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ALJ Decision in Hall Trucking, Inc., OSHRC Docket No. 23-0764, Becomes a Final Order of the Commission.
July 14, 2025Respondent is a heavy haul trucking company that specializes in moving oil and gas drilling rig equipment.1 (Tr. 35-36, 215). Respondent employs approximately 100 employees, including, as is relevant to this case, swampers, truck pushers, and truck drivers. (Tr. 46-47,…
ALJ Decision in TCP Specialists, LLC, OSHRC Docket No. 23-1002, Becomes a Final Order of the Commission.
June 13, 2025The Blackstone B1 well was a horizontal gas well located in San Augustine County, Texas, (the “worksite”) operated by C6 Operating, LLC. Stip. Fact ¶6. In October 2022, production from the well dropped and C6 hired contractors to perform a…
ALJ Decision in Signet Construction, LLC, OSHRC Docket No. 23-0339, Becomes a Final Order of the Commission.
June 13, 2025In September of 2022, Respondent, Signet Construction, LLC (“Signet”) was in the process of constructing a large dairy barn for a company called Blooming Valley Dairy (“Blooming Valley Barn” or “Barn”) in rural South Dakota. (Tr. 13, 61, 66-68, 72,…
ALJ Decision in Premier Bulk Stevedoring, LLC, OSHRC Docket No. 23-0539, Becomes a Final Order of the Commission.
June 13, 2025Pending in the above-styled action is Respondent Premier Bulk Stevedoring, LLC’s Motion for Partial Summary Judgment1 and the Secretary of Labor’s response in opposition. For the reasons indicated infra, the Court concludes there is no genuine dispute as to material…
ALJ Decision in Masis Staffing Solutions, LLC, OSHRC Docket No. 23-1655, Becomes a Final Order of the Commission.
June 12, 2025A worker of Respondent Masis Staffing Solutions, LLC, (“Masis”) was seriously injured when a 2,000-pound bundle of trusses fell on him in Gainesville, Florida. The United States Department of Labor, through the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”), investigated the…
ALJ Decision in Pettengill Family Restoration, LLC, OSHRC Docket Nos. 23-1249, 23-1380, 23-1656, and 24-0353, Becomes a Final Order of the Commission.
June 9, 2025PFR is a construction company that specialized in framing panelized or “kit” houses.2 (Tr. 547). ….. . (J. Stip. 2, 3). PFR was hired as a subcontractor by Framing Specialists, Inc., to frame and assemble kit houses at various construction…
ALJ Decision in Magic Valley Crushing & Excavation, LLC, dba The Rock Yard, OSHRC Docket No. 23-0819, Becomes a Final Order of the Commission.
May 29, 2025Respondent is an excavation company operating in Filer, Idaho. In addition to excavating, crushing, and hauling rock and gravel, Respondent also sells landscaping products in its small retail store called The Rock Yard. (Tr. 326.) The Rock Yard is a…
ALJ Decision in Precision Refractory Services, OSHRC Docket No. 23-0121, Becomes a Final Order of the Commission.
May 19, 2025During the early morning hours of November 12, 2022, a Precision Refractory Services, LLC, (PRS) employee was seriously injured when a scaffold component rolled off the upper level of the scaffold under which he had been working and struck his…
ALJ Decision in 595 Construction LLC, OSHRC Docket Nos. 25-0120, 25-0121, and 25-0122, Becomes a Final Order of the Commission.
May 5, 2025This proceeding is before the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (the “Commission”) pursuant to § 10(c) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, 29 U.S.C. § 651 et seq. (the “Act”) due to the untimely filing of…
Cynthia L. Attwood, Chairman of the Review Commission, Retires
April 28, 2025Cynthia L. Attwood, Chairman of the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, retired on April 27, 2025, at the end of her third term. Ms. Attwood was first appointed to the Commission by President Barack Obama in 2010, was reappointed…