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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CH2M Hill, Inc., f/k/a CH2M Hill Central, Inc.
Forty willful tunnel electrical violations yield $200,000
CH2M Hill provided engineering and program-management services for a Milwaukee wastewater tunnel project. After methane ignited in a tunnel explosion that killed three employees of the tunneling contractor, OSHA cited CH2M for unapproved electrical equipment and nonreversible ventilation. The…
Morrison-Knudsen & Associates
Exposed tunnel power cable violation found willful
Morrison-Knudsen was the prime contractor on a subway tunnel project where energized 480-volt and 7,200-volt cables lay on tunnel floors exposed to water, mud, debris, concrete, and moving equipment. The judge affirmed a single serious violation but refused to let the Secretary amend the case to…
Tunnel Electric Construction Co.
Exposed energized tunnel cables support serious violation
Energized 480-volt and 7,200-volt cables lay in mud, water, debris, and hardened concrete in subway tunnels where heavy equipment and employees operated. The Commission held that the rule requiring cables to be elevated or covered was not vague. The cables had suffered repeated damage, and their…
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review, an ALJ decision becomes a final order under 29 U.S.C. § 661(j): it binds the parties in that case but is not binding precedent in other cases.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.