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*1859 "STEALING RABBITS.—Joseph Smith and Peter Young, two navvies, were charged with stealing two tame rabbits, on Sunday night last, the property of Mr. George Fowler. There being no evidence against Smith, he was discharged. Young, when asked if he had anything to say, replied, "he had a good deal, but if he could not do a person any good, he would do them no harm." He pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to fourteen days' hard labour.-Joseph Smith, the man charged with stealing the rabbits in the foregoing case, was charged with stealing a quantity of timber, and horse rug and various sacks, the property of Mr. Thomas Brassey, contractor for the Severn Valley Railway. Inspector Stanton stated that on searching Smith's house he found this property. Smith had nothing to say in his defence, but pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to one month's hard labour."<ref>[https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000350/18591116/036/0004 Worcestershire Chronicle - Wednesday 16 November 1859]</ref>
*1860 On 23 January a labourer at [[Mount Pleasant Tunnel]] lost an eye and part of his nose when a large piece of timber fell on him.<ref name=BWJ>Berrow's Worcester Journal, reported in [[Bibliography#Books|Marshall (1989)]] p. 47.</ref>
*1861 On 9 January 1861 in a cutting south of [[Mount Pleasant Tunnel]], a navvy was killed when a blast hurled rocks at his head. The ganger was instructed to ensure that men were withdrawn to a safe distance before blasting.<ref name=BWJ/>
*1861 On 9 March a navvy was injured in the [[Eyemore Cutting|cutting south of Victoria Bridge]] when a 20lb clod of earth fell on him from a height of 20-40ft. He was taken to Bewdley in a fishing boat and 'immediately placed under the care of Dr Webster'. A few days later a navvy was almost killed in a cutting at [[Arley]] when three wagon loads of earth fell on him.<ref name=BWJ/>
*1876 "Two workmen have been killed and two seriously injured through a great fall of earth in [[Bewdley Tunnel|a new railway tunnel near Bewdley]]"<ref>[https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000250/18760318/010/0002 Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Saturday 18 March 1876]</ref>
