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| Archive Reference / Library Class No. | D1920/2/2/9/43 |
| Title | Medical Appeal Tribunal case file for Walter Wilson, aged 52, Packer at Coppice No. 3, relating to an Industrial Accident |
| Date | 1951 |
| Description | Date of birth: 13/10/1898
Marital status: Not given
Address: 11 The Meadows, Heanor
Type of injury: Injury - back
Description of accident: Whilst packing he slipped and strained back
Further information: A small handwritten note states 'Surgical Specialists Report […] dated 4/7/51 have not been made available to c/t.' The claimant's appeal against the decision of 16 April 1951 states 'great Loss of Wages, a greater Discomforts of life […] will this disablement get wors as I grow older.' The claimant's description of the accident on 16 May 1951 according to the Initial medical report states 'I was crushed (pinned) between a bar and pans which I was crawling over which caused a wrenched Back Muscle and a hernia developed on left side.' An orthopaedic specialist's report is included dated 30 May 1951. The tribunal upheld the decision of 20 per cent disablement for life on 8 August 1951. |
| Extent | 1 file |
| Level | File |
| Repository | Derbyshire Record Office |
| Archive Creator | National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) Derbyshire Area |