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STIS, Inc., dba Southeast Texas Industrial Services
Crane overload and operator-evaluation violations affirmed
STIS was a construction subcontractor working at a steel mill in Pueblo, Colorado. OSHA cited the company after a carry deck crane tipped while lifting four pipes weighing about 800 pounds each, resulting in the crane operator's death. The judge found that the crane exceeded its rated capacity when…
C Pacific Corporation, dba Five Star Builders
Three scaffold violations affirmed with a grouped penalty
C Pacific Corporation was a construction subcontractor installing aluminum cladding on a car dealership in Puerto Rico, Saipan. OSHA found employees working on a four-level scaffold with incomplete planking, missing stair rails, and missing guardrails, creating fall exposures of 5 to 20 feet. The…
Riverdale Mills Corporation
EAJA fee application denied
Riverdale Mills manufactures coated wire mesh at a facility in Northbridge, Massachusetts. The underlying OSHA cases followed an employee's serious injury in a coating line and produced a mixed merits decision that affirmed three citation items and vacated several lockout/tagout and…
H.G. Arias & Associates, LLC
Hazard-communication training citation vacated
H.G. Arias & Associates was an El Paso staffing agency that supplied temporary employees to Stampcoat, a metal-products manufacturer. OSHA originally issued three serious citation items, withdrew two before trial, and pursued a $9,680 hazard-communication training item concerning four Arias…
MDLG, Inc., dba Phenix Lumber Company
Twenty-eight violations and $2.47 million penalty affirmed
MDLG operated Phenix Lumber Company, where an employee died after falling into a woodchipper auger while trying to clear a jam. OSHA cited five serious violations, 22 willful-serious violations, and one repeat violation involving lockout/tagout, guarding, fall protection, powered industrial trucks…
U.S. Postal Service, dba Kenton Station
Four asbestos-related violations affirmed with reduced penalties
The Postal Service operated Kenton Station in Portland, Oregon, where asbestos-containing flooring was present in work and custodial areas. OSHA alleged repeat violations for missing annual asbestos training, deficient asbestos housekeeping, an incomplete hazardous-chemical list, and the absence of…
Pooler Enterprises
Excavation cave-in citation vacated for lack of exposure proof
Pooler Enterprises performed utility and site work at a construction project in Penfield, New York. OSHA amended its original citation to allege that Pooler failed to protect employees from cave-ins in an excavation measuring more than six feet deep, with a proposed penalty of $4,662. The judge…
Americold Logistics
Unstable railcar load citation vacated
Americold Logistics operated a cold-storage facility in La Porte, Texas, where employees unloaded refrigerated railcars. While two employees were unloading boxes of frozen chicken feet, one or more pallets collapsed onto them, leaving one employee with minor injuries and another paralyzed. OSHA…
Brigade Energy Services LLC
Explosive-handling citation vacated
Brigade Energy Services was the general contractor for work to plug and abandon an oil well in Grassy Butte, North Dakota. A surface explosion occurred while a Brigade worker held a wireline component as a specialty contractor connected it to a steel tube loaded with explosives, injuring three…
Pleasant Mount Welding, Inc.
