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Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program

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U.S. workplace deaths remain a public health crisis, with over 5,000 annual fatalities concentrated in high-risk sectors like construction, transportation, and agriculture. To address this under the OSH Act, NIOSH runs the Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) program, a non-regulatory initiative providing safety guidance through independent, non-enforcement investigations. Structurally, FACE operates as a unified effort split into two distinct, complementary branches: a centralized, national In-House program run directly by NIOSH, and a decentralized network of State FACE programs funded via cooperative agreements. While both share common goals and methods, they differ significantly in their organizational structure, authority, influence, and how they implement findings locally across diverse regional industries. Together, they generate extensive prevention resources and adapt to emerging workplace hazards.

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  • Electrician Killed After ATV He Was Operating Overturned
    Electrician Killed After ATV He Was Operating Overturned
    Minnesota Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Program (MN FACE)  ...
    1999/03/29 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 51 year-old electrician died of injuries sustained when the all terrain vehicle (ATV) he was driving overturned. Shortly before the incident occurred, the victim and another electrician were working on an electrical project at one facility on the business property. While working they determined that they needed to go to another facility on the pr ...
  • Equipment operator dies when ejected from and run over by his pavement compactor in California
    Equipment operator dies when ejected from and run over by his pavement compactor in California
    Harrison, Robert ;
    Styles, Laura
    1999/03/26 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 46-year-old male equipment operator (decedent) died after being run over by the rear wheels of his pavement compactor during an asphalt paving job. The decedent was being followed by a co-worker driving another pavement compactor. The transmission of the co-worker's compactor was taken out of gear by the co-worker in an attempt to shift to first ...
  • Mechanic Killed While Dismantling Paper Baler
    Mechanic Killed While Dismantling Paper Baler
    Hetzler, William E. ;
    Hirsh, Gary L.
    1999/03/25 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 36-year-old mechanic was killed when a 1,250 pound cyclone fell, throwing him to the floor. He was in the process of dismantling a paper/cardboard baling machine. On February 12, 1999, the victim and a coworker were removing a six-foot section of a feed chute that connected the cyclone to the baler. The weight of the cyclone was resting on the fe ...
  • Laborer falls through skylight opening in warehouse roof to the ground below and dies in California
    Laborer falls through skylight opening in warehouse roof to the ground below and dies in California
    Harrison, Robert ;
    Styles, Laura
    1999/03/24 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 39-year-old laborer (decedent) died when he fell through an opening in a warehouse roof 20 feet, 7 inches to the ground below. The employer was demolishing the roof of a warehouse. The decedent had removed the skylight covering the opening and was in the process of removing ventilation equipment. As he was walking and changing the socket on his p ...
  • Structural ironworker foreman falls off beams of warehouse roof to the floor below and dies in California
    Structural ironworker foreman falls off beams of warehouse roof to the floor below and dies in California
    Harrison, Robert ;
    Styles, Laura
    1999/03/24 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 42-year-old structural ironworker foreman (decedent) died when he fell off steel beams in an incomplete warehouse roof approximately 38 feet to the floor below. The employer was installing the final structural steel beam (bar joist) in the roof of a new cold storage warehouse under construction. After a crane had lifted a beam into place, the dec ...
  • Crane operatorforeman is impaled and dies when moving crane strikes gate in California
    Crane operator/foreman is impaled and dies when moving crane strikes gate in California
    Harrison, Robert ;
    Styles, Laura
    1999/03/24 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 46-year-old crane operator/foreman (decedent) died when he struck a partially open gate with a moving crane and the end of the gate came into the cab and impaled him. The decedent was driving the crane back from a job in the darkness of the morning when he struck the end of the partially open gate. The crane was moving at 20 miles per hour and ha ...
  • Tile Roofer Supervisor falls from roof of multistory building and dies in California
    Tile Roofer Supervisor falls from roof of multi-story building and dies in California
    Harrison, Robert ;
    Styles, Laura
    1999/03/23 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 38-year-old tile roofer supervisor (decedent) died when he fell from the second story of a performing arts building that was being remodeled. The decedent and a co-worker were finishing the installation of twist-tie (riness) wires on the third story of the building. The clay tiles they were installing are tied off to the riness wire. The ends of ...
  • Pipefitter dies from 40foot fall
    Pipefitter dies from 40-foot fall
    Alaska Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (Alaska FACE)  ...
    1999/03/22 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 32-year-old journeyman pipefitter was killed when he fell 40 feet from a metal roof. The pipefitter (the victim) had climbed onto the roof to direct the placement of a tool case on top of a scaffold platform. The victim was wearing a body harness with an attached lanyard but was not secured to a lifeline or the scaffold. The lift operation requir ...
  • Tractor operator backs into tree branch and is crushed against steering wheel
    Tractor operator backs into tree branch and is crushed against steering wheel.
    Johnson, Wayne ;
    Rautiainen, Risto
    1999/03/21 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    During the fall of 1998 a 65-year-old tractor operator was killed when he backed into a tree branch and was pinned between the branch and the tractor's steering wheel. The tractor was a late 50's model equipped with a front-end loader. The man was working for a trucking company which buys and resells corncobs. He was working alone loading corncobs ...
  • Knotted Log Rolls Off Truck and Kills Logger at Sawmill
    Knotted Log Rolls Off Truck and Kills Logger at Sawmill
    Kentucky Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (KY FACE)  ...
