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MINING and energy-related industries show slightly less incidence of referrals for work-related back injuries to rehabilitation providers compared with other manual handling-orientated industries like healthcare and construction.

Andrew Snelling
Back injury referrals are surprisingly less common in mining than other industries, but referral times are longer.

Back injury referrals are surprisingly less common in mining than other industries, but referral times are longer.

This is according to a report issued by private sector provider of organisational health and risk management solutions, Konekt. A survey of 113,425 referrals to the rehabilitation provider, which is...

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