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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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Pro-Spec Corporation dba Pro-Spec Painting

Two worksite citation sets affirmed

Pro-Spec performed abrasive blasting and painting at water-tank projects in Easton and Quakertown, Pennsylvania. OSHA cited respiratory-protection, scaffold, fall-protection, ladder, electrical-wiring, confined-space, and recordkeeping violations after a suspended scaffold collapsed at the Easton…

September 21, 2018 ·Covette Rooney
Citations affirmed

ALJ

Calhar Construction, Inc.

Trench and backup-alarm violations affirmed

Employees worked in a trench more than seven feet deep with the access ladder over 60 feet away and set at an improper angle. The trench lacked an adequate cave-in protection system, and laboratory testing confirmed that the soil was not stable rock. OSHA also observed a front-end loader backing…

December 23, 2002 ·Sidney J. Goldstein
Citations affirmed

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review, an ALJ decision becomes a final order under 29 U.S.C. § 661(j): it binds the parties in that case but is not binding precedent in other cases.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.

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OSHA standards

29 U.S.C. § 654(a)(1) (477) 29 C.F.R. § 1926.500(d)(1) (216) 29 C.F.R. § 1926.652(a)(1) (208) 29 C.F.R. § 1926.28(a) (178) 29 C.F.R. § 1910.132(a) (171) 29 C.F.R. § 1926.21(b)(2) (158) 29 C.F.R. § 1910.212(a)(1) (137) 29 C.F.R. § 1926.105(a) (130) 29 C.F.R. § 1926.501(b)(1) (113) 29 C.F.R. § 1926.100(a) (110) 29 C.F.R. § 1910.212(a)(3)(ii) (99) 29 C.F.R. § 1926.652(b) (94)

MSHA standards

30 U.S.C. § 815(a) (250) 30 U.S.C. § 820(i) (87) 30 U.S.C. § 815(c)(2) (65) 30 U.S.C. § 815(d) (54) 29 C.F.R. § 2700.1(b) (51) 30 U.S.C. § 815(c)(1) (50) 30 U.S.C. § 823(d)(1) (48) 30 U.S.C. § 820(k) (41) 30 U.S.C. § 823(d)(2)(A)(i) (39) 29 C.F.R. § 2700.28 (33) 30 U.S.C. § 814(d)(1) (30) 30 U.S.C. § 815(c)(3) (26)