    1999/03/12 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 42-year-old logger (the victim) was killed when he was struck by a log rolling off a loaded truck at a sawmill. At about 6:10 a.m., the victim and the truck driver arrived at the sawmill with a load of logs on the 20-foot flatbed truck. The stack of logs was rounded above the height of the 53-inch standards and secured by only one chain on the mi ...
  • Youth farm worker is killed when he becomes entangled in PTO driveline of an old grindermixer
    Youth farm worker is killed when he becomes entangled in PTO driveline of an old grinder-mixer.
    Johnson, Wayne ;
    Rautiainen, Risto
    1999/03/05 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    In January 1999, a 17-year-old high school student working part-time for a dairy farmer was killed when his clothing was caught by the unshielded power take-off (PTO) driveline of a grinder-mixer. He had been helping the farmer add sacks of feed supplement to ground corn in the mixer. The task was almost complete and the farmer was closing the hamm ...
  • Worker Suffocated When Engulfed in a Sand Hopper
    Worker Suffocated When Engulfed in a Sand Hopper
    New Jersey Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (NJ FACE)  ...
    1999/02/26 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On June 6, 1998, a 56-year-old worker died when he was engulfed by sand in a hopper at a concrete pipe manufacturing company. His job as a "material man" was to direct the flow of sand and gravel from storage bins to hoppers housed in a shed on top of the plant. Since there was only one conveyor that moved sand and gravel from storage bins to the s ...
  • Carpenter Dies After Falling Into a Stairwell While Installing a Staircase
    Carpenter Dies After Falling Into a Stairwell While Installing a Staircase
    New Jersey Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (NJ FACE)  ...
    1999/02/26 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On June 12, 1998, a 44-year-old carpenter died after falling 21 feet into a stairwell while trying to install a wooden staircase. The victim was helping to install the stairs at the construction site of a single-family home. He and a co-worker were attempting to install a pre-made flight of stairs into the stairwell when the stairs slipped. The vic ...
  • SelfEmployed Electrician Dies While Driving Aerial Lift in Parking Garage
    Self-Employed Electrician Dies While Driving Aerial Lift in Parking Garage
    Massachusetts Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Project (Massachusetts FACE)  ...
    1999/02/25 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On October 3, 1998, a 39 year old male self-employed electrician died of injuries sustained when he struck his head on a steel overhead beam while driving an aerial lift truck. The incident occurred in a privately-owned parking garage where the victim had been contracted to change the ballasts in light fixtures located on the top floor (roof) of th ...
  • Building Maintenance Worker Dies After Falling Down a Material Lift Shaft
    Building Maintenance Worker Dies After Falling Down a Material Lift Shaft
    New Jersey Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (NJ FACE)  ...
    1999/02/24 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On July 27, 1998, a 64-year-old building maintenance worker was fatally injured after falling nine feet down the shaft of a material lift. The victim was a self-employed construction contractor who maintained a six-story building that housed a restaurant and office spaces. An experienced construction worker, he renovated most of the building and ha ...
  • Equipment Operator Crushed When Chimney Falls on Hydraulic Excavator Virginia FACE 9818
    Equipment Operator Crushed When Chimney Falls on Hydraulic Excavator - Virginia: FACE 98-18
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1999/02/24 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On July 2, 1998, a 37-year-old male equipment operator (the victim) was crushed in the cab of a track-mounted hydraulic excavator (Backhoe) when a brick chimney toppled over and struck the machine during demolition operations. The victim and a co-worker, a truck driver, were in the final stages of demolishing a 2 1/2-story stone and stone veneer ho ...
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  • Farmer Dies After Falling 45 Feet From Silo 99MN00701
    Farmer Dies After Falling 45 Feet From Silo [99MN00701]
    Brown, Margee ;
    Parker, David L.
    1999/02/22 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 45-year-old farmer (victim) died from injuries sustained when he fell 45 feet from a silo. On the morning of the incident, the victim had climbed up the enclosed silo ladder to check the level of corn inside the silo. The day before the incident occurred, the victim and his brother had been filling the silo with shelled corn. Shortly after openin ...
  • A fitter working for a steel building manufacturer in Texas died when a 7800 pound rafter fell on him
    A fitter working for a steel building manufacturer in Texas, died when a 7,800 pound rafter fell on him.
    Texas Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (Texas FACE)  ...
    1999/02/18 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On May 21, 1998, a 32-year-old fitter for a steel building manufacturer died when a 7,800 lb. rafter fell onto him. The victim was using a floor-operated overhead crane with a grabber device attached to a hook to move the steel rafter to a fitter station. He placed the rafter, which was 49 feet in length, in a vertical position on two 2 by 6 steel ...
  • Farmer falls to his death from a combine during maintenance
    Farmer falls to his death from a combine during maintenance
    Johnson, Wayne ;
    Rautiainen, Risto
    1999/02/18 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 74-year-old Iowa farmer fell to his death while getting his combine ready for an auction sale. He had retired one year ago, rented out his land, but was still living on the farm. He was now selling the remaining farm machinery and equipment. He was doing maintenance work on a 1969 model combine which was sitting in his farm yard on a concrete pat ...
  • Farmer Dies After Becoming Entangled In A Rotating Shaft Of A Beet Lifter
    Farmer Dies After Becoming Entangled In A Rotating Shaft Of A Beet Lifter
    Parker, David L. ;
    Wahl, George
    1999/02/17 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 20-year-old male farmer (victim) died after he became entangled in a rotating shaft of a beet lifter. On the day of the incident, the victim was harvesting beets in a farm field. The beet lifter was pulled by a farm tractor through the field to harvest beets. While harvesting beets a portion of the beet lifter known as the grab rollers became clo ...
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