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At age 23 Dobbins begins work at the Monfort Slaughterhouse in the shipping Department.
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Dobbins injurs himself at work, later finding ou that he had a pair of severly herniated disks in his lower back, causing him to have surgery and take a mont off of work
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Due to cleaning the slaughterhouse without wearing protective gear, Dobbins spends a month in the hospital after suffering from overexposure to chlorine.
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Dobbins was struck by a train after becoming disoriented at work and suffered injuries to his feet and face.
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Dobbins saves a fellow worker at the slaughterhouse from being killed by a machine that was not yet fully powered off.
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Dobbins breaks his leg stepping in a hole in the floor at the slaughterhouse.
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Dobbins shatteres his ankle one day while working in the slaughterhouse
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Dobbins suffers a severe heart attack at work and is rushed to the hospital.
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Dobbins is fired from his job at the slaughterhouse after almost 16 years of loyalty to a company that repeatedly mistreated him.
"Once strong and powerfully built, [Dobbins] now walks with difficulty, tires easily, and feels useless, as though his life is over. He is forty five years old."
