Lockout Tagout
- Approximately 3 million workers service equipment and face the
greatest risk of injury if lockout/tagout is not properly implemented.
Compliance with the lockout/tagout standard (29 CFR 1910.147)
prevents an estimated 120 fatalities and 50,000 injuries each year.
Workers injured on the job from exposure to hazardous energy lose an
average of 24 workdays for recuperation. In a study conducted by the
United Auto Workers (UAW), 20% of the fatalities (83 of 414) that
occurred among their members between 1973 and 1995 were attributed to
inadequate hazardous energy control procedures specifically,
lockout/tagout procedures.
