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Loosen up, highway workers!
All Virginia Department of Transportation workers must start their workday with five minutes of stretching exercises, said Ron Marshall, VDOT supervisor in Washington. The exercises are mandatory and state-wide, he said.
The Department has “had so many accidents from muscle pulls and strains that they want everybody to loosen up before beginning work,” he added.
Marshall explained that 30 percent of VDOT’s workmen’s compensation claims are from pulled muscles, and the stretching program is designed to reduce this rate. He
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