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Secretary of Labor v. Paramont Coal Company Virginia LLC and Paramont Coal Company Virginia LLC v. Secretary of Labor
Secretary of Labor v. Paramont Coal Company Virginia LLC and Paramont Coal Company Virginia LLC v. Secretary of Labor (FMSHRC VA 2010-458, et al.): Misaligned belt found S&S on remand
Paramont's misaligned conveyor belt rubbed against metal hangers near float coal dust and wooden baffles that had begun smoldering from contact with the belt. The Commission remanded so the Judge could consider those conditions together, along with the mine's methane liberation, under continued…
Secretary of Labor v. Paramont Coal Company Virginia LLC
Secretary of Labor v. Paramont Coal Company Virginia LLC (FMSHRC VA 2010-458, et al.): Belt-fire S&S ruling vacated for ignoring baffles
MSHA cited Paramont after a misaligned conveyor belt rubbed bottom roller hangers near coal-dust accumulations and wooden ventilation baffles. The ALJ found the alignment violation but ruled it was not significant and substantial, focusing on the hangers and excluding the baffles because they had…
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review, an ALJ decision becomes a final order under 29 U.S.C. § 661(j): it binds the parties in that case but is not binding precedent in other cases.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.