AGENCY: Labor Commission. Industrial Accident Division
SERIES: 7159
TITLE: Workers' compensation case files
DATES: 1950-
ARRANGEMENT: Numerical by case number.
DESCRIPTION: These files document an employee's injuries, 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
Permanent. Retain for 100 year(s)
DISPOSITION
Transfer to Archives.
RETENTION AND DISPOSITION AUTHORIZATION
Retention and disposition for this series is authorized by Archives general schedule Worker's compensation case files, GRS-1938
AUTHORIZED: 06/17/2013
FORMAT MANAGEMENT
Paper: Retain in State Records Center for 100 years and then transfer to State Archives.
Microfilm master: Retain in State Archives permanently.
Microfilm duplicate: Retain in State Archives permanently.
APPRAISAL
Administrative Historical
These records have a secondary historical value. Information in them will be of interest to family historians.
PRIMARY DESIGNATION
Private. UCA 63G-2-302 1(b)(f) (2008)
SECONDARY DESIGNATION
Public. Commission Orders
Controlled. UCA 63G-2-304(1) (2008)Psychiatric and Psychological Data