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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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  • Construction Worker Dies After Falling 21 Feet From A Load Of Lumber On a Forklift Truck
    Construction Worker Dies After Falling 21 Feet From A Load Of Lumber On a Forklift Truck
    New Jersey Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (NJ FACE)  ...
    1998/08/20 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    February 21, 1998, a 39-year-old construction worker died after falling from a load of lumber on a forklift truck. The incident occurred at the construction site of a private home as the victim and his co-workers were unloading wood beams raised to a second story window on a forklift. After starting to pull the heavy beams from inside the house, th ...
  • Iron Worker Dies After Falling 17 Feet While Building a Roof
    Iron Worker Dies After Falling 17 Feet While Building a Roof
    New Jersey Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (NJ FACE)  ...
    1998/08/19 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On September 21, 1997, a 44-year-old iron worker was fatally injured after falling through a roof opening of a building under construction. The incident occurred while the victim and his co-workers were laying steel roof decking sheets at the site of a new retail store. The crew had finished decking a section of the roof and was covering up a roof ...
  • Farmer Killed in Tractor Rollover 98NE012
    Farmer Killed in Tractor Rollover [98NE012]
    Nebraska Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (Nebraska FACE)  ...
    1998/08/10 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    An 86-year-old farmer was killed when the tractor he was operating rolled down a 20 foot embankment. The tractor did not have a Rollover Protective Structure (ROPS) and the tractor crushed the victim as it rolled over him. he victim had been building a dam of soil and rocks. He was leveling the top of the dam with a blade attached to the back of th ...
  • Construction Worker Dies After Being Struck By Plywood That Fell From Work Platform
    Construction Worker Dies After Being Struck By Plywood That Fell From Work Platform
    Parker, David L. ;
    Wahl, George
    1998/08/10 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 69-year-old male carpenter (victim) died after he was struck by several sheets of plywood that fell from a forklift. The victim and five other carpenters were working on a two-story townhouse. Two workers placed approximately 30 sheets of plywood onto a portable work platform and used a forklift to lift it to the edge of the roof. While two worke ...
  • Worker Asphyxiated When Caught in Rotating Shaft of Cable Reel Trailer
    Worker Asphyxiated When Caught in Rotating Shaft of Cable Reel Trailer
    Bost, Patrick ;
    O'Leary, Kathleen
    1998/08/03 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On December 6, 1997, a 26-year-old telecommunications company worker died from injuries sustained when his hand became entangled in a tape he was winding around an unguarded shaft on a cable reel trailer. His clothing also became entangled and he was pulled against the machine. The rotating shaft was normally used for mounting collapsible power ree ...
  • Painter falls 24feet from a ladder placed on mobile tubular steel scaffold
    Painter falls 24-feet from a ladder placed on mobile tubular steel scaffold
    Maryland Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Program (Maryland FACE)  ...
    1998/07/24 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On Thursday, April 16, 1998, a 44-year-old painter received fatal injuries when he fell 24-feet to the sidewalk. The victim and the owner/proprietor of a very small contracting/home improvement business, had erected a tubular steel scaffold in preparation for painting the wood trim on a city row house. The scaffold was one frame long and wide (appr ...
  • Electrical Mechanic Dies After 45Foot Fall Through Unguarded Floor Opening North Carolina FACE 9811
    Electrical Mechanic Dies After 45-Foot Fall Through Unguarded Floor Opening - North Carolina: FACE 98-11
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1998/07/24 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 57-year-old male electrical mechanic (the victim) died after falling through an unguarded floor opening. The victim was measuring, cutting, and color-coding electrical cable with two coworkers on the unfinished fourth floor of the building at the time of the incident. The floor measured 108 feet wide by 300 feet long and contained 1 unguarded ope ...
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  • Tree Cutter Dies After Being Struck by Log That Fell From Logging Truck in West Virginia
    Tree Cutter Dies After Being Struck by Log That Fell From Logging Truck in West Virginia
    West Virginia Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (West Virginia FACE)  ...
    1998/07/16 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On March 24, 1998, a 39-year-old male tree cutter (the victim) died of injuries sustained when he was struck by a log which had fallen from the top of a loaded log truck. Just prior to the incident, the victim had finished cutting for the day and returned to landing. Evidence suggests that he approached a truck which had been previously loaded and ...
  • Laborerhelper falls through opening in warehouse roof to the floor below and dies in California
    Laborer/helper falls through opening in warehouse roof to the floor below and dies in California
    Guerriero, Judie ;
    Harrison, Robert
    1998/07/16 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 40-year-old laborer/helper died when he fell through the opening in a warehouse roof approximately 27 feet to the floor below. The employer was demolishing the roof of the warehouse portion of a commercial building. The decedent had picked up a 4X8 foot sheet of damaged plywood and began to walk away when he fell through the opening in the roof. ...
  • Construction Laborer Dies After Being Run Over by Asphalt Roller at Highway Construction Site Virginia FACE 9806
    Construction Laborer Dies After Being Run Over by Asphalt Roller at Highway Construction Site - Virginia: FACE 98-06
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1998/07/13 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On October 23, 1997, a 37-year-old male construction laborer (the victim) died after being run over by an asphalt roller during a highway paving operation. A seven-person crew was engaged in paving the westbound lanes of a four-lane U.S. highway. At the time of the incident, the crew was paving the right lane and traffic was moving in the left lane ...
