| Description | Date of birth:
Marital status: Married
Address: 14 Victoria Terrace, Tibshelf
Type of benefit claimed: Special Hardship Allowance
Type of injury: Injury - thumb
Further information: Insurance officer: 'When a person returns to his regular occupation, but because of the relevant loss of faculty works at it more slowly, or for fewer hours, or less productively, or omits some part of the occupation which he used to p erform, it may be possible to regard him as incapable of following his regular occupation'. Claimant's accident was January 1956 and Medical Boards assessed loss of faculty from 15 per cent initially down to 2 per cent for life in March 1957. Since October 1956 claimant had been working in his regular occupation. earnings evidence included, but stated; 'I am doing my pre-accident occupation to the best of my ability but cannot carry it out in its entrety it is not possible for me to do any overtime'. NUM representative said:'Claimant is[...] unable to do pick work above his head, or hold a boring machine above his head [...] Management will not let him deal with apprentices. [...] can only do work because his mates help him out with work he cannot do'. |