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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Secretary of Labor v. Leeco, Inc.
Secretary of Labor v. Leeco, Inc. (FMSHRC KENT 2012-166): Prior counseling did not prove operator negligence
A continuous-miner operator at Leeco's No. 68 Mine was fatally pinned after entering a red-zone pinch point while trying to free the machine. Leeco stipulated that the accident involved an S&S violation of its roof control plan, leaving negligence and the penalty as the disputed issues. The Judge…
Shamokin Filler Company, Inc.
Shamokin Filler Company, Inc. (FMSHRC PENN 2009-775): Carbon plant held subject to Mine Act
Shamokin operated a plant that dried, screened, stored, bagged, and sold anthracite coal to customer specifications. The Commission affirmed that these activities made the plant a custom coal-preparation facility and therefore a mine under the Mine Act, even though the plant also handled non-coal…
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review, an ALJ decision becomes a final order under 29 U.S.C. § 661(j): it binds the parties in that case but is not binding precedent in other cases.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.