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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Georgia Power Company
Aerial-lift citation item vacated on court mandate
Acting under an order from the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, the Commission vacated the part of its earlier decision that had affirmed citation 1, item 1A(b), concerning the aerial-lift standard at section 1926.556(a)(1). The short public order does not restate the…
Georgia Power Company
Aerial-lift design item affirmed and two items vacated
A Georgia Power lineman was seriously burned when an exposed metal jibholder on an aerial lift contacted an energized line. The Commission held that the aerial-lift standard validly required employers to acquire equipment designed under sound engineering principles, and that the jibholder's design…
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review, an ALJ decision becomes a final order under 29 U.S.C. § 661(j): it binds the parties in that case but is not binding precedent in other cases.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.