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. Meyer Aggregate, LLC
Secretary of Labor v. Meyer Aggregate, LLC (FMSHRC CENT 2015-654, et al.): One citation vacated and penalties reduced to $3,742
Meyer Aggregate operated a small portable sand-and-gravel mine with three regular employees, and the case covered eight citations across five dockets. Judge Margaret A. Miller affirmed an S&S, high-negligence, unwarrantable violation where an unstable 40-foot stockpile sloughed about 100 tons of…
Secretary of Labor v. Park County Road & Bridge
Secretary of Labor v. Park County Road & Bridge (FMSHRC WEST 2016-237): Cleanup-day training dispute requires more facts
Park County held a community cleanup event on county property near its temporarily idle Nine Pit, using a waste contractor, dumpsters, and a front-end loader. MSHA cited the county for failing to provide hazard training to five contractor employees and failing to provide the contractor with…
Northern Aggregates
Northern Aggregates (FMSHRC LAKE 2012-81-M): Training citation settled with a $100 penalty
MSHA cited Northern Aggregates for a training violation and specially assessed a $1,500 penalty. In settlement, the Secretary stated that the cited worker was a service worker employed by another company rather than a miner and that the citation and inspector's notes did not address that issue. The…
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review, an ALJ decision becomes a final order under 29 U.S.C. § 661(j): it binds the parties in that case but is not binding precedent in other cases.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.