Michael Legel wrote:

> No employer NEEDS employees to lift heavy things ... employers NEED to
> provide safe means to lift heavy things so that employees don't injure
> themselves. Sacrificing one's health is never needed to be employed.
>
Define "heavy"... cause a preschool teacher may certainly need to be
able to pick up a 50 pound kid when they fall off the swingset. A
cashier most certainly will be hauling a case of beers down the conveyer
belt and lift them into the shopping cart. My turning a bedbound patient
certainly can be labor intensive. That isn't too much to expect, but
this OP certainly is expecting that the heaviest thing he or she picks
up is a paycheck.
There are two sides of every story, and I suspect we've only heard on
very prejudiced version.