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EXCERPTS FROM THE WISCONSIN STATE STATUTES Section 101.01 Definition of employment and places or employment. The phrase "place of employment" shall mean and include ever place. whether indoors or out or undergrrnmd and the premises appurtenant thereto where either temporarily or permanently any industry, Dade or business is carried on, or "here any process or operation, directly or indirectly related to any industry, trade or business is carried on, and where any person is directly or indirectly, cmploycd by another for direct or indirect gain or profit, but shall not include any place where persons are employed in ta) private domestic service which does not involve the use of mechanical power or (h) farm labor when the employer is the farmer operating the farm and the labor is such as is customarily performed as part of farming, and including the transportation of farm products immediately and directly from the farm_ and of materials, supplies or equipment directly to the farm for use thereon Section 101.11 Employer's duty to furnish safe employment and place. Every employer shall furnish employment which shall he safe for the employes therrein and shall furnish a place of emplovment which shall be safe for employes therein and for trequcnters thereof and shall furnish and use safety devices and safeguards, and shall adopt and use methods and processes reasonably adequate to render such employment and places of employment safe, and shall do every other thin¢ reasonably necessap to protect the lite health, safety and welfare of such employes and frequenters. Section 101.11 (2) Employes not to meddle with safeguards. No employe shall remove, displace, damage, destroy or carry off any safety devise or safeguard furnished or provided for use in any employment or place of employment, nor interfere in any way with the use thereof by any person, nor shall any such employe interfere in any way with the use thereof by any person, nor shall any such employe interfere with the use of any method or process adopted for the protection of any employe in such employment or place of employment or frequenter of such place of employment, nor fail or neglect to do every other thing reasonably necessary to protect the life, health, safety or welfare of such employes or frequenters. Section 101.02 Penalty for violations. If any employer, employe, owner or other person shall violate any provisions of Sections 101.01 to 101.03, inclusive, of the Statutes, or shall do any act prohibited by the commission, for which no penalty has been specifically provided. or shall fail, neglect or refuse to obey any lawful order given or made by the commission, or any judgment or decree made by any court in connection with the provisions of Section 101.01 to 101.29, inclusive, for each such violation, failure or refusal, such employer, employe, owner or other person shall forfeit and pay into the state treasury a sum not less than ten dollars or more than one hundred dollars for each such offense.