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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: (a) The hazard of being struck or squeezed by an elephant on or about December 15, 1992, while removing the elephant leg chains. One feasible and acceptable abatement method, among others, to correct these hazard(s) would be to enforce and establish the following procedures: 1) Enforce policy requiring daily entries in the zookeeper daily report when there is a change in temperament or behavior of elephant. 2) Enforce policy requiring written evaluation by the Elephant Management Committee when incidents occur because of change in termperament or behavior of elephant. 3) Establish written procedures for evaluating performance of elephant handlers.