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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Sterling Plumbing Group, Inc.
Lead-inspection warrant and citations upheld
A state health department referred reports that Sterling employees had blood-lead levels above OSHA's medical-removal threshold. After Sterling denied entry, OSHA obtained a warrant and cited lead-standard and recordkeeping violations. The Commission held that the warrant application contained…
Thermal Reduction Corporation
Review vacated after failure to comply with Commission orders
Thermal Reduction Corporation repeatedly failed to file required corporate-ownership information and current contact information for its representative. It also failed to respond to the Commission's show-cause order. The Commission therefore vacated the direction for review and made the ALJ's…
Caterpillar Tractor Co.
Lead-standard case resolved by settlement
OSHA cited Caterpillar under several provisions of the occupational lead standard at a gray-iron foundry. Caterpillar challenged the standard's promulgation, while the Secretary argued that Caterpillar was bound by an earlier court decision involving a trade association of which it was a member…
Metal Bank of America, Inc.
Lead-standard case settled for $2,500
OSHA cited Metal Bank for serious violations of the lead standard and proposed a $4,280 penalty. An earlier stipulation withdrew parts of the citation and reduced the proposed penalty for the remaining items to $3,000. Under the final settlement, Metal Bank withdrew its contest and petition for…
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review, an ALJ decision becomes a final order under 29 U.S.C. § 661(j): it binds the parties in that case but is not binding precedent in other cases.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.