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29 CFR 1910.147(c)(1): Energy control program. The employer shall establish a program consisting of energy control procedures, employee training and periodic inspections to ensure that before any employee performs any servicing or maintenance on a machine or equipment where the unexpected energizing, startup or release of stored energy could occur and cause injury, the machine or equipment shall be isolated from the energy source and rendered inoperative. On or about 24 July 2019, the employer did not establish an energy control (lockout/tagout) program consisting of energy control procedures, employee training and periodic inspections to ensure that before any employee performed any servicing or maintenance, the machine would be isolated and rendered inoperable. Employees were exposed to caught-in hazards likely to result in crushing and/or amputation injury from unexpected energizing, start-up or release of stored energy from various production equipment, such as the air compressor and V.I.S. machine. Abatement documentation is required for this item in accordance with 29 CFR 1903.19(d)