AGENCY: Workers' Compensation Fund Division
SERIES: 1005
TITLE: Personal injury claims case files
DATES: 1939-1980.
ARRANGEMENT: Alphanumerical.
DESCRIPTION: These files document an employee's injury/ies, eligibility for workmen's compensation benefits, and any further legal or medical actions. Information includes employers' first reports of injuries, physicians' medical and surgical reports, medical correspondence and bills, insurance documents, and legal forms needing responses. Files may also include silicosis reports, X-rays, psychiatric reports, correspondence from relatives, divorce decrees, adoption papers, savings account information, assets of applicants and family members, bankruptcy reports, and commission orders. Records include forms, first report of injury, reports, correspondence, and related medical and investigative records regarding on-the-job injuries, whether or not a claim for compensation was made. See Utah Code 34A-2 for Worker's Compensation Act.
RETENTION
Retain for 75 year(s)
DISPOSITION
Destroy.
RETENTION AND DISPOSITION AUTHORIZATION
Retention and disposition for this series is authorized by Archives general schedule Worker's compensation case files, GRS-1938
AUTHORIZED: 07/08/2014
FORMAT MANAGEMENT
Paper: For records beginning in 1917 through 1945. Retain in State Archives permanently with authority to weed.
Paper: For records beginning in 1946 and continuing to the present. Retain in State Records Center for 75 years and then destroy provided sampling is done.
APPRAISAL
Administrative Legal
These records have a legal value as they are maintained in accordance with UCA 34A-2-420.
PRIMARY DESIGNATION
Private. UCA 63G-2-302 1(b)(f) (2008)
SECONDARY DESIGNATION
Controlled. UCA 63G-2-304(1) (2008)