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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Richard Kenda Farms
Field water violation affirmed, two sanitation items vacated
Richard Kenda Farms used seasonal workers to hand harvest vegetables in Florida fields. The judge found that potable water was sometimes not brought to workers until one to four hours after harvesting began in hot conditions, so he affirmed that violation as serious. He vacated the single-use cup…
Advanta USA, Inc.
Field sanitation violations yield $3,100 penalty
Advanta used contract crews to detassel seed corn but did not consistently provide enough single-use drinking cups. Toilet and handwashing facilities were also more than one-quarter mile from workers in several fields. The judge rejected Advanta's terrain and infeasibility arguments because…
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review, an ALJ decision becomes a final order under 29 U.S.C. § 661(j): it binds the parties in that case but is not binding precedent in other cases.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.