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.
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Pittsburg & Midway Coal Mining Company
Two citations affirmed as modified and one vacated
Pittsburg & Midway Coal Mining Company operated the Kemmerer Mine and faced three safety citations. Judge August F. Cetti found combustible material and hydraulic oil accumulated on a car-pusher hydraulic unit, and found that a haul-road caution sign was required, but deleted the…
Navasota Mining Company Incorporated
Citations vacated and penalty docket dismissed
At Navasota Mining Company's Gibbons Creek Mine, MSHA first cited a hazardous side-clearance condition on a haul road after a collision that resulted in fatal injuries to a coal truck operator. MSHA later terminated that citation after corrective action, then attempted to modify it more than 13…
Conesville Coal Preparation Company
Imminent-danger order affirmed and training findings vacated
Conesville Coal Preparation operated a coal preparation plant where a truck trailer overturned during coal dumping and fatally crushed another truck driver. Judge George A. Koutras affirmed the imminent-danger order based on inadequate side clearance at the raw coal dumping area. He vacated the…
Western Fuels-Utah, Inc.
Withdrawal order and two citations affirmed, one citation vacated
Western Fuels-Utah contested a withdrawal order and three citations arising from a nonfatal powered-haulage accident at the Deserado Mine. Two workers were seriously injured when a raised dump-truck bed struck an overpass, and one worker's lower left leg had to be amputated at the scene. Judge…
Western Fuels-Utah, Inc.
Withdrawal order and two citations affirmed, one citation vacated
Western Fuels-Utah contested a withdrawal order and three citations arising from a nonfatal powered-haulage accident at the Deserado Mine. Two workers were seriously injured when a raised dump-truck bed struck an overpass, and one worker's lower left leg had to be amputated at the scene. Judge…
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.