Flexible-cord item vacated and reporting item affirmed
Pleasant Mount Welding was a Pennsylvania structural-metal fabricator inspected under OSHA's amputation-hazard emphasis program. OSHA cited the company for using flexible cords with a milling machine and a bending machine, and for failing to electronically submit its 2023 OSHA 300A injury and…
Metro Ports, d/b/a Southeast Crescent Shipping
Five lead and cadmium items vacated
Metro Ports operated a marine terminal at the Port of Wilmington, North Carolina, where it handled sealed bulk containers of Waelz oxide containing trace lead and cadmium. OSHA cited five serious violations involving respiratory-hazard evaluation, housekeeping, hazard communication, and…
Sunbelt Rentals Scaffold Services LLC, dba Sunbelt Rentals
Circular-saw training citation vacated
Sunbelt Rentals assigned two employees to build the floor of a temporary paint-storage structure at a Port Arthur, Texas, staging site. One employee sustained tendon and bone injuries when a cordless circular saw contacted his hand, and OSHA cited Sunbelt for allegedly inadequate instruction on…
Packers Sanitation Services, Inc., Ltd., dba PSSI
Conveyor lockout violation affirmed
PSSI provided overnight sanitation services at an automated sandwich plant in Bolingbrook, Illinois. A sanitation worker wedged a conveyor's foot pedal so the belt would run continuously while he dried it with an air hose, and his clothing became caught in the conveyor sprockets. The judge found…
Pettengill Family Restoration, LLC
EAJA fee application denied
Pettengill Family Restoration framed panelized houses as a subcontractor and successfully challenged four OSHA cases totaling $78,701 in proposed penalties. The underlying decision vacated all four citations because OSHA did not prove that the workers assembling the houses were Pettengill employees…
Enwright Roofing, LLC
Repeat fall-protection and ladder violations affirmed
Enwright Roofing was a small New York residential roofing contractor replacing shingles on a home in Oswego. OSHA observed the owner and an employee working 8 to 10 feet above the ground without fall protection and using two extension ladders whose rails did not extend three feet above the roof…
Hall Trucking, Inc.
Rig-move struck-by violation affirmed
Hall Trucking moved oil and gas drilling-rig equipment with heavy trucks while ground workers, known as swampers, worked nearby. During a rig move near Epping, North Dakota, a newly hired swamper was fatally struck by a Hall flatbed truck backing through a congested area. The judge found that the…
Signet Construction, LLC
Truss-bracing violation affirmed and other allegations vacated
Signet Construction was building a 60,000-square-foot dairy barn in South Dakota using 138-foot wooden trusses when most of the trusses over the parlor area collapsed, injuring nine employees. OSHA alleged four General Duty Clause theories involving bracing, truss repair, storage, and hoisting…
Masis Staffing Solutions, LLC
Unstable truss-bundle citation affirmed
Masis Staffing supplied temporary workers to a roof-truss manufacturer in Gainesville, Florida. A forklift operator left a 2,000-pound bundle of trusses standing vertically and unsupported for about ten minutes, and it fell onto a Masis worker who was securing another bundle to a trailer. The judge…
TCP Specialists, LLC
Pressurized-piping buffer-zone violation affirmed
TCP Specialists provided wireline services during work on a gas well in San Augustine County, Texas. When well pressure was released into unrestrained pump piping, the pipe ruptured and whipped violently, killing two workers and injuring three others. The judge found that TCP lacked control over…
Premier Bulk Stevedoring, LLC
Crane-visibility citation vacated
Premier Bulk Stevedoring used a shipboard crane to move rolls of paper from a dock into a vessel's cargo hold. OSHA alleged that the crane operator could not see the signalman guiding the draft's movement and cited the longshoring rule that prohibits hoisting a draft unless the operator can see the…
Pettengill Family Restoration, LLC
Four construction citations vacated
Pettengill Family Restoration subcontracted crews to assemble panelized houses at residential construction sites. Four OSHA inspections produced serious and repeat-serious citations involving head and eye protection, fall protection, scaffolds, and ladders, with proposed penalties totaling $78,701…
Magic Valley Crushing & Excavation, LLC, dba The Rock Yard
Unstable shelving storage violation affirmed
Magic Valley Crushing operated The Rock Yard, an Idaho landscaping-supply store with an overstock storage area. After a manager relocated several metal shelving units, the units were not bolted back together and heavy boxes of hardware were stacked more heavily on the upper shelves. One unit leaned…
Precision Refractory Services
Scaffold-alteration item vacated and falling-object item affirmed
Precision Refractory Services performed fireproof-brick work inside a furnace in Cantonment, Florida. The company assigned an employee to clean debris on the ground below workers handling bricks and tools on a scaffold 12 to 14 feet above him, and a scaffold component fell and fractured his wrist…
595 Construction LLC
Late contests dismissed and penalties affirmed
OSHA inspected three 595 Construction worksites in Elburn, Illinois, under its fall-hazard emphasis program and issued three sets of citations. The company received the citations in early November 2024 but did not file notices of contest by the November 27 deadline, instead filing about two months…
Dish Network, L.L.C.
