MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary="----=_NextPart_01C93FFC.D5614540" This document is a Single File Web Page, also known as a Web Archive file. If you are seeing this message, your browser or editor doesn't support Web Archive files. Please download a browser that supports Web Archive, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer. ------=_NextPart_01C93FFC.D5614540 Content-Location: file:///C:/50E8AEED/07-0252rem.htm.htm Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" SECRETARY OF LABOR,= Complainant, v. OSHRC Docket No. 07= -0252 PRIME ROOFING CORPO= RATION, Respondent. APPEARANCES: Lee Grabel, Attorney; Jonathan L. Snare, Acting Solicitor of Labor; U.S. Department of Labor, Washingt= on, DC For the Complainant William A. Seppala, /pro se/, Prime Roofing Corporation; New Ipswich, NH <= /span> For the Respondent *DIRECTION FOR REVIEW AND REMAND OR= DER* Before: THOMPSON, Chairman; ROGERS, Commissioner. BY THE COMMISSION: = On January 17, 2007, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) issued Prime Roofing Corporation (“PRC”) a citation alleging a repeat violation of 29 C.F.R. § 1926.501(b)(1= ). After holding a hearing on the mat= ter on June 26, 2007, Administrative Law Judge Covette Rooney sent her decision and order vacating the citation to the parties on September 18, 2007. On September 27, 2007, the Secreta= ry filed a Motion to Amend Pleadings with the judge based upon Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 15(b), in which she moves to amend her complaint to allege,= in the alternative, a violation of 29 C.F.R. § 1926.501(b)(10). Without ruling on the Secretary= 217;s motion, the judge submitted her decision to the Executive Secretary for docketing on September 28, 2007. On this same date, PRC, appearing /pro se/, filed a letter with the judge requesting that she deny the Secretary’s motion to amend. <= /span>Subsequently, on October 9, 2007, the Secretary filed with the Commission the same motion= she sent to the judge along with an accompanying cover letter, requesting that = the Commission consider the two documents as her Petition for Discretionary Review. On October 29, 2007, the Commission received a Statement in Opposition to Petition from PRC requesting the Commission deny the Secretary’s motion to amend. = Under Commission Rule of Procedure 90(b)(2), the judge first sends a copy of his = or her decision to each party and subsequently files the decision with the Executive Secretary for docketing. <= /span>29 C.F.R. § 2200.90(b)(2). Here, the judge did not receive the Secretary’s motion to amend until the day before she filed the decision with the Executive Secretary for docketing, and she received PRC’s response to the motion the following day. As the judge’s dec= ision was filed with the Executive Secretary the day after the judge received the Secretary’s motion, the judge did not have a full opportunity to pass upon the motion or PRC’s opposition filing. Further, Commission Rule of Procedure 92(c) provides that “[t]he Commission wi= ll ordinarily not review issues that the [j]udge did not have the opportunity = to pass upon.” 29 C.F.R. &= sect; 2200.92(c); /accord Saipan-Koreana H= otel/, 21 BNA OSHC 1403, 1405 (No. 02-2129, 2006) (remanding case because judge did not have the opportunity to pass upon certain issues). Accordingly, we direct this cas= e for review and remand the matter to the judge to allow for full consideration of the Secretary’s motion to amend. <= /span> SO ORDERED. &n= bsp; = ; &n= bsp; = ; &n= bsp; = ; BY DIRECTION OF THE COMMISSION = &nb= sp; = &nb= sp; = &nb= sp; = /s/ Date: October 31, 2007 &n= bsp; = ; &n= bsp; = ; Ray H. Darling, Jr. = &nb= sp; = &nb= sp; = &nb= sp; = Executive Secretary ------=_NextPart_01C93FFC.D5614540 Content-Location: file:///C:/50E8AEED/07-0252rem.htm_files/header.htm Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PAGE= PAGE 2= ------=_NextPart_01C93FFC.D5614540 Content-Location: file:///C:/50E8AEED/07-0252rem.htm_files/filelist.xml Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8" ------=_NextPart_01C93FFC.D5614540--