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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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Willamette Iron & Steel Co.
Repeated housekeeping violation affirmed with lower penalty
Willamette Iron & Steel Co. admitted that walkways and work areas on a ship were cluttered with hoses, electrical leads, cords, and debris in violation of the shipyard housekeeping standard. The company had received a final citation under the same standard at the same dry dock nearly three years…
Willamette Iron and Steel Company
Shipboard housekeeping violation was not preventable
Willamette Iron and Steel was repairing a Navy vessel while about 400 Navy personnel performed similar work aboard the ship. Tools, hoses, and electrical leads repeatedly obstructed walkways, but the judge found that Navy personnel created the conditions and that the company complained to the Navy…
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Shipyard housekeeping violation reclassified as repeated
Bethlehem Steel repaired ships at its San Pedro yard. An earlier final citation involved a bilge pump and air hoses obstructing a passageway on one vessel, and a later inspection found welding leads, burning leads, and hoses obstructing passageways on another vessel. The company admitted the second…
Petrolane Offshore Construction Service, Inc.
Maritime work citations affirmed under OSHA coverage
Petrolane performed offshore construction and ship repair work at a Louisiana site, including conversion of a barge and sandblasting a drilling-platform structure. OSHA issued seventeen nonserious citation items covering recordkeeping, cranes, abrasive blasting, compressed-gas cylinders, scaffolds…
Todd Shipyards Corp.
Three repeated ship-repair violations affirmed
Todd Shipyards was repairing the S/S OREGON MAIL when OSHA found an unguarded manhole, an obstructed passageway, and an employee working from a scaffold railing without fall protection. The judge found repeated violations of the manhole, housekeeping, and elevated-work standards because earlier…
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.