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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Basin Resources, Inc.
Mixed citation results with $25,601 penalty
Basin Resources contested penalties for safety violations at the Golden Eagle Mine, including ventilation, guarding, escapeway, roof-control, and coal-dust conditions. Judge Richard W. Manning vacated one citation, affirmed most of the remaining findings, modified one unwarrantable-failure order to…
Energy Fuels Coal, Inc.
Two citations affirmed and two vacated
Energy Fuels Coal was assessed civil penalties in two consolidated dockets involving conveyor guarding and preshift examinations at the Southfield Mine. Judge August F. Cetti affirmed two non-significant-and-substantial citations with $50 penalties each, for a total of $100. He vacated one conveyor…
Pennsylvania Electric Company
Mine Act jurisdiction upheld after even Commission split
MSHA cited Pennsylvania Electric Company for failing to guard two conveyor drives at an electric generating station. The Commission had previously remanded the case so the judge could determine whether the Secretary had properly exercised Mine Act jurisdiction over the cited area. On remand, the…
Pennsylvania Electric Company
Conveyor citations affirmed under Mine Act jurisdiction
MSHA cited Pennsylvania Electric Company for failing to adequately guard the head drives of two conveyors at its Homer City electric generating station. The judge decided that the conveyor drives were part of a facility used to prepare coal because the coal traveled through them before being…
Southern Ohio Coal Company
Orders split and penalty assessed
Southern Ohio Coal Company contested ventilation, equipment, and safeguard matters at the Martinka No. 1 Mine. Judge Avram Weisberger found that an approved ventilation plan did not require the curtain described in one order, so the related contest was sustained and Citation No. 2894708 was…
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.