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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Star Brite Construction Co., Inc.
Willful roof-edge violations and cylinder items affirmed
Star Brite replaced large low-pitched roofs at a New Jersey bus complex where employees worked near 25-foot-high unprotected edges and handled roofing materials at the roof edge. The Commission affirmed violations of the general built-up-roofing and roof-edge material-handling fall-protection…
The Hartford Roofing Co., Inc.
Commission combines six roof exposures into one repeat violation and assesses $35,000
The Hartford Roofing Co., Inc. had six employees performing built-up roofing work near an inadequately protected edge of a 39-foot-high department-store roof. The company used neither warning lines nor a motion-stopping safety system, and its safety monitor was inadequate for the large roof and…
New England Industrial Roofing Co.
Roof perimeter-guarding item affirmed serious $750, warning-line item vacated
New England Industrial Roofing was removing an old built-up roof and installing a new one on a two-story building when an OSHA officer inspected in December 1992 and cited two serious fall-protection violations: no motion-stopping-safety (guardrail) system at the roof edge, and no warning lines…
Seyforth Roofing Company
Roof-perimeter citation vacated under measurement exception
OSHA inspected after a Seyforth Roofing employee fell from a 12-story roof while measuring an area near the perimeter. The company normally used warning lines and a safety monitor, but the lines had been removed for high winds and the day's planned work was on a penthouse away from the roof edge…
New England Roofing and Sheet Metal Co.
Roof fall-protection citations affirmed, $2,500
New England Roofing and Sheet Metal Co. was doing built-up roofing on a five-story building in New Haven, Connecticut. An OSHA compliance officer driving by looked up, saw workers at the edge of the roughly 60-foot-high roof, and went up to inspect. He found employees working near the unprotected…
Allstate Roofing, Inc.
Willful roof-fall violation affirmed with reduced penalty
Allstate Roofing had about five employees working on a nearly flat roof that measured 200 by 120 feet and was 20 feet above the ground. OSHA observed employees without the fall protection required for built-up roofing work, including one worker who came within about three feet of an unguarded edge…
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.