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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 hazard of falling from and/or with an inadequately secured elevated work platform that had made contact with an overhead steel beam obstruction while being positioned by a powered industrial truck: (a)Row 41 In Warehouse Distribution Facility - An employee, who was performing work activities, fell approximately twenty-five (25) feet when the work platform was pulled off the forks because it was not adequately secured to the lift truck and had made contact with an overhead steel beam obstruction, on or about November 20, 2002. Among other methods, one feasible and acceptable method to correct this hazard is to adequately identify and mark overhead obstructions and train employees to avoid overhead hazards, in a ccordance with ANSI/ASME B56.1 (2000), Section 4.17.3(j), while operating powered industrial equipment. VERIFICATION REQUIREDTION