# Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission

> The Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission (FMSHRC) is an independent U.S.
> adjudicative agency that provides administrative trial and appellate review of legal
> disputes arising under the Federal Mine Safety and Health Amendments Act of 1977 (the
> Mine Act). It adjudicates contests of citations, orders and civil penalties issued by
> the Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA); it does not
> regulate mining or enforce the Mine Act itself.

## Machine-readable surface

FMSHRC publishes **no public API**. As of 2026-09-09 there is no developer program, no
OpenAPI/Swagger/GraphQL/AsyncAPI contract, no MCP server, no A2A agent card, no SDK on any
public package registry, and no /.well-known/ discovery document on any FMSHRC host. The
public website is Drupal 10 with its JSON:API and REST modules disabled: /jsonapi, /api,
/rest, /graphql, /data.json and /openapi.json all return 404, and a node fetched with
?_format=json returns HTTP 406 ("A route that returns a rendered array as its response only
supports the HTML format"). Case documents and decisions are published as HTML pages and
PDFs on fmshrc.gov, not through a programmable interface.

The agency's Electronic Case Management System (e-CMS) is a vendor-hosted tenant at
fmshrc-ecms.entellitrak.com (Entellitrak, Tyler Technologies). Its root redirects to a
credentialed login form. It is a filing application for parties to a case, not an API, and
anything it served would belong to the vendor rather than to FMSHRC.

The one machine-consumable feed the site does publish is a site-content RSS feed at
https://www.fmshrc.gov/rss.xml (application/rss+xml).

## Where the case record lives

- [Decisions](https://www.fmshrc.gov/decisions): index of Commission and ALJ decisions.
- [Review Commission Decisions](https://www.fmshrc.gov/decisions/commission): decisions of the Commission itself.
- [ALJ Decisions](https://www.fmshrc.gov/decisions/alj): administrative law judge decisions.
- [Blue Books](https://www.fmshrc.gov/decisions/bluebook): bound volumes of Commission decisions.
- [Cases Currently on Review](https://www.fmshrc.gov/content/cases-currently-review-commission-2): docket of matters pending before the Commission.
- [Commission Decisions on Appeal](https://www.fmshrc.gov/content/commission-decisions-appeal-0): matters on appeal to the federal courts.
- [Oral Arguments and Meetings](https://www.fmshrc.gov/meetings-arguments): scheduled arguments and Sunshine Act meetings.

## Filing and procedure

- [Instructions for Electronic Filing](https://www.fmshrc.gov/guides/instructions-electronic-filing): how to file through e-CMS.
- [Guide to Commission Proceedings](https://www.fmshrc.gov/guides/guide-commission-proceedings)
- [How a Case Proceeds Before the Commission](https://www.fmshrc.gov/guides/how-case-proceeds-commission)
- [Requests to Reopen](https://www.fmshrc.gov/content/requests-reopen)
- [Section 105(c)(3) Complaints](https://www.fmshrc.gov/content/section-105c3-complaints): miner discrimination complaints.
- [The Mine Act and Procedural Rules](https://www.fmshrc.gov/mine-act-procedural-rules)
- [Frequently Asked Questions](https://www.fmshrc.gov/content/frequently-asked-questions)

## Records access

- [Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)](https://www.fmshrc.gov/foia): the statutory route to records that are not published.
- [FOIA Request Form](https://www.fmshrc.gov/foia/foia-request-form)
- [FOIA Library / E-Reading Room](https://www.fmshrc.gov/content/foia-library)
- [FOIA Guide](https://www.fmshrc.gov/guides/foia-guide)

## Security and policy

- [Vulnerability Disclosure Policy](https://www.fmshrc.gov/content/vulnerability-disclosure-policy): CISA BOD 20-01 policy, January 2024. Scope is fmshrc.gov; reports go to ITSecurity@fmshrc.gov; good-faith research is authorized with safe harbor.
- [Privacy Policy](https://www.fmshrc.gov/content/fmshrc-privacy-policy)
- [Accessibility](https://www.fmshrc.gov/content/accessibility) and [Section 508](https://www.fmshrc.gov/content/section-508)
- [Digital Analytics Program](https://www.fmshrc.gov/content/digital-analytics-program)

## Contact

- [Contact Us](https://www.fmshrc.gov/content/contact-us) — 1331 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Suite 520N, Washington, DC 20004-1710; +1 202-434-9900; fmshrc@fmshrc.gov
- [Latest FMSHRC News](https://www.fmshrc.gov/about/news)
- Offices: [Washington, DC](https://www.fmshrc.gov/offices/headquarter/washington-dc), [Denver, CO](https://www.fmshrc.gov/offices/satellite-office/denver-co), [Pittsburgh, PA](https://www.fmshrc.gov/offices/satellite-office/pittsburgh-pa)

## Provenance

This file was GENERATED by API Evangelist from the agency's own public website and from the
artifacts in this repository. It is a third-party description; FMSHRC does not publish an
llms.txt of its own (https://www.fmshrc.gov/llms.txt returns 404). Every fmshrc.gov link
listed above was fetched on 2026-09-09 and returned HTTP 200.