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Pollution-fatality link rejected by workplace tribunal
An appeals commission has dismissed a bid for death benefits by the family of a worker who died from a heart attack while making a delivery. It upheld a previous ruling that there was insufficient scientific evidence linking workplace pollution to the worker's death.
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