Willful rooftop fall-protection citation vacated
A DISH technician installed a satellite antenna on a flat restaurant roof about 14 feet above the ground in Syracuse, New York. Two OSHA compliance officers observing from a restaurant 175 to 200 feet away believed the technician was not attached to fall protection and OSHA issued a willful…
Bobcat Contracting, LLC
Pipeline pigging citation vacated
Bobcat Contracting was loading a pipeline inspection device into a natural-gas launcher in Farmersville, Texas, when residual gas ignited and an explosion ejected the device and a steel push pole. Two workers were killed and two were seriously injured. OSHA cited Bobcat under the General Duty…
Montroy Development LLC
Excavation safety violations affirmed
Montroy Development was working in an excavation in Camillus, New York, when an OSHA compliance officer saw two people inside and directed them to exit. OSHA cited Montroy because a spoil pile and excavator were within two feet of the edge and because an employee worked in an excavation more than…
JMT Services, Inc.
Six citations vacated because workers were independent contractors
JMT Services supplied a crew for framing and roofing work at an airport hangar project in Chillicothe, Missouri. OSHA issued six citations covering eye protection, scaffold support, equipment safety, fall protection, ladders, and forklift training, with $30,675 in proposed penalties. The parties…
Avalos Home Improvements WI LLC
Contest dismissed after signed settlement
OSHA cited Avalos Home Improvements for four serious construction violations after employees were observed roofing without fall protection in New Berlin, Wisconsin. The company signed an expedited informal settlement agreement that reduced the proposed penalties from $13,828 to $9,679.60 and…
Prime International Shipping, LLC
Three serious warehouse violations affirmed
Prime International Shipping used a crew to load vehicles into overseas shipping containers at its Houston facility. OSHA cited an unprotected gap between the loading dock and containers, inadequate forklift training, and a chop saw with its guard tied back. Prime argued that the loading crew…
Schindler Elevator Corporation
General-industry citations vacated for construction work
Schindler Elevator was replacing and upgrading 49 elevators at a Houston office tower under a project valued at more than $24 million. OSHA cited three serious violations under general-industry personal protective equipment and lockout-tagout standards, with $26,787 in proposed penalties. Schindler…
Planet Fitness
Late contest dismissed after citation was misplaced
OSHA cited a corporate Planet Fitness gym in Edwardsville, Pennsylvania, for blocked exit routes and several electrical hazards, proposing $30,134 for four serious citation items with subparts. The certified citation was delivered to the gym and signed for on February 28, 2023, making March 21 the…
Trinity Solar LLC, as successor to Trinity Solar Inc.
Repeat residential fall-protection citation vacated
A Trinity Solar worker died after falling during residential solar-panel installation in South Orange, New Jersey. No one saw where the worker was or what he was doing immediately before the fall, and he was wearing a harness. OSHA cited Trinity for allegedly failing to provide fall protection…
Professional Security Consultants, Inc.
Mall workplace-violence citation vacated
A customer carried out a mass shooting at the Boise Towne Square Mall, killing two people, including a security guard employed by Professional Security Consultants, and injuring several others. OSHA cited the security company under the General Duty Clause for allegedly failing to protect its guards…
Greg Beeche Logistics
Suspension-scaffold support-line violation affirmed
Greg Beeche Logistics designed and supplied two-point suspension scaffolds for a high-rise curtain-wall replacement project in Boston. The scaffolds used automatic locking devices on the suspension ropes but lacked the separate independent support lines required when workers attach their…
Exxon Mobil Baytown Refinery
One mental-illness recordkeeping instance affirmed
A pipe rupture at ExxonMobil's Baytown refinery caused an explosion that injured three contractors and a fire that burned for nearly eight hours. Three process technicians who responded later received mental-illness diagnoses and missed work, but ExxonMobil declined to record the cases on its OSHA…
Johnson Brass & Machine Foundry, Inc.
