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. Consolidation Coal Company
Secretary of Labor v. Consolidation Coal Company (FMSHRC WEVA 2015-36): Thirty citations settled for $48,000
MSHA and Consolidation Coal Company settled 30 citations involving conditions at the Robinson Run No. 95 Mine. The settlement vacated Citation 8058726 and modified the negligence, gravity, injury, or affected-person findings for several other citations. The cited conditions included combustible…
Secretary of Labor v. Alden Resources, LLC
Secretary of Labor v. Alden Resources, LLC (FMSHRC KENT 2013-960): Fan, lifeline, examination, and dust violations bring $8,262
MSHA issued five citations at Alden Resources' low-seam underground coal mine after a rock-fall cleanup and later inspections. Judge Thomas P. McCarthy affirmed an S&S violation for failing to reactivate an automatic signal on a ventilation fan, assessing $1,026, but vacated a related recordkeeping…
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review, an ALJ decision becomes a final order under 29 U.S.C. § 661(j): it binds the parties in that case but is not binding precedent in other cases.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.