The Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission is an independent federal agency, providing administrative trial and appellate review, created to decide contests of citations or penalties resulting from OSHA inspections of American work places. The Review Commission functions as a two-tiered administrative court, with established procedures for (1) conducting hearings, receiving evidence and rendering decisions by its Administrative Law Judges (ALJs) and (2) discretionary review of ALJ decisions by a panel of Commissioners.
DECISION This case involves a citation issued to Nuprecon LP ("Nuprecon") under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, 29 U.S.C. §§ 651-678, alleging that Nuprecon failed to protect employees from a fall hazard in violation of 29 C.F.R. § 1926.501(b)(1). This matter is before the Commission for the second time.
DECISION At issue before the Commission is a serious citation issued by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration ("OSHA") under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, 29 U.S.C. §§ 651-678, alleging that Shaw Areva Mox Services, LLC ("Shaw Areva") failed to ground an electrical adaptor and the plug of a fuel pump cord in violation of 29 C.F.R. § 1926.404(f)(6). OSHA issued the citation following an inspection of a worksite in Aiken, South Carolina where Shaw Areva was constructing a nuclear fuel conversion facility.
PRESS RELEASE Judge Keith E. Bell has joined the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission as an Administrative Law Judge at the Review Commission’s National Office. Prior to joining the Review Commission, Judge Bell was an administrative law judge at the Social Security Administration’s Office of Disability Adjudication and Review where he heard and decided cases on appeal.
DECISION AND ORDER This proceeding is before the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (“the Commission”) under section 10(c) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, 29 U.S.C. § 651 et seq. (“the Act”). The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) inspected a work site of All Steel Consultants, Inc. (“All Steel” or “Respondent”) on August 12, 2010.
DECISION ON REMAND This proceeding is before the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission ("the Commission") pursuant to section 10(c) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, 29 U.S.C. § 651 et seq. ("the Act"). On October 4, 2010, I issued a decision and order affirming a citation issued to Boh Brothers Construction Co., LLC ("Boh Brothers") alleging a violation of 29 C.F.R. § 1926.502(d)(8).
BRIEFING NOTICE The Commission requests that the parties brief the issues presented in the Complainant's Petition for Discretionary Review and in the Respondent's Statement in Opposition to Petition for Discretionary Review.1 All briefs are to be filed in accordance with Commission Rule 93.2 The first brief is to be filed within 40 days of this notice.