California · Labor Code

LAB §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 w

Felony

What this law says, in plain English

An engineer or operator of steam equipment in manufacturing or railways who willfully, through ignorance, or by gross neglect causes excessive steam pressure resulting in equipment failure or accidents endangering human life commits a felony.

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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.

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