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Appeals court overturns no-liability finding over injury involving inexperienced operator

A worker's action in throwing a heavy object at an unlicensed plant operator was not the sole cause of the machine striking and injuring the worker, an appeals court has ruled in ordering the machine's owner to pay him damages.

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