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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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Bethlehem Fabricators, Inc.
Spray-booth citation vacated for lack of hazard proof
Bethlehem Fabricators spray painted steel girders in an unenclosed area of its fabrication plant. The inspector did not test the combustible lead-primer paint or its fumes, while later industrial-hygiene testing presented by the employer found no hazardous level of lead or solvent vapor. The…
Omni-Metal Castings, Inc.
Foundry air-contaminant, ventilation, and liquid-storage citations vacated
OSHA cited Omni-Metal Castings for excessive coal-tar-pitch volatiles, inadequate exhaust at a grinding wheel, and excessive storage of flammable or combustible liquids. The judge rejected the air-sampling laboratory reports as insufficiently reliable without testimony from the analysts and found…
Jamison Bedding, Inc.
Cotton-dust citations vacated
Air samples from Jamison Bedding's bale-opening and willow operations measured total dust well above the one-milligram limit for raw cotton dust. The judge vacated the exposure and control citations because the samples also contained vegetation, burlap, and other process dust, and the laboratory…
B.F. Goodrich Company
Noise settlement approved and abatement extension motion denied
The settlement vacated a chemical-exposure item and its $80 penalty for lack of evidence, while affirming an occupational-noise item with a $60 penalty and a staged abatement plan. B.F. Goodrich later asked for two years after the Commission's final order to complete the cure-men abatement work…
Consolidated Aluminum Corporation
Coal-tar exposure item vacated
OSHA alleged that a Consolidated Aluminum employee was exposed to coal-tar pitch volatiles above the eight-hour limit. The company contested that item and its proposed $40 penalty. The Secretary later moved to withdraw because the company had made good-faith corrective efforts and the investigative…
Southern Railway Company
Nine repair-shop items affirmed
OSHA cited ten conditions at Southern Railway's Spartanburg maintenance and repair facility, including spray-area lighting, welding-fume exposure, sanitation, fixed ladders, scaffolds, and welding-screen protection. The Commission rejected the railroad's claim that Department of Transportation…
VEPCO, Mount Storm Power Station
Mischaracterized abatement petition dismissed
OSHA cited VEPCO's Mount Storm Power Station for employee exposure to dust and requested an abatement plan. VEPCO submitted administrative controls for immediate protection and a longer-term engineering program, while maintaining that the administrative measures already achieved compliance. An OSHA…
Gurney Manufacturing Division, Gurney Industries, Inc.
Withdrawal dispute remanded for further proceedings
Gurney Manufacturing contested a citation under section 1910.93(a)(2) and later moved to withdraw its notice of contest. A judge granted withdrawal, but the employee representative had opposed the motion, and the Commission directed review. After remand, the judge dismissed further proceedings on…
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.