La sicurezza nelle miniere sarde tra Otto e Novecento: cosa ci raccontano le statistiche

The interpretation provided by the historiography in the field of security in Sardinian mines in the Italy of the second industrial revolution is darkened, an interpretation that makes the mine a very insecure place, marked by a dripping of tragedies and fatal accidents. Nevertheless, the above reading does not appear to be fully justified by the available statistical data which, on the contrary, allows us to advance the thesis that, starting from the beginning of the 1980s up until 1910, the number of deaths by accident in the Sardinian mines in relation to the mining population has been below the national average.