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*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/>
*1861 "TARBET’S DINGLE - ACCIDENT UPON THE SEVERN VALLEY RAILWAY.—On Saturday morning last a man employed on [[Coalport Brick & Tile Works Siding|these works, where there is a considerable slope]], had his thigh broken by a fall of earth. He was carried, we believe, to Bridgnorth Infirmary."<ref>Eddows’s Shrewsbury Journal 29 May 1861, via Broseley Local History Society</ref>
*1861 "IRONBRIDGE - FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Friday last a boy named Evans, son of Thomas Evans, of the Little Ferry, near Benthall Edge, met with his death under the following circumstances :—Deceased, who was a boy eight or nine years old, had got upon a truck on the Severn Valley Railway, loaded with limestone, and which tips on its side. It appears that he lay upon the board which lifts up and down upon a hinge, and his weight overbalancing the carnage he turned the load over upon himself. When extricated from under it he was quite dead and much mutilated."<ref name=ESJ2509>Eddows’s Shrewsbury Journal 25 September 1861, via Broseley Local History Society</ref>
