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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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  • Machinist Dies After Being Struck By Object Thrown From Turning Lathe
    Machinist Dies After Being Struck By Object Thrown From Turning Lathe
    Minnesota Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Program (MN FACE)  ...
    1998/01/25 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 42-year-old male lathe operator (the victim) died after being struck by a metal object that was thrown from a lathe. The victim was setting up the lathe for a production run of parts. He bolted an unfinished part to a holding device known as a fixture and mounted the fixture in the hydraulic jaws of the lathe's chuck. Although the required hydrau ...
  • Construction Worker Dies in 7foot Fall
    Construction Worker Dies in 7-foot Fall
    Kentucky Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (KY FACE)  ...
    1998/01/16 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 41-year-old male construction worker (the victim) died in a fall while working in a warehouse. He had been hired to build wooden racks to hold building products in a warehouse. The racks were made of wood and stood 10½ feet high and 12 feet long (Figure1). On his fifth day of work, the victim was working alone in the warehouse. At about 8:40 am, ...
  • Backhoe Bucket Crushes Worker in Trench
    Backhoe Bucket Crushes Worker in Trench
    Nebraska Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (Nebraska FACE)  ...
    1998/01/07 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 39-year-old laborer was killed when he was crushed by the bucket of a backhoe being operated by his supervisor. The victim and his supervisor (the backhoe operator) were in the process of digging a sewer line trench when the incident occurred. The victim was standing in one end of a 7 foot deep trench which was approximately 20 feet long and 30 i ...
  • Mobile tower crane falls 180 feet to the ground killing the crane operator
    Mobile tower crane falls 180 feet to the ground killing the crane operator.
    Johnson, Wayne ;
    Rautiainen, Risto
    1998/01/02 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    During the summer of 1997 a 36-year-old employee for a crane service company was killed while working on top of a portable tower crane. The crane was set up at a large wind farm, to assemble a large wind turbine. The crane was positioned adjacent to the metal column for the windmill and the outriggers were extended. The two-man crew from the crane ...
  • Farmer Youth Dies After Being Run Over By A Grass Seeder
    Farmer Youth Dies After Being Run Over By A Grass Seeder
    Parker, David L. ;
    Wahl, George
    1997/12/30 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 13-year-old farm youth (victim) died of injuries sustained when he was run over by a grass seeder. The victim and an adult coworker used a seeder to seed grass around the perimeter of a recently built earthen waste treatment lagoon. The adult coworker drove a tractor pulling the seeder around the rim of the lagoon. While he pulled the seeder, the ...
  • Farmer Killed in Tractor Rollover 97KY093
    Farmer Killed in Tractor Rollover [97KY093]
    Kentucky Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (KY FACE)  ...
    1997/12/22 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 44-year-old male farmer (the victim) was killed when his tractor rolled over into a ditch. He had been driving the tractor, pulling a rotary mower, on a public road that borders his farm. As he came down a hill, the rotary mower began to weave and eventually the tractor flipped over into a ditch. Because of the deteriorated condition of the tract ...
  • Two utility workers were working in a trench next to a road when a valve blew off a 10 water main and rapidly filled the excavation before they could be rescued
    Two utility workers, were working in a trench next to a road, when a valve blew off a 10" water main and rapidly filled the excavation before they could be rescued
    Goddard, Keith L. ;
    Weber, Philip P.
    1997/12/22 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On Tuesday, July 22, 1997, at approximately 10:30 a.m., a valve that they had replaced, blew off a 10" diameter water main. Water, under pressure of about 100 p.s.i., quickly filled a trench approximately 4'-6" deep by 6'-0" long and 6'-0" wide. The valve struck a 43-year-old, male, Utility Worker #1 (victim 1), injuring him severely and caused him ...
  • Farmer Dies After Tractor He Was Driving Rolled Over On Him 97MN043
    Farmer Dies After Tractor He Was Driving Rolled Over On Him [97MN043]
    Brown, Margee ;
    Parker, David L.
    1997/12/22 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    An 86-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 on a blacktop surfaced public road. The tractor was not equipped with a rollover protective structure or a seat belt. While the victim drove north on the road, the right wheels of ...
  • Bulldozer OperatorLogger Crushed by Crawler Bulldozer After Pulling Logging Truck From Mud on Logging Road in West Virginia
    Bulldozer Operator/Logger Crushed by Crawler Bulldozer After Pulling Logging Truck From Mud on Logging Road in West Virginia
    West Virginia Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (West Virginia FACE)  ...
    1997/12/15 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On February 26, 1997, a 56-year-old self-employed male crawler bulldozer operator/logger (the victim) died of injuries sustained when he was run over by right track of a bulldozer. Just before the incident, the victim had used the bulldozer to pull a fully loaded log truck out of the mud. Once the log truck was free and while the bulldozer was runn ...
  • Laborer dies from crush injuries when he was struckby a suspended overhaul ball
    Laborer dies from crush injuries when he was struck-by a suspended overhaul ball
    Beller, Michael ;
    Choromanski, Deborah
    1997/12/15 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 29-year-old male laborer was killed when a suspended 350-pound overhaul ball was severed from a cable on a mobile crane and struck his head. The victim was a sheet metal worker/welder at a remote construction site. During off-duty hours, he had acquired additional employment with a second construction company as a temporary laborer to assist in t ...
