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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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  • Worker Dies After Falling 15 Feet From An Extension Ladder
    Worker Dies After Falling 15 Feet From An Extension Ladder
    Brown, Margee ;
    Parker, David L.
    1998/06/08 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 45-year-old roofing worker (victim) died of injuries he sustained when he fell 15 feet while from an aluminum extension ladder. The victim had just finished work for the day and was climbing down the ladder. He had been laying the roof on a 160,000 square foot new construction building. The extension ladder consisted of two 20 foot sections that ...
  • Farmer Dies When Caught Beneath Overturned Tractor
    Farmer Dies When Caught Beneath Overturned Tractor
    Kentucky Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (KY FACE)  ...
    1998/06/08 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 68-year-old male farmer was killed when the tractor he was operating overturned and pinned him underneath. He had been plowing in preparation for corn planting and apparently was on his way to check on the cattle after finishing in the field. As he traveled down a hillside on the tractor with the plow attached, he turned the vehicle sharply to th ...
  • Migrant Worker Killed in 22Foot Fall Inside Building
    Migrant Worker Killed in 22-Foot Fall Inside Building
    Kentucky Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (KY FACE)  ...
    1998/05/24 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 35-year-old male (the victim) died when he fell 22.5 feet from the third floor of a warehouse to the concrete floor of the first level. The building was being renovated, and the victim had been cleaning on the third floor, which extended only about halfway across the building. The edge of the floor on which the victim had been working was unprote ...
  • Construction Laborer Dies In Trench CaveIn At Oil Tank Removal Site in Massachusetts
    Construction Laborer Dies In Trench Cave-In At Oil Tank Removal Site in Massachusetts
    Massachusetts Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Project (Massachusetts FACE)  ...
    1998/05/20 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On August 4, 1997, a 17 year old construction laborer working with his father died of injuries sustained in a trench cave-in at an oil tank removal site. The victim was working in the trench cutting the rods which held the tank in the ground when the incident occurred. Without warning, the trench collapsed pushing the victim against the tank. He st ...
  • Farmer Run Over by Tractor
    Farmer Run Over by Tractor
    Kentucky Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (KY FACE)  ...
    1998/05/20 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    An 80-year-old male farmer (the victim) died when he was run over by the right rear wheel of his tractor. He had backed the tractor to the door of a shed in order to hook a tiller to it. After parking the tractor on a slight incline in front of the shed, he left it in neutral while he went inside for the tiller. The parking brake did not hold, howe ...
  • Tower Erector Dies After Falling 125 Feet from Cellular Phone Tower South Carolina FACE 9807
    Tower Erector Dies After Falling 125 Feet from Cellular Phone Tower - South Carolina: FACE 98-07
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1998/05/20 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 26-year-old male tower erector (the victim) died after falling 125 feet from a cellular phone tower. The victim was a member of a five-man crew that was erecting a 250-foot cellular phone tower. The victim was on the tower with another tower erector working from top to bottom, securing flexible electrical cables to two of the tower legs. The cabl ...
    Public Domain
  • Air Conditioning Worker Dies After Falling From a Fixed Ladder
    Air Conditioning Worker Dies After Falling From a Fixed Ladder
    New Jersey Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (NJ FACE)  ...
    1998/05/15 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On July 22, 1997, a 38-year-old air-conditioning service technician was killed after falling from a fixed industrial ladder leading to a roof hatch. The incident occurred at a clothing company warehouse where the victim and his co-workers were servicing the air-conditioning units on the roof of the building. After arriving at the worksite, the vict ...
  • Carpenter Dies in Fall Through Wall Opening in Factory Renovation Site
    Carpenter Dies in Fall Through Wall Opening in Factory Renovation Site
    Massachusetts Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Project (Massachusetts FACE)  ...
    1998/05/06 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On October 10, 1997, a 33 year old male carpenter was fatally injured when he fell through the open side of the third floor of a structure being renovated from a factory into an office building. The victim was working with two co-workers to place a 300 pound wooden box beam onto the roof eight and one-half feet above the floor using a manual hoist. ...
  • Injury Risk Factors Associated with Agricultural Workplace Fatalities
    Injury Risk Factors Associated with Agricultural Workplace Fatalities
    Hard, David L. ;
    Pratt, Stephanie G.
    1998/05/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    Agriculture has consistently ranked among the top four industries in both frequency and rate of death from workplace injuries. Analysis of a case series of 119 field investigations of occupational agricultural fatalities, conducted through the NIOSH State Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) program, indicated the presence of multiple ...
    Public Domain Peer Reviewed
  • Electrician apprentice dies when his neck is crushed by a scissor lift in California
    Electrician apprentice dies when his neck is crushed by a scissor lift in California
    California Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (CA/FACE)  ...
    1998/04/27 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 26-year-old electrician apprentice (decedent) died when the scissor lifts he was moving inadvertently raised causing his neck to be crushed between the top guard rail and the underside of the top of an opening in a concrete wall. The decedent was cleaning out bore holes in the concrete wall in anticipation of running conduit through them. The emp ...
  • Supervisor has head crushed by an injection molding machine when it cycles during setup in California
    Supervisor has head crushed by an injection molding machine when it cycles during set-up in California
    California Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (CA/FACE)  ...
