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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Loomis Cabinet Company
Cabinet workers held to be employees
Loomis Cabinet Company manufactured wooden cabinets and was cited after a follow-up inspection for repeat, other-than-serious, and failure-to-abate violations. Loomis stipulated to the violations but argued that its former employees had become partners in Eastview Cabinet Company, leaving Loomis…
E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc.
Spray-room item remanded and eyewash item vacated
OSHA cited DuPont for conducting pump spray-painting without a spray booth or spray room and for allegedly lacking suitable emergency eye-flushing facilities where corrosive liquids were handled. The Commission ruled that the spray-painting item required more evidence on whether the pump shop…
Midwest Steel Fabricators, Inc.
Abatement-extension petition denied
Midwest Steel Fabricators sought more time to abate two violations. The judge denied the petition after finding that the company remained out of compliance, had not proved a good-faith abatement effort, and had not shown that factors beyond its reasonable control prevented completion. The company…
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…
Illinois Central Gulf Railroad Co.
Forty-six citation items vacated as untimely
OSHA cited 46 alleged safety, health, recordkeeping, and posting violations at Illinois Central Gulf Railroad's locomotive repair facility in Paducah, Kentucky. The inspection was coordinated with the Federal Railroad Administration, and the proposed citation moved through regional and national…
U.S.I. Clearing
Spray-booth settlement affirmed despite service error
U.S.I. Clearing contested a citation item requiring spray-finishing operations to be enclosed in a spray booth or room. The employer and the Secretary settled the item by extending its abatement date to August 15, 1974, with no penalty assessed. Commission rules required the employer to serve 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.