Hewitt v. L.E. Myers Co.

*200Lundberg Stratton, J.

{¶ 1} We are asked to decide whether “equipment safety guard” for purposes of R.C. 2745.01(C) includes only those devices on a machine that shield an employee from injury by guarding the point of operation of that machine and whether the “deliberate removal” of such an “equipment safety guard” occurs when an employer makes a deliberate decision to lift, push aside, take off, or otherwise eliminate that guard from the machine.

{¶2} For the reasons that follow, we hold that as used in R.C. 2745.01(C), “equipment safety guard” means a device designed to shield the operator…