Fall and lockout violations affirmed
Johnson Brass operated pit-mounted centrifugal casting machines at its Wisconsin foundry. An employee was seriously injured when his clothing caught on a rotating die while he cleaned it from inside a spinner pit. OSHA cited fall protection, lockout-tagout, training, and machine-guarding violations…
Quick Roofing, LLC
Repeat ladder-access violation affirmed
Quick Roofing employees used an extension ladder to reach the roof of a three-story apartment building under construction in Winter Garden, Florida. OSHA photographs showed that the ladder extended only about 24 inches above the roof rather than the required three feet. Even if a rope visible in…
Avadek, Inc.
Competent-person inspection citation vacated
Avadek installed an entrance canopy at a sports and event center in Bryan, Texas. During later quality-control work, a foreman died after falling from the canopy, and OSHA cited Avadek for allegedly failing to maintain frequent and regular competent-person inspections. The judge found that Avadek's…
Sofidel America Corp.
Rewinder lockout and training violations affirmed
Sofidel operated a paper-products rewinder at its Circleville, Ohio, facility, where operators routinely entered the machine and used its jogging controls to clear jams. An employee's hand was caught between a moving roller and a guide plate while two employees cleared a jam, causing a degloving…
Bluewater Yachting Solutions, Inc.
Commission dismisses settled case
Bluewater Yachting Solutions and the Secretary of Labor notified the Commission that they had settled all contested citation items. The Commission dismissed the case under Commission Rule 100. The order does not identify the cited standards, settlement terms, or penalty amount.
Commercial Metals Company, d/b/a CMC Steel New Jersey
Mill lockout violations affirmed but willful classification rejected
Commercial Metals Company manufactured steel rebar at its Sayreville, New Jersey, facility. An assistant roller was adjusting a jack behind Mill Stand 7 when the machine unexpectedly energized, pulled him into its spindles, and killed him. The judge found that CMC's established lockout procedure…
Elmer W. Davis, Inc.
Hoist-area and ladder violations affirmed
An Elmer W. Davis crew was replacing roofs on a four-story municipal building in Newark, New York. One employee stepped through modular guardrails and stood near the roof edge without personal fall protection while signaling a crane operator, and three employees used a ladder that extended less…
Preferred Roofing, LLC
Subcontractor fall citations vacated
Preferred Roofing hired Valor Roofing to reroof a home in Jacksonville, Florida. OSHA observed Valor employees working without fall protection and using a ladder whose rails did not extend three feet above the roof, then cited Preferred as the controlling employer under the multi-employer worksite…
Elite Builders, Inc.
Willful residential fall violation affirmed
Elite Builders' owner and four workers were framing the owner's two-story house in Gretna, Nebraska. OSHA found workers without eye protection, on an unsecured forklift-supported platform without fall protection, using an unguarded stairway, and framing on a roof without fall protection. The judge…
MFA Enterprises Inc., dba West Central Agri Services
Willful railcar fall-protection violation affirmed
MFA Enterprises operated a grain-storage and railcar-loading facility in Adrian, Missouri. Employees regularly walked on top of railcars about 15 feet above the ground without using the installed fall-protection system, including an employee who was on a railcar when a grain-elevator explosion…
U.S. Postal Service
Repeat blocked-exit violation affirmed
After a roof collapse closed another New Jersey processing center, the Postal Service rerouted a large volume of packages to its Teterboro plant. OSHA found pallets, boxes, mail, and processing materials obstructing an exit route and found access to fire extinguishers obstructed during two…
KeHE Distributors, LLC
Forklift aisle-marking citation vacated
KeHE operated a large food-distribution warehouse in Romeoville, Illinois, where pedestrians and forklifts shared much of the work area. An employee walked into the side of a moving forklift in a palletizing area and suffered an injury requiring hospitalization. OSHA cited KeHE for failing to mark…
C & S Technical Resources, Inc.
