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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Schuylkill Metals Corporation
Voluntary lead removals required full earnings
Schuylkill operated a secondary lead smelter and transferred employees with rising blood lead levels from production work to lower-exposure janitorial duties. The company maintained their regular hourly rates but did not pay the overtime and production bonuses they would have earned in production…
RSR Corporation
Willful lead-benefit violations affirmed
These consolidated cases address medical removal protection benefits, employee terminations, lead-exposure records, and removal from excessive lead exposure at RSR facilities. The Commission held that depositing wages in escrow did not satisfy the lead standard because removed employees had to…
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review, an ALJ decision becomes a final order under 29 U.S.C. § 661(j): it binds the parties in that case but is not binding precedent in other cases.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.