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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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St. Joe Resources Company
Medical-removal back pay remanded for calculation
St. Joe transferred employees with elevated blood lead levels to jobs with less lead exposure. OSHA cited the company under the lead standard's medical removal protection provision, which required the transferred employees to retain their earnings, rights, and benefits. The Fifth Circuit held that…
Amax Lead Company of Missouri
Medical-removal back pay remanded for calculation
Amax transferred employees with elevated blood lead levels to jobs with less lead exposure. OSHA cited the company under the lead standard's medical removal protection provision, which required the transferred employees to retain their earnings, rights, and benefits. The Fifth Circuit held that the…
East Penn Manufacturing Company
Overtime rule changed, but citation vacated for fair notice
East Penn voluntarily removed a pregnant employee from lead exposure and initially continued both her base wages and expected overtime. After the Commission ruled in an earlier case that lead medical-removal benefits did not include overtime, East Penn stopped the overtime payments. The Commission…
ASARCO, Inc.
Lead medical-removal benefits include lost overtime
ASARCO transferred employees from lead-exposed jobs after blood tests showed excessive lead levels. The company maintained regular pay but did not pay overtime the employees would have earned in their normal positions. An ALJ vacated OSHA's citation under then-existing Commission precedent. The…
St. Joe Resources Company
Lead benefits violation affirmed, Commission divided on back pay
St. Joe transferred a zinc-smelter employee with an elevated blood lead level to a lower-exposure job. The company maintained his base hourly rate but did not pay scheduled overtime, shift differentials, or voluntary overtime he would have had an opportunity to work as a weighman. Following a Fifth…
Amax Lead Company of Missouri
Lead removal violation reclassified as serious for $60
Amax transferred six employees away from high lead exposure and continued their regular hourly rates for 40-hour weeks. The employees lost opportunities for overtime and no longer had paid lunch periods, although their total daily paid hours remained unchanged. Following a Fifth Circuit ruling, 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.