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D1920 - National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) Derbyshire Area - 1867-2015
2 - Area Compensation Department - 1906-1997
1 - Local Appeal Tribunals - 1948-1985
7 - Local Appeal Tribunals 1958 A-Z - 1958
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Archive Reference / Library Class No.
D1920/2/1/7/42
Title
Local Appeal Tribunal case file for Frederick Benjamin Hagin, aged 70, Paddy car attendant at Westthorpe
Date
1958
Description
Date of birth:
Marital status: Married
Address: Meadow House, Sheffield Road, Killamarsh
Type of benefit claimed: Special Hardship Allowance
Type of injury: Injury - finger
Further information: Appeal heard and adjourned for supporting medical evidence on 14 August 1958. Notes from a telephone message say: 'The Pit manager says he is unfit for work in the pit'. Letter from Westthorpe NUM Branch Secretary asks for impact of a previous shoulder injury in 1955 to be taken into account with a comment: '(Mr Hagin had to pay the Doctor at the hospital 7/6d for the information)'. Medical board report stated claimant was able to perform all the following: write, pick up a pen, dress and undress, tie his tie, lace his shoes, put his hand behind his head/ back / to his mouth, open a door, reach up a wall to the normal height. Claimant's grounds of appeal included: 'it is necessary on this job to use signals which are 6ft high. [...] In pit work it is required for a lamp to be carrie [...] but there are not any one handed jobs. [...] P.S. I am going away for two weeks on July 17 1958 (convalesant)''. By 1 May 1958 Hagin had retired.
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Derbyshire Record Office
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National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) Derbyshire Area
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