Federal Agency Decisions
Workplace-safety cases from the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHRC), mine-safety cases from the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission (FMSHRC), and environmental appeals from the EPA's Environmental Appeals Board, each with a plain-English summary, the standards it cites, and whether it counts as precedent. More agencies are coming.
No decisions match these filters
Try fewer or different words, check the spelling, or clear the filters to browse everything.
Jordan Construction
Two auger-mining violations affirmed
Jordan Construction operated a small auger-mining business with two employees. The ALJ found an overhang above the work area and found that the operator failed to follow its approved ground control plan by leaving inadequate web material between auger holes. The Secretary did not prove a violation…
Anchor Mining Incorporated
Penalty proceedings partly affirmed
Anchor Mining and two of its supervisory employees faced civil penalty proceedings involving unsafe work around a surface mine ditch and an excavator. Judge George A. Koutras affirmed a $4,500 penalty against Anchor for an unwarrantable-failure violation involving unstable material, and affirmed a…
Glen Irvan Corporation
Settlement approved at $2,700 after bankruptcy filing
Glen Irvan Corporation faced three violations at the Bark Camp Strip, including a highwall and front-end-loader work-area violation, a preshift-examination violation, and a loose highwall-material violation. The decision states that the violations grew out of a fatal fall-of-material accident and…
What these documents are
- The agencies: Workplace-safety cases from the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHRC), mine-safety cases from the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission (FMSHRC), and environmental permit and penalty appeals from the EPA's Environmental Appeals Board (EAB). Each decision page names its agency.
- Commission and Board decisions: Rulings by the agency's highest review level (the Commission at OSHRC and FMSHRC, the Environmental Appeals Board at EPA). These are citable as precedent, though a decision may have been appealed to a U.S. Court of Appeals after issuance.
- ALJ decisions: Rulings by the agency's Administrative Law Judges after a hearing. When no Commissioner directs review, an ALJ decision becomes a final order that binds the parties in that case but is not binding precedent: under 29 U.S.C. § 661(j) at OSHRC, and after the 40-day window of 30 U.S.C. § 823(d)(1) at FMSHRC.
- 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 public release from the deciding agency, and the full text on the page is that release. The plain-English summaries are written by Ezel.