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. National Lime and Stone Company
Secretary of Labor v. National Lime and Stone Company (FMSHRC LAKE 2025-0237): Late imminent-danger contest reopened
National Lime sought an MSHA conference on an imminent-danger withdrawal order and believed that request also contested the order before the Commission. It learned one week after the statutory deadline that imminent-danger orders require a separate contest filing. The company sought reopening the…
Secretary of Labor v. Consol Pennsylvania Coal Company, LLC
Secretary of Labor v. Consol Pennsylvania Coal Company, LLC (FMSHRC PENN 2022-0083): Good-cause inquiry ordered for late contests
Consol missed the 30-day deadline to contest a section 107(a) order because it was trying to resolve the matter through meetings with MSHA officials. It also sought to reopen three related citations, but one had not yet been assessed, another had already been timely contested, and only Citation No…
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review, an ALJ decision becomes a final order under 29 U.S.C. § 661(j): it binds the parties in that case but is not binding precedent in other cases.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.