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Risk of paper lift foreseeable, injured worker wins $240K

The Queensland Supreme Court has upheld a District Court decision and awarded $240,000 in damages to a secretary who was injured lifting a box of paper, after it rejected her employer's claim the lift was an "ordinary task".

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