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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M & M Road Recycle, Inc.
$5,000 in attorney fees awarded for one duplicative citation under the EAJA
After largely defeating OSHA's citations in an earlier case, M & M Road Recycle, Inc. asked for its attorney fees under the Equal Access to Justice Act, which lets small employers recover costs when the government's position was not substantially justified. In the underlying case, the judge had…
Gerard Leone & Sons, Inc.
Dump-truck support requirements applied on a public street
Gerard Leone & Sons operated a dump truck without permanent dump-body supports and safety latches, and a falling raised body caused a fatality. The company argued that the cited motor-vehicle standards did not apply because the truck was being used on a public street. The Commission held that…
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review, an ALJ decision becomes a final order under 29 U.S.C. § 661(j): it binds the parties in that case but is not binding precedent in other cases.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.