  • Skidder Operator Thrown From Vehicle During Rollover
    Skidder Operator Thrown From Vehicle During Rollover
    Kentucky Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (KY FACE)  ...
    1997/12/11 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 50-year-old full-time logger (the victim) was killed when the skidder he was operating rolled down a hillside. He and two other loggers were working as contracted help at the timber harvest operation site. They leased a Timberjack skidder model 450 to haul the logs. At the time of the incident, the victim was operating the skidder at the top of t ...
  • Dislodged Tree Strikes Logger
    Dislodged Tree Strikes Logger
    Kentucky Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (KY FACE)  ...
    1997/12/10 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 64-year-old self-employed logger (the victim) was killed when a lodged tree fell and struck him. He was working with his 19-year-old son and a logger who owned a skidder. The victim had cut a beech tree that was approximately 24 inches in diameter at the base. Before the tree was able to fall, it became lodged against another tree standing near i ...
  • 30 Foot Fall From Steel Girder
    30 Foot Fall From Steel Girder
    Nebraska Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (Nebraska FACE)  ...
    1997/12/08 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 40-year-old steel erection superintendent was killed when he fell 30 feet from an I-beam while dragging steel decking across steel girders. The victim and a coworker were in the process of constructing a roof on a building and were dragging steel decking into place on steel girders. The sheets were 3' by 30' sections of galvanized steel. The vict ...
  • SelfEmployed Massachusetts Siding Installer Dies After 11 Foot Fall from Scaffold
    Self-Employed Massachusetts Siding Installer Dies After 11 Foot Fall from Scaffold
    Massachusetts Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Project (Massachusetts FACE)  ...
    1997/12/02 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On June 20, 1996 a 65 year old male self-employed roofer and siding installer was fatally injured when he fell almost 11 feet from a pump jack scaffold. The victim had been installing wood clapboard siding on a newly constructed single family home. It is possible that the victim suffered a heart attack before falling to the ground. A co-worker, his ...
  • SelfEmployed Painter in Massachusetts Dies In Fall Of Twelve Feet From Widows Walk At A Singlefamily Home
    Self-Employed Painter in Massachusetts Dies In Fall Of Twelve Feet From "Widow's Walk" At A Single-family Home
    Massachusetts Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Project (Massachusetts FACE)  ...
    1997/12/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On May 22, 1996, a 68 year old self-employed male painter died of injuries sustained in a fall of approximately twelve feet at a Massachusetts residential renovation site. The victim was working on a small porch above the front doorway, known as a "widow's walk", when the incident occurred. Apparently, the victim stepped off of a ladder on the land ...
  • A laborer dies following a fortysixfoot fall from a scaffold
    A laborer dies following a forty-six-foot fall from a scaffold
    Goddard, Keith L. ;
    Weber, Philip P.
    1997/12/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On June 27, 1997, at approximately 1:00 p.m., a 39-year-old male laborer (the victim) was helping a siding mechanic/painter (the witness) scrape and point the front of a four-story townhouse in a large metropolitan area. They were working from a WACO scaffold seven frames high (approximately 46-feet high) and three frames wide. The witness and the ...
  • Laborer is crushed by a clam shell bucket when it disconnects from its crane in California
    Laborer is crushed by a clam shell bucket when it disconnects from its crane in California
    Guerriero, Judie ;
    Harrison, Robert
    1997/11/28 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 22-year-old laborer (decedent) died when he was crushed by a clam-shell bucket which disconnected from the hook of the truck-mounted crane lowering it. The decedent was in a deep excavation when the bucket fell on him. The bucket snagged the side of the trench shield which caused it to disconnect from the crane's load hook. The safety latch on th ...
  • Forklift operator is crushed by a roll of paper when it falls out of a railroad boxcar in California
    Forklift operator is crushed by a roll of paper when it falls out of a railroad boxcar in California
    Guerriero, Judie ;
    Harrison, Robert
    1997/11/28 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 24-year-old forklift operator (decedent) died when he was crushed by a 2,214-pound roll of paper that tumbled out of a boxcar door. The decedent had opened the boxcar door to access the load of rolls of paper for unloading. The bands that had held several rolls together pulled apart during shipping and the rolls had dislodged. When the decedent o ...
  • Machinist repairman dies when a large mail bucket swings free during repair and crushes him in California
    Machinist repairman dies when a large mail bucket swings free during repair and crushes him in California
    California Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (CA/FACE)  ...
    1997/11/27 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 42-year-old machinist repairman (decedent) died when he was crushed between a mail bucket and a metal pipe. The decedent and a co-worker had been sent by their employer to a bulk mail facility to repair a number of mail loader/containers. Representatives of the mail facility led the workers to the machines and then left them to perform their work ...
  • Logger Crushed During Repair Work on Skidder
    Logger Crushed During Repair Work on Skidder
    Kentucky Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (KY FACE)  ...
    1997/11/20 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 56-year-old full-time logger (the victim) was killed while working with his son at a logging site. On the morning of the incident, the victim and his son made repairs to the brakes on a skidder which belonged to the owner of the small logging company. As the two loggers were working at the site that afternoon, the brakes malfunctioned again. To m ...
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