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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Americold Logistics, LLC
Powered-vehicle aisle and training citations vacated
Americold operated powered industrial vehicles in a large Georgia cold-storage facility where pedestrians and vehicles shared the loading-dock floor. An untrained and unauthorized employee drove a vehicle and severely injured his ankle while trying to avoid a bollard. The judge vacated the aisle…
Stone House Enterprises, Inc., d/b/a Jacksonville Granite
Late notice of contest dismissed
Stone House Enterprises fabricates and installs granite countertops. OSHA issued citations from two inspections addressing fire-extinguisher maintenance, forklift and hazard-communication training, and silica-related conditions. The company received both citation packages on June 6, 2019, but did…
Elite Builders, Inc.
Fall and forklift violations partly affirmed
Elite Builders was a residential roofing contractor inspected at two Nebraska worksites where employees worked on elevated roofs without conventional fall protection. At the second site, employees were lifted on an oversized, unguarded personnel platform attached to a rough-terrain forklift…
Stephen M. Rhim
Employee abatement-date contest dismissed as moot
OSHA cited the U.S. Postal Service for allowing untrained employees to operate powered hand jacks at an Indianapolis facility and set an abatement date less than a month after citation issuance. Affected employee Stephen M. Rhim contested only the abatement date, arguing that corrective action…
Diamond Installations, Inc.
Willful forklift and fall violations reduced to serious
Diamond installed exterior wall panels on a high-rise construction project in New York City. A gang foreman gave a forklift key to an employee who had not completed the required operator training, and the employee died when the forklift tipped over. OSHA also observed three Diamond employees…
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.