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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D & J Manufacturing Inc.
Four repeat hazard-communication violations affirmed
D & J Manufacturing makes custom printed advertising specialties and novelties in Toledo, Ohio, using inks, solvents, adhesives, and pigments. OSHA had cited the company in 1992 for hazard-communication failures, and those citations became final. A February 1993 follow-up inspection found the same…
Craig Mechanical, Inc.
Late contest denied despite unanswered calls to OSHA
OSHA issued Craig Mechanical one serious and several other-than-serious citations with $825 in proposed penalties. The owner called OSHA twice within the 15-working-day contest period, said he wanted the charges dismissed, and was told to wait for the area director, who never returned the calls. He…
Otis Elevator Company
Missing access-records rule classified as de minimis
Otis Elevator was installing three elevators at a construction site when an OSHA inspector asked for a copy of the employee medical and exposure records access rule. Otis had material safety data sheets at the site but did not have the rule or its appendices, and it did not create or maintain…
Foster-Wheeler Constructors, Inc.
Initial asbestos-monitoring violation affirmed
Foster-Wheeler Constructors renovated a boiler at a Florida power plant while an asbestos-abatement subcontractor removed insulation nearby. Foster employees worked and traveled in areas where monitoring and physical samples showed that asbestos fibers had escaped the removal enclosures, but Foster…
General Motors Corporation, Arlington Plant
Exposure-record item settled and posting item vacated
Employees near a solvent degreaser were exposed to toxic chemicals, but General Motors had not informed them of their right to access exposure-monitoring records and the material safety data sheet. The judge affirmed that information item as nonserious. A second item alleged that the…
DeKalb Forge Company
Hearing-conservation and record-access citations affirmed
DeKalb Forge stipulated that it had not complied with seven hearing-conservation provisions and two employee-record-access provisions at its Illinois forging shop. The judge vacated the citations after relying on a court panel decision that invalidated the hearing-conservation amendment, but the…
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.