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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Beverly Healthcare-Hillview
Bloodborne-pathogen follow-up items affirmed after court remand
The Third Circuit vacated an earlier Commission decision that had thrown out two bloodborne-pathogens citation items against Beverly Healthcare-Hillview. The court determined that the employer had fair notice of the Secretary's interpretation of the cited post-exposure evaluation and follow-up…
The Barbosa Group, Inc. d/b/a Executive Security
Bloodborne-pathogen items affirmed with reduced penalty
Barbosa supplied security personnel to a federal immigration detention facility where their duties exposed them to blood and other bodily fluids. The Commission held that Barbosa remained their employer because it hired, paid, scheduled, supervised, and disciplined them, even though the federal…
Beverly Healthcare-Hillview
Bloodborne-pathogen cost citations vacated
Two nurses at Beverly's nursing home received needlesticks and obtained post-exposure medical treatment during non-working hours. Beverly paid the medical charges but did not pay the employees for their time or travel expenses. The Commission found that the bloodborne-pathogens requirement to…
Borg-Warner Protective Services Corporation, d/b/a Burns International Security Services
Bloodborne-pathogen items split and reduced
Burns security guards at a manufacturing plant treated minor cuts and burns, transported injured workers, and were expected to provide CPR when needed. The judge found that these duties created occupational exposure under the bloodborne-pathogens standard even though actual blood contact was…
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review, an ALJ decision becomes a final order under 29 U.S.C. § 661(j): it binds the parties in that case but is not binding precedent in other cases.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.