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The Commission of Social Reforms was established in december 1883 as the first spanish official institution to take charge of the study and to offer solutions to the so called social question. The objectives of this study are to describe and analyse the information about occupational injuries and safety conditions of working-class population in Spain at the end of XIX century.
The study methods of the Commission of Social Reforms were based on the current scientific advances at that epoch, coming from the development of the Sociology, essential for a scientific knowledge about the real situation of society. A total of 48 County level Commissions and 29 Local Commissions were set up. A questionaire was designed and organized in 32 sections  including a total of  223 questions. Section V was called  disabled from work and included 10 open-ended questions related with occupational health and safety. A content analysis of the questions was performed.  
Some of the preliminary data of this research showed that the safety conditions of factories, workshops, brickwork  industry, were quite deficient with a permanent exposition to injuries all around the differents counties in Spain. As an example, a situation in the heavy industry is described as follows:  there is a lack of clear space and a machinery accumulation that not allow to walk around; there are not scaffolds or devices for handling the mechanisms without risk; in many places children are in charge of the machinery care and inspection.

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