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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PetSmart, Inc.
Hearing ordered on whether citation service was proper
OSHA cited a PetSmart store for an allegedly ineffective rodent-extermination program and proposed a $5,432 penalty. The citation was sent by certified mail to the inspected Florida store, where an unidentified person signed for it, even though PetSmart's safety manager had earlier asked OSHA to…
United States Postal Service
Asbestos item vacated and repeat spider violation affirmed
OSHA cited a Nevada post office over asbestos hazard communication and vermin control, along with several items the Postal Service later stopped contesting. The judge vacated the asbestos item because the Secretary did not prove the cited floor material contained regulated asbestos. The…
Follett Corporation
Reliance on landlord did not excuse late contest
Follett operated a college bookstore in a Tuskegee University building and received citations concerning vermin, asbestos awareness, and lead exposure. Its store manager gave both Follett's citations and the university's separate citations to a university safety official, believing the university…
Thoroughgood, Inc., d/b/a Azalea Court
Most bloodborne pathogen and vermin citations affirmed at a personal care home
Thoroughgood, Inc., doing business as Azalea Court, runs a residential personal care home in downtown Philadelphia that housed about 70 to 80 residents. After a September 1996 inspection, OSHA cited the home for failing to control rodents and insects and for ten separate violations of the…
Dillard Texas Operating Limited Partnership, and its successors
Floor and emergency-preparedness items affirmed
OSHA cited a Dillard's store for damaged floors and walls, locked or poorly fitting exits, emergency-planning deficiencies, inadequate fire-extinguisher training, machine guarding, and electrical conditions. Judge James H. Barkley affirmed an other-than-serious passageway violation because…
Beth Israel Medical Center Hospital
Garbage odor and vermin citations vacated for lack of proof
OSHA cited Beth Israel Medical Center after a complaint that odors, insects, rodents, and vermin from a temporary garbage shed affected employees in nearby offices. During the inspection, the compliance officer detected only a slight deodorizer-like odor near a window and did not consider it…
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.