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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Croman Corporation, and its successors
Damaged helicopter logging slings violated removal rule
Croman used wire rope chokers to lift logs by helicopter at an Idaho timber sale. OSHA found slings in service with more than five broken wires in a single strand near the nubbin, where field use concentrated stress. Judge Benjamin R. Loye held that the cited removal rule presumed a hazard when its…
General American Transportation Corporation
Five citation items left affirmed after deadlock
The judge affirmed citation items involving combustible material near oxygen storage, paint-spill cleanup, paint-residue accumulations, damaged crane slings, and machine guarding at General American Transportation's plant. Commissioner Cleary would have affirmed each item based on the cited…
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review, an ALJ decision becomes a final order under 29 U.S.C. § 661(j): it binds the parties in that case but is not binding precedent in other cases.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.