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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Wyman-Gordon Company
Record-access items become final under appellate settlement
The Secretary appealed part of the Commission's December 1991 Wyman-Gordon decision to the First Circuit. During the appeal, Wyman-Gordon agreed to withdraw its contest to three instances alleging violations of the employee-record-access standard. Those citation portions became final orders by…
Wyman-Gordon Company
Access ordered to medical and workplace health records
The widows of two former Wyman-Gordon aircraft-parts employees authorized a law firm to request exposure records, medical records, and workplace health analyses concerning their late husbands. The Commission held that legal representatives of deceased employees could exercise record-access rights…
General Motors Corporation, Electro-Motive Division
Record-access violations affirmed, willfulness reversed
General Motors denied three employee requests for medical and exposure records because the employees had pending Illinois workers' compensation claims. The Commission held that the access requirements in 29 C.F.R. § 1910.20 did not supersede or alter state workers' compensation law and did not…
Johnson & Johnson Products, Inc., & Ethicon, Inc.
Exposure-record access items vacated
Five employees authorized a law firm to obtain their medical records for workers' compensation or occupational disease claims. The firm also requested employee exposure records, but the written authorizations referred only to medical information. The Commission held that, outside 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review, an ALJ decision becomes a final order under 29 U.S.C. § 661(j): it binds the parties in that case but is not binding precedent in other cases.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.