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Court reinstates mineworker with "malignant obesity"
An appeal court has reinstated a coal mineworker who failed a medical assessment after a doctor deemed he was permanently unfit for work due to a "significant and foreseeable risk of sudden incapacity", based solely on his statistical analysis of the worker's unhealthy BMI.
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