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Surgery deemed unreasonable and unsafe, under injury Act, for amputee worker

A high-risk operation described as an injured worker's "only shot at ever walking again" is not a reasonably necessary treatment that his employer must pay for, a commission has found, after hearing the procedure would probably fail and could kill the man.

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