Forklift certification violation affirmed
C & S Technical Resources used a telehandler and a spotter to stack heavy cut steel transmission-pole segments on a flatbed trailer in Liverpool, New York. Two stacks collapsed during loading, and pole segments knocked the spotter from the trailer and killed him. OSHA alleged a General Duty Clause…
Trinity Solar, LLC, as successor to Trinity Solar, Inc.
Head and fall protection penalties reduced
Trinity Solar employees installed solar panels on a residence in Yonkers, New York. OSHA cited a serious head-protection violation for work below solar installers and a repeat fall-protection violation for roof work 25 feet above the ground, proposing $98,216 in total penalties. Trinity withdrew…
United Airlines, Inc.
Aircraft towing hazard citation affirmed
United Airlines technicians were moving an aircraft from a hangar at Newark Liberty International Airport when a wheel ran over an employee's foot. The employee sustained crushing injuries, underwent multiple surgeries, and had all five toes amputated. OSHA cited United under the General Duty…
JK Proctor, LLC
Roofing violations affirmed but willful classifications rejected
A nine-person JK Proctor crew replaced shingles on a one-story house in Canandaigua, New York. The crew worked more than nine feet above the ground without compliant fall protection and used a ladder whose rails extended less than three feet above the roof. A foreman incorrectly measured the roof…
Williams Brothers Construction Co., Inc.
Highway work-zone citation vacated
Williams Brothers Construction was preparing new traffic lanes at the I-69 and I-610 interchange in Houston during an overnight highway closure. A vehicle entered the closed work zone and struck three workers, including a Williams Brothers employee who suffered hip and rib fractures and other…
U.S. Postal Service, dba Portland Processing and Distribution Center
Lockout and machine-guarding citations vacated
OSHA inspected the U.S. Postal Service's Portland processing and distribution center after a complaint and cited lockout, lockout-training, and machine-guarding conditions. The three contested items carried proposed penalties totaling $148,137. The judge found the lock-removal standard did not…
Kenvil United Corp., dba Kenvil Steel, Inc.
Steel-erection fall citation vacated
Kenvil Steel erected structural steel for a municipal-building project in Belle Mead, New Jersey. An OSHA compliance officer observed four employees working 15 to 30 feet above the ground and issued a repeat-serious fall-protection citation with a proposed $30,037 penalty. The judge found that one…
American Civil Constructors LLC, dba American Civil Constructors Mountain West
Excavator-bucket hazard citation affirmed
American Civil Constructors installed water pipe at a construction project in Aurora, Colorado. An excavator operator used a bucket to deliver a pipe plug to an employee in a trench, and the approximately 2,500-pound bucket detached and struck the employee, who died from his injuries. OSHA cited…
Cedar Springs Hospital, Inc. / UHS of Delaware, Inc., dba Cedar Springs Hospital
Workplace-violence and records citations affirmed
Cedar Springs operated a behavioral health hospital in Colorado Springs where employees were frequently assaulted by patients and suffered serious injuries. The judge found that Cedar Springs and UHS of Delaware functioned as a single employer at the worksite through a common workplace, integrated…
RJCL Corporation, d/b/a RNV Construction
Mixed ruling on scaffold and electrical citations
OSHA inspected RNV Construction at a residence and a commercial building in Saipan and issued scaffold and electrical citations carrying $44,754 in proposed penalties. The judge found that RNV Construction employed the residence workers and rejected its challenges to both inspections. Most items…
Donghee Alabama, LLC
Machine-safety violations affirmed, one instance reclassified
Donghee manufactured automotive fuel tanks at an Auburn, Alabama facility using blow-molding and testing machines. A production manager entered an operating blow-mold machine and suffered a broken foot, while light curtains and laser scanners on four other machines were not functioning. The judge…
Barry Billcliff, dba Barry James, et al.
Roofing violations and personal liability affirmed
OSHA inspected roofing work at a hotel and conference center in Devens, Massachusetts, where workers lacked required inspections, head protection, fall protection, training, and compliant ladder access. Barry Billcliff denied controlling the project or employing anyone there, but the judge found…
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.