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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Jersey City Medical Center
Electrical-safety and willful training violations affirmed
A Jersey City Medical Center maintenance mechanic received an electric shock while working on a 277-volt light fixture, fell from a ladder, and later died from his injuries. OSHA cited the hospital for failing to deenergize live parts, use electrical lockout/tagout procedures, maintain compliant…
Ford Motor Company
Electrical-safety settlement approved
The Commission approved a settlement resolving the remaining electrical-safety items from an OSHA inspection of Ford. The parties allowed the judge's vacatur of two deenergization items and the affirmed serious findings on three electrical-work and protective-equipment items to become final, while…
Hospitality Management, Inc., d/b/a Executive Inn
Serious electrical violation affirmed after a maintenance worker was electrocuted
Hospitality Management ran the Executive Inn hotel in Atlanta, Georgia. OSHA inspected after a referral from the Fulton County Fire Department and cited the company for a serious violation of the electrical safety standard at 29 C.F.R. § 1910.333(a)(1), which requires live parts to be deenergized…
General Cutlery Co., Inc.
Knife maker loses on almost every safety and health citation, including a willful hazard-communication violation
General Cutlery makes bayonets and household knives in Fremont, Ohio. After complaint inspections in May 1994, OSHA issued two sets of citations, later consolidated: safety violations (Docket No. 94-2015) and health violations (Docket No. 94-1933). The company, represented by its president, argued…
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.