Connecting industrial records to help reconstruct work histories
We connect historical records by workplace, time period, job, task and material so readers can follow the original sources.
Industrial evidence streams
Vehicle maintenance
Brake servicing, garages, bus maintenance and work-practice evidence.
Paper mills
Steam, heat-exchanger, insulation and abandoned-mill records.
Negative evidence
Surveys where asbestos was not detected or a hazard was not confirmed—preserved with time and scope.
Work activities
OSHA task categories translate broad job titles into maintenance events.
Historical company and facility names
Historical aliases stabilize facility identity before factual relationships are attached.
Finding archival records
Ship + yard + era memories translated into National Archives research coordinates.
How the research connects
The H&S Resource Center scales by reusing evidence relationships rather than duplicating prose. A single NIOSH survey can contribute information about a facility, occupation, task, measurement, time period and source. Those relationships can answer multiple questions while preserving one provenance trail.
How sources are reviewed
Search broadly; publish narrowly. Research may begin with incomplete names, possible connections or unanswered questions. Public records require a source that actually supports the displayed proposition, and the scope of that source stays attached to the claim.