BERKELEY - (an opinion piece for COR by Fred Walter)Item: A 22-year-old restaurant employee---three years over voting age---using an industrial-sized Cuisinart decides, despite his manager's specific instructions to the contrary, to push clogged food through the machine's blades without turning it off and without wearing any of the three Kevlar gloves within arm's reach. He loses parts of two fingers. Cal-OSHA issues citations to the employer. The employee petitions the Workers' Compensation Appe
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