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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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Mansfield Industrial, Inc.
Training violations affirmed and PPE assessment citation vacated
Mansfield Industrial removed corrosion from piping at a Texas chemical plant where a pipe ruptured and released trichlorosilane, causing two employees to inhale the chemical and one to suffer chemical burns. OSHA cited Mansfield for process-safety and hazard-communication training violations and…
Outfront Media, Inc.
Three billboard fall-protection items vacated
An OSHA compliance officer observed four Outfront Media employees working more than four feet above ground on a billboard without fall protection. OSHA cited fall protection, fall-hazard training, and workplace hazard-assessment requirements, with a proposed grouped penalty of $12,675. The judge…
Jake's Fireworks, Inc.
Fireworks storage and hazard-control violations affirmed
Jake's Fireworks employees were clearing old and damaged consumer fireworks from storage containers at a former Kansas facility when a fire broke out. Both employees were badly burned, and one later died. The judge found that damaged fireworks, exposed pyrotechnic material, combustible debris, and…
Consolidated Barricades, Inc.
Three-year-late contest dismissed with prejudice
Consolidated Barricades received two serious citation items in December 2012 but did not contest them until November 2015. The company disputed the underlying PPE and forklift allegations but gave no explanation for missing the 15-working-day deadline. The judge found no excusable neglect or other…
Wal-Mart Distribution Center #6016
Site-specific PPE assessment affirmed, three equipment items vacated
Wal-Mart relied on a personal-protective-equipment hazard assessment performed at an Arkansas distribution center as a global assessment for its New Braunfels, Texas facility. The Commission affirmed the hazard-assessment item because Wal-Mart had not verified that conditions at the two locations…
BF Goodrich Hilton Davis, Inc.
One PPE citation affirmed after a boilout burn injury, remaining items vacated
BF Goodrich Hilton Davis makes color pigments and dyes at a Cincinnati plant, where large dryers are periodically cleaned with a hot, corrosive soap-and-water "boilout." A third-shift operator was burned over 47 percent of his body when boilout contents at about 116 degrees Celsius splashed on him…
North Atlantic Fish Company, Inc.
Broad fish-plant safety violations affirmed
OSHA's safety and health inspections of North Atlantic's Massachusetts fish-processing plant identified extensive fire, machine, electrical, chemical, respiratory, noise, storage, and powered-industrial-truck hazards. The judge affirmed most of the serious items, including general duty violations…
C-Post
Willful lockout and guarding citations cut to serious after a small fence-post maker's amputation injury
C-Post is a small Montana company that makes wooden fence posts and furniture legs from logs, employing about 10 people. After a worker's left hand was severed in a doweler machine, OSHA inspected and issued a long list of serious, willful, repeat, and other-than-serious citations covering…
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.