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Labor Code § 7770

CHAPTER 6. Mismanagement of Steam Boilers

Current as of September 28, 2026Lab. Code, § 7770Official source ↗

Added by Stats. 1945, Ch. 1142.

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.