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Determined to RTW

Heather Millar, writer, WorkCover

A truck driver with a recurring knee injury doesn't let setbacks keep him out of the cabin in this SA case study

Interstate truck driver and former farmer Neil Burbidge is a man who likes to keep busy. After 40 years of working hard, he wasn’t about to let a knee injury slow him down for long. He worked hard to get moving again, and is now happy to be back on the job.    It was dead calm the day Neil was injured at the wool store in Port Adelaide. He was unhooking the ratchet straps over the wool bales on the back of his truck wh...

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Published 28 June, 2010 | Updated 20 May, 2014