Albany Steel, Inc., Albany, N.Y.

The employer is contesting a three-item serious citation in four parts and a penalty of $17,746. The serious citation includes the alleged violations of 29 C.F.R. 1910.147(c)(4)(i), for failure to develop, document, and utilize procedures for the control of potentially hazardous energy when employees were engaged in activities covered by this section; 29 C.F.R. 1910.147(d)(4)(i), for failure to ensure lockout or tagout devices were affixed to each energy isolating device by authorized employees; and 29 C.F.R. 1910.147(f)(1)(ii), for failure, in situations in which lockout or tagout devices must be temporarily removed from the energy isolating device and the machine or ...