Federal agency decisions, searchable in plain English.
Workplace-safety cases from the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHRC) and mine-safety cases from the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission (FMSHRC), each with a plain-English summary, the standards it cites, and whether it counts as precedent. More agencies are coming.
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Integra Health Management, Inc.
Workplace violence citation affirmed
Integra sent service coordinators to meet clients in homes, vehicles, shelters, and other community settings, including clients with mental illness and histories of violence. A service coordinator was killed during a meeting with a client who had a violent history. The Commission held that…
The Davey Tree Surgery Company
Logging items vacated and $300 reporting penalty affirmed
A Davey Tree employee was fatally struck during tree removal in a utility right-of-way. Following Commission precedent in companion Davey Tree cases, the judge found the work was line clearance rather than logging, so the logging standard did not apply. The evidence also showed training on tree…
J. Cook Enterprises, Inc.
Fall-protection citations vacated because employment relationship was not proven
OSHA cited J. Cook Enterprises after a residential framing worker fell 11.5 feet and died. The items alleged inadequate jobsite inspections, lack of residential fall protection, and failure to report the fatality within eight hours. The central issue was whether J. Cook Enterprises employed the…
Home Depot #6512
Fatality-reporting citation vacated for lack of proof that the death was work-related
A Home Depot parking lot associate was found incoherent under a truck at work and died two days later from blunt head trauma, with other medical conditions contributing. OSHA cited Home Depot for not reporting the death within eight hours as required for a death from a work-related incident. The…
What these documents are
- Commission decisions: Rulings by the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission itself, the highest level of agency review. These are citable as Commission precedent, though a decision may have been appealed to a U.S. Court of Appeals after issuance.
- ALJ decisions: Rulings by OSHRC Administrative Law Judges after a hearing. When no Commissioner directs review, an ALJ decision becomes a final order under 29 U.S.C. § 661(j): it binds the parties in that case but is not binding precedent in other cases.
- Why finality matters: Every page here says which kind of decision you are reading, so you know whether it is precedent you can cite or a final order that only shows how one judge ruled on one set of facts.
- Where they come from: Every page links the official OSHRC public release, and the full text on the page is that release. The plain-English summaries are written by Ezel.