Serious safety infraction warrants termination

The worker had long service and was trained in the safe operation of equipment, but chose to operate a machine with the guard removed. The company was entitled to escalate the discipline it assessed him because it had signaled that it would deal with violations severely.

Observed performing manual tasks at his station with the guard removed from his machine, an operator at a heavy industrial plant was terminated.

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