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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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The Specialist of the South, Inc.
$3,000 penalty affirmed for 39 serious items
The Specialists operated a small furniture repair, refinishing, and upholstery business using flammable and toxic materials. OSHA cited 39 serious violations, primarily involving fire and explosion hazards, and proposed $9,900 in penalties. An ALJ affirmed every serious item but assessed a combined…
Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Group, Division of United Technologies Corporation
Three open-tank items vacated and goggles item affirmed without precedential value
Pratt & Whitney used open tanks containing hydrochloric acid, nitric acid, cleaner, and water to pickle aircraft parts at its Middletown facility. The Commission vacated an employee-instruction item because orientation, on-the-job training, tank warning signs, employee experience, and the obvious…
Anoplate Corporation
Mixed ruling on plating, chemical storage, and recordkeeping items
Anoplate operated an electroplating and metal-finishing plant with open chemical tanks, chemical storage, spray painting, and compressed-air work. The Commission affirmed a nonserious eye-protection violation because dipping racks created a significant risk of harmful splashes, and it assessed $25…
Schulte Corporation
Three electroplating-protection violations affirmed
Schulte manufactured bathroom fixtures and finished them in electroplating tanks containing corrosive chemical solutions. The Commission affirmed a nonserious violation because employees exposed to chromic acid received no periodic examinations after their pre-employment physicals. It also affirmed…
Auto Sun Products Co.
Plating protections affirmed and press items vacated
Auto Sun employees handled parts over acid and cyanide tanks without chemical goggles or face shields, and the closely spaced tanks lacked dikes or another means to prevent dangerous intermixing after a rupture. The Commission affirmed both plating-operation violations without penalties. It vacated…
P. & M. Sales, Inc.
Mixed citation ruling and $35 penalty affirmed
P. & M. Sales manufactured toys and dolls and was cited for several nonserious conditions involving its spray and electro-forming areas. The Commission held that the employer's timely written contest of the penalties, together with a contemporaneous oral communication contesting the citation, gave…
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.