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Description: | This file contains material relating to a compensation claim by a worker in the tool room at Joseph Sankey & Sons Ltd Albert Street Works who received injuries while fitting machinery in February 1948. Papers consist of accident report forms and handwritten and typescript witness statements of colleagues which provide details about the events leading up to the accident and the nature of the worker's injuries; correspondence between the Director and Secretary of Joseph Sankey & Sons Ltd and the Trade Employers Insurance Association Limited relating to the claim which includes information about tests undertaken on the machinery involved in the accident; and correspondence between Joseph Sankey & Sons Ltd and Haynes Duffell & Son, the Birmingham solicitors firm that the Trade Employers Insurance Association instructed to deal with the claim on the firm's behalf. This correspondence largely relates to the particulars of the case, including the nature of the machinery and other equipment involved in the accident, the injured workers' pre-accident and post-accident earnings, and the report of the Safety Officer concerning the claim. The correspondence also discusses the availability of witnesses from the Albert Street Works to attend court at Birmingham during the summer of 1951 and the eventual postponement of the case until October that year. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Archives | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Archives | Temporal: | 1948-1951 | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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