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  • Worker Run Over by Compactor at Landfill
    Worker Run Over by Compactor at Landfill
    Hetzler, William E. ;
    Hirsh, Gary L.
    1998/07/09 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 54-year-old self-employed trash hauler was killed when he was run over by a 55-ton trash compactor at a county landfill. He had dumped a load of trash and was searching for the rakes he and his coworker had used to clear the trash out of the truck. He was at the rear of the load he had just dumped when the incident occurred. One of two compactors ...
  • Municipal Road Worker Run Over by a Leaf Vacuuming Truck
    Municipal Road Worker Run Over by a Leaf Vacuuming Truck
    New Jersey Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (NJ FACE)  ...
    1998/07/09 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On December 8, 1997, a 57-year-old municipal road worker was killed when he was run over by a leaf vacuuming truck. The incident occurred on a residential street as the victim and a co-worker were picking up leaves piled at the curbside by the homeowners. The victim worked beside the truck, using a large vacuum hose connected to the vacuum machine. ...
  • Worker fatally mauled by brown bear
    Worker fatally mauled by brown bear
    Beller, Michael ;
    Choromanski, Deborah
    1998/07/08 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A worker was killed when he was mauled by a brown bear. The attack occurred while the victim and other members of a six-man crew were setting recording lines and sensors for a seismic exploration project. The crew was walking down a flagged trail, unaware that a bear den was approximately 40 feet away. As they passed the den, the bear emerged and a ...
  • Scaffold Erector Dies After Falling 60 Feet from Scaffold Inside Boiler South Carolina FACE 9808
    Scaffold Erector Dies After Falling 60 Feet from Scaffold Inside Boiler - South Carolina: FACE 98-08
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1998/07/07 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 24-year-old male scaffold erector (the victim) died after falling from a 60-foot-high scaffold that had been erected inside a cogeneration boiler at a paper-manufacturing plant. The victim was one of eight workers erecting a steel-tubular scaffold inside a cogeneration boiler that was to undergo a 3-day service. The scaffold had been erected to a ...
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  • A cross tie processor working at an east Texas sawmill died when struck by a guard thrown from a wood chipper machine as he stood at his work station
    A cross tie processor working at an east Texas sawmill died when struck by a guard thrown from a wood chipper machine as he stood at his work station.
    Texas Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (Texas FACE)  ...
    1998/07/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 34-year-old cross tie processor died when he was struck in the back of the head by a steel hood thrown from a wood chipper machine. The victim was at his assigned location waiting for cross ties to arrive so he could cut them to the desired length. The wood chipper was located approximately 30 feet away from him. The victim was facing away from t ...
  • An industrial truck operator was crushed when the forklift he was driving down a ramp skidded off a ramp and tipped over and pinned him between the forklift the ground and a parked car
    An industrial truck operator was crushed when the forklift he was driving down a ramp skidded off a ramp and tipped over and pinned him between the forklift, the ground and a parked car
    Goddard, Keith L. ;
    Weber, Philip P.
    1998/07/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On Thursday, January 15, 1998, a 33-year-old male industrial truck operator (the victim) was fatally injured when the forklift he was driving down a ramp, lost traction and skidded off the side of the ramp. He was bringing the forklift out of the building, where it had been stored overnight, into the yard where it was to be used during the day. Aft ...
  • Security Guard Run Over by Own Truck
    Security Guard Run Over by Own Truck
    Nebraska Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (Nebraska FACE)  ...
    1998/06/24 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 55-year-old security officer was killed when he was apparently run over by the pickup truck he had been driving. He was patrolling a municipal power maintenance facility when the incident occurred. He apparently backed into a trailer and damaged the driver side door of the pickup and then drove the truck approximately 50-60 feet away from the tra ...
  • Frontend loader operator dies when crushed between the front bucket of the loader and a lowboy trailer at a cattle feed lot in Texas
    Front-end loader operator dies when crushed between the front bucket of the loader and a low-boy trailer at a cattle feed lot in Texas.
    Texas Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (Texas FACE)  ...
    1998/06/24 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On December 17, 1997, a 44-year-old front-end loader operator (the victim) died after he was crushed between the bucket of a front-end loader and a low-boy trailer. The victim and five coworkers were preparing to unload pipe off of a low-boy trailer. The victim, operating a front-end loader, had been instructed by the job superintendent to remain i ...
  • Roofer Dies After Falling 41 Feet Through an Airport Hangar Roof
    Roofer Dies After Falling 41 Feet Through an Airport Hangar Roof
    New Jersey Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (NJ FACE)  ...
    1998/06/22 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On November 13, 1997, a 41-year-old apprentice roofer was critically injured after falling through the roof of an aircraft hangar. The victim and a crew of 14 roofers were engaged in removing the old roofing membrane and insulation from a county airport hangar. The hangar was a large, wood-truss constructed building covered with wood planking. Most ...
  • Tree Feller Killed When Struck by Chain Saw West Virginia FACE 9809
    Tree Feller Killed When Struck by Chain Saw - West Virginia: FACE 98-09
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1998/06/16 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 52-year-old male tree feller (the victim) was fatally injured after being struck in the right thigh with a chain saw. Prior to the incident, the victim and his son had been harvesting hardwood trees for saw timber, over a period of approximately 5 months, on a 49-acre site. At the time of the incident, the victim's son was away from the cutting a ...
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