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Work system apparently unsafe, but damages bid defeated by multiple plausible scenarios
An employer's work system that required workers to step up onto a platform up to 80 times a day would have involved a breach of duty if an employee had been able to prove the system caused his injuries, a court has found in a case with a seizure and a fall.
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