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, MSHA v. BHP Navajo Coal Company
Secretary of Labor v. BHP Navajo Coal Company (FMSHRC CENT 2012-199): Fuel, electrical, and dust citations split
MSHA brought nine citations concerning dust visibility, gasoline storage and piping, electrical conditions, workplace examinations, and other surface-mine hazards at BHP Navajo's large New Mexico coal mine. Judge Richard W. Manning vacated the dust-visibility citation because the Secretary did not…
Secretary of Labor v. Justice Energy Company, Inc.
Secretary of Labor v. Justice Energy Company, Inc. (FMSHRC WEVA 2011-220 and WEVA 2011-629): Truck and haul-road citations cut to $3,802
Justice Energy contested six citations involving contractor and company trucks, dusty haul roads, a dump-site berm, and a rock in the roadway at its surface coal mine. Judge Jeffrey Tureck upheld a contractor-truck maintenance citation but reduced the mine operator's negligence and penalty because…
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review, an ALJ decision becomes a final order under 29 U.S.C. § 661(j): it binds the parties in that case but is not binding precedent in other cases.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.