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29 CFR 1915.159(d): Affected employees were not trained so that they could demonstrate the proper use, inspection, and storage of their fall arrest equipment. a) On Board the USNS Red Cloud in Bayonne Dry Dock, Bayonne, NJ and at the Corporate Offices at 331 River Mews Lane, Edgewater, NJ. The foreman overseeing the laborers who were to inspect and paint an anchor chain locker was not provided training on fall arrest equipment as he rigged up a vertical rope lifeline at the chain locker with multiple knots at the anchorage point and along the course of the rope which weakened this lifeline exposing workers to fall hazards of up to 33 feet in height to the base of the chain locker below. Violation observed on or about 04/19/2020.