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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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Exxon Mobil Baytown Refinery
One mental-illness recordkeeping instance affirmed
A pipe rupture at ExxonMobil's Baytown refinery caused an explosion that injured three contractors and a fire that burned for nearly eight hours. Three process technicians who responded later received mental-illness diagnoses and missed work, but ExxonMobil declined to record the cases on its OSHA…
Mulch ‘n More, Inc.
Willful injury-recording violation affirmed
A Mulch ‘n More employee suffered a chainsaw laceration at a jobsite, received stitches and an immobilizing wrap, and was sent home the next day because of the injury. The company’s owner knew the injury occurred at work, arranged transportation to the hospital, and had prior experience with OSHA…
Matsu Alabama, Inc., d/b/a A Division of Matcor Automotive, Inc.
Press-safety and repeat machine-guarding citations largely affirmed
Matsu Alabama assigned a temporary worker hired as a janitor to operate and load a mechanical press without adequate press training or supervision. A bent crowder-bar safeguard failed to keep him within the light curtain, and the press caused severe amputation injuries to both hands and one…
United States Postal Service
Recordkeeping citation narrowed under FMLA confidentiality rules
OSHA cited the United States Postal Service for failing to enter two employees' work-related illnesses on required injury and illness forms. For one employee, the only document identifying the illness as work-related was a medical certification submitted for Family and Medical Leave Act leave. The…
Shaw Global Energy Services, Inc.
Change-house item vacated and mercury recordkeeping violation affirmed
Shaw Global was decommissioning and demolishing a mercury-contaminated cell room at an Alabama chemical plant. OSHA issued eleven serious citation items concerning mercury exposure and one other-than-serious recordkeeping item. The judge affirmed three serious items and the recordkeeping item, but…
Millard Refrigerated Services
Mixed ruling after major ammonia release
About 32,000 pounds of anhydrous ammonia escaped from a cracked roof header and a broken evaporator coil at Millard's refrigerated warehouse. Roughly 150 people were taken to hospitals and released, and the company lost about $4 million in product. The judge affirmed items involving unguarded…
AKM LLC d/b/a Volks Constructors
Four recordkeeping violations treated as continuing
Volks failed to create incident reports and log entries for numerous injuries, review its logs for completeness, obtain executive certification of annual summaries, and keep one annual summary posted for the full required period. The Commission majority held that the first four omissions continued…
FedEx Express, Inc.
Late recordkeeping violation reduced to de minimis
A FedEx employee cut his forehead while exiting a vehicle and received sutures and prescription medication. A supervisor entered the injury into FedEx's electronic system but did not mark that medical treatment was received, so the case did not appear on the 2007 OSHA 300 Log within seven days…
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.