SECTIONS 7770-7771 - California Statutes

LABOR CODE

SECTION 7770-7771

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.

7771. Every person having charge of any steam boiler, steam engine,
or other apparatus for generating or employing steam, used in any
manufactory, railroad, vessel, or other mechanical works, who
willfully, or from ignorance or 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
the death of a human being is caused, is punishable by imprisonment
in the state prison for two, three, or four years.