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Section 5(a)(1) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970: The employer did not furnish employment and a place of employment which were free from recognized hazards that were causing or likely to cause death or serious physical harm to employees, in that, employees were exposed to the hazards of falling down the hoistway shaft when the elevator car was not in the landing zone, being struck by the elevator car when the car was entering or leaving the landing zone, or having part of their body caught between the moving elevator and the hoistway. A feasible and useful method to correct this hazard, among other methods, is to provide elevator hoistway landing doors or gates that are interlocked to prohibit the doors or gates from being able to be opened unless the elevator car is stopped and in the landing zone: (a) Storage Area: The freight elevator was not provided with interlocks on its doors, or equivalent protection, to prevent employees from being exposed to the moving car and the hoistway shaft.