WORKPLACE INJURY Employers Not Necessarily at Fault Where an Everyday Accident Occurs in the Workplace
A stable employee working in a racehorse trainer’s premises injured his back while emptying a wheelbarrow of horse dung into a dung heap. He claimed that the injury occurred while he was emptying a wheelbarrow on an upward incline of soiled hay while at work at the employer’s stables. The plaintiff/appellant had been tasked with filling 10–15 wheelbarrows of soiled hay from the horseboxes and then emptying those wheelbarrows into a dung heap each day. He was asked to throw l
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