News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Mining Review 11th Year

Issue

Issue No.

10

Date Released

Jun 1958

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. LIFE-SAVERS
• 2. COAL FOR STEEL
• 3. RINGSIDE

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 3

Summary

BFI synopsis: Divisional Ambulance contest at Grassmoor, Derbyshire
NCB Commentary - Even in the best run collieries accidents will happen.
This may not be serious but it does require the attention of trained first-aid men.
At all collieries volunteer first-aid crews are essential components of the safety organisation.
First-aid men practise constantly. The spur of competition against other teams helps to keep them at the peak of their form.
At Grassmoor Training Centre, such a competition took place recently.
Volunteer casualties, youngsters like these, report to be made up as the victims of accidents.
The deft hands of first-aid make-up artists transform healthy boys in a matter of minutes into stretcher cases.
Here come the walking wounded!
The public are invited to one of the training galleries at Grassmoor to watch the senior competition for the Wright Shield.
Inside they find that two men have been trapped by runaway tubs.
The first team moves in to sort out the damage. One man is supposed to have a compound fracture of the right femur with severe haemorrhage.
All that they know about the second man is that he is unconscious.
Under the eyes of the doctor, the team swing into action.
They must explain the reason for every move they make.
Teams competing for the Wright Shield also have to pass individual oral and practical tests.
In the hushed training gallery, onlookers make their own assessment of the teams’ skills.
Prize-winning time and the first winners.
Awards were given by E. S. Mosley, Divisional Industrial Relations officer.
Clipstone Colliery took the Portland Shield for a team aged under 21.
The Wright Shield for senior first-aid men went to Ollerton Colliery.
The men of the East Midlands move on to the National Finals in Blackpool.

Researcher Comments

Commentary recorded 5th May 1958.

Keywords

Health and medicine; Competitions; Emergency services; Youth

Locations

Derbyshire; England; Grassmore

Written sources

British Film Institute Databases   Used for synopsis
The National Archives COAL 32   /12 Scripts for Mining Review, 1956-1960

Credits:

Production Co.

Documentary Technicians Alliance

Sponsor

National Coal Board