    1998/04/27 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 33-year-old supervisor (decedent) died when his head was crushed between a hydraulic cylinder and a panel of a plastics injection molding machine. The decedent was setting-up the machine for a run and was in the process of tightening a bolt. While tightening the bolt the decedent positioned his head so that it was between the hydraulic cylinder a ...
  • Farmer Dies After Becoming Entangled In A PowerTakeOff Shaft 97MN04501
    Farmer Dies After Becoming Entangled In A Power-Take-Off Shaft [97MN04501]
    Parker, David L. ;
    Wahl, George
    1998/04/24 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 48-year-old male farmer (victim) died after he became entangled in a power-take-off shaft. The victim, his father and another worker were operating a small privately owned sawmill that was used to produce rough cut lumber. At the time of the incident the saw was powered by the power-take-off shaft of a 65-70 horsepower farm tractor. The horizonta ...
  • New Jersey Carpenter Dies in Fall From Scaffold in Massachusetts
    New Jersey Carpenter Dies in Fall From Scaffold in Massachusetts
    Massachusetts Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Project (Massachusetts FACE)  ...
    1998/04/16 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On June 25, 1996, a 36 year old male carpenter fell approximately seven feet from a tubular welded scaffold used as a shoring tower at a roof renovation job at a public ice skating rink. At the time of the incident, the victim and several co-workers were standing on a the framework of a scaffold being used to support the wooden arch roof beams of t ...
  • Fumigator falls off roof during tenting and dies in California
    Fumigator falls off roof during tenting and dies in California
    California Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (CA/FACE)  ...
    1998/04/16 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 35-year-old fumigator (decedent) died when he fell 22 feet off the second-story roof of a single-family residence and hit his head on a ground-level, concrete sidewalk. The decedent and his crew were placing tarps over the residence prior to fumigation. After the tarps had been placed on the second story, the decedent went to the roof edge to str ...
  • Bulldozer OperatorLogger Crushed When Struck by Falling Tree in West Virginia
    Bulldozer Operator/Logger Crushed When Struck by Falling Tree in West Virginia
    West Virginia Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (West Virginia FACE)  ...
    1998/04/09 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On December 12, 1997, a 33-year-old self-employed male crawler bulldozer operator/logger (the victim) died of injuries sustained when he was struck by a tree while operating a bulldozer. The bulldozer was not equipped with rollover protective structures (ROPS), falling object protective structures (FOPS), or seat belts. Prior to the incident, the v ...
  • Paramedic Dies in West Virginia Following a Fall From a Bridge
    Paramedic Dies in West Virginia Following a Fall From a Bridge
    West Virginia Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (West Virginia FACE)  ...
    1998/04/08 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On November 15, 1997, a 34-year-old male paramedic (victim) died when he fell approximately 300 feet from a bridge to the rocks below. The victim and a co-worker were part of a two-man ambulance crew that had responded to motor vehicle crashes on an ice covered bridge at approximately 8:24 p.m. The victim was standing in front of a disabled vehicle ...
  • Electrician Dies in 6foot Fall from Ladder
    Electrician Dies in 6-foot Fall from Ladder
    Kentucky Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (KY FACE)  ...
    1998/04/07 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 51-year-old male electrician (the victim) died after falling approximately six feet to the concrete floor of a fertilizer plant. The victim had been doing electrical work while standing on an aluminum extension ladder at a switch box attached to a steel post near a rear exit of the plant. His co-worker, who was approximately 20 feet away, heard h ...
  • Roofer Dies After Falling 23 Feet Through a School Skylight
    Roofer Dies After Falling 23 Feet Through a School Skylight
    New Jersey Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (NJ FACE)  ...
    1998/04/07 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On September 18, 1997, a 22-year-old roofer was fatally injured after falling 23 feet through a skylight opening. The victim was working to replace the old roofing from a high school gymnasium roof. He and a group of other roofers had completed ripping up a section of the roof and removed one of the skylights, which had been subsequently covered wi ...
  • Truck Driver Dies After Crane Boom Strikes Truck Cab at Construction Site Virginia FACE 9802
    Truck Driver Dies After Crane Boom Strikes Truck Cab at Construction Site - Virginia: FACE 98-02
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1998/04/03 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On October 8, 1997, a 56-year-old truck driver (the victim) was crushed when a crane tipped over and the crane's boom landed on the cab of the truck in which he was sitting. The victim, who was hauling excavation material from a 16-story office building construction site, was sitting in the cab of the parked truck waiting to access the excavation s ...
    Public Domain
  • Farmer Dies After Tractor He Was Driving Rolled Over On Him 98MN01801
    Farmer Dies After Tractor He Was Driving Rolled Over On Him [98MN01801]
    Brown, Margee ;
    Parker, David L.
    1998/03/30 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 71-year-old farmer (victim) died of injuries he sustained when the tractor he was driving overturned. On the day of the incident, the victim was driving a farm tractor that was pulling an empty gravity flow wagon on a gravel surfaced public road. The tractor was approximately 10 years old and was equipped with an enclosed rollover-protective cab ...
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