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Labor Code - LAB
DIVISION 5 - SAFETY IN EMPLOYMENT
PART 6 - TANKS AND BOILERS
CHAPTER 6 - Mismanagement of Steam Boilers
Section 7770.
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CA Labor Code § 7770 (2022)
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7770. Every engineer or other person having charge of any steam-boiler, steam-engine, or other apparatus for generating or employing steam, used in any manufactory, railway, or other mechanical works, who wilfully, or from ignorance or from gross neglect, creates, or allows to be created, such an undue quantity of steam as to burst or break the boiler, engine or apparatus, or to cause any other accident whereby human life is endangered, is guilty of a felony.
(Added by Stats. 1945, Ch. 1142.)
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