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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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…
J-Lenco, Inc.
Lockout and machine-guarding violations resulted in $6,250 in penalties
J-Lenco manufactured sand molds using machines with electrical, hydraulic, and pneumatic energy. An operator's arm was crushed when he tried to push a drifting machine component back into place. The judge affirmed serious violations involving excess flammable-liquid storage, inadequate…
Tree of Life, Inc., d/b/a Gourmet Award Foods, NE Division
Emergency-exit violation reclassified as serious
Tree of Life operated a wholesale food warehouse where two emergency exit doors would not open promptly when employees applied reasonable pressure. The judge affirmed the exit violation as de minimis because the doors eventually opened. The Commission held that the violation was serious because…
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review, an ALJ decision becomes a final order under 29 U.S.C. § 661(j): it binds the parties in that case but is not binding precedent in other cases.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.