The Court dismissed a worker's personal injury claim arising from a back injury sustained while delivering whitegoods, finding that the employer did not breach its duty of care by providing a standard trolley rather than a stair-climbing trolley, and that in any event the plaintiff's contributory negligence in accepting employment he knew he was medically unfit to perform would have defeated the claim, and the damages would have been nil after statutory refunds.
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