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. Revelation Energy, LLC
Secretary of Labor v. Revelation Energy, LLC (FMSHRC KENT 2017-118): Emergency-tracking settlement lacked enough facts
MSHA cited Revelation Energy for eight deficiencies in its mine-wide tracking and communication system, including untracked miners, dead tracking pads, limited working text pagers, and missing examination and failure records. The parties proposed reducing the penalty from $2,665 to $2,265 because…
Mark L. Lujan v. Signal Peak Energy, LLC
Mark L. Lujan v. Signal Peak Energy, LLC (FMSHRC WEST 2015-252-D): Medical absence did not prove Mine Act discrimination
Mark Lujan alleged that Signal Peak suspended and discharged him after he stayed home during a gout flare-up because he believed working would endanger himself and others. Judge David F. Barbour excused Lujan's late complaint because the operator did not show material prejudice, but held that…
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review, an ALJ decision becomes a final order under 29 U.S.C. § 661(j): it binds the parties in that case but is not binding precedent in other cases.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.