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| Archive Reference / Library Class No. | D1920/2/2/52/21 |
| Title | Medical Appeal Tribunal case file for Samuel Draper, aged 68, Miner Labourer at Cossall, relating to an Industrial Accident |
| Date | 1956 |
| Description | Date of birth: 27/04/1888
Marital status: Married
Address: 40 Cliff Boulevard, Kimberley
Type of injury: Injury - foot
Description of accident: Cleaning up on screens and dirt fell from belt
Further information: Several handwritten letters from Draper including one of February 1958 saying: 'I went in [hospital] for Double Pneumonia[…] was exrayed six times and they found traces and symptoms of Dust'. Reply: 'I am sorry to hear that you are suspected of suffering from pneumoconiosis. The position regarding how to make claims for this disease has now changed from [...] the old Workmen's Compensation Act and the claim now has to be made under the National Insurance Industrial Injuries Act'. Then: 'I was [...] examined by two Doctors they said that I had got pneumoconiosis only slight so they have turned my claim down'. |
| Extent | 1 file |
| Level | File |
| Repository | Derbyshire Record Office |
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| Archive Creator | National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) Derbyshire Area |