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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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  • Electric Line Technician Dies After Falling from Forklift North Carolina FACE 9719
    Electric Line Technician Dies After Falling from Forklift - North Carolina: FACE 97-19
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1997/09/11 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 36-year-old male electric-line technician (the victim) died after falling from and being run over by a forklift. The victim and a co-worker were moving transformers from a supply yard to a warehouse to be prepared for installation on the following day. The men had taken one transformer, sitting on a wooden pallet, to the warehouse and set the pal ...
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  • Laborer Dies After Falling into Baler at Paper Products Plant South Carolina
    Laborer Dies After Falling into Baler at Paper Products Plant - South Carolina
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1997/09/11 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On May 9, 1997, a 34-year-old laborer (the victim) died after falling in an operating paper baler at a paper products plant. The victim and a co -worker were loading scrap paper into an automatically operated paper baler via a belt conveyor. The victim ascended to a platform located between the conveyor discharge and the feed chute of the paper bal ...
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  • Tractor Overturn
    Tractor Overturn
    Nebraska Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (Nebraska FACE)  ...
    1997/09/05 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 23-year-old farmer was killed when the tractor he was operating overturned on him. The victim had been trimming trees on an access road to a farm. He had a graffle fork and bucket on the tractor and it had trimmings from the trees in it. He was backing the tractor down a dirt/gravel road and the left rear wheel went off the road down an embankmen ...
  • Landscaper Dies When Struck By Front End Loader In Massachusetts
    Landscaper Dies When Struck By Front End Loader In Massachusetts
    Massachusetts Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Project (Massachusetts FACE)  ...
    1997/08/29 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On April 4, 1996, a 40 year old male machinist turned landscaper died of injuries sustained when he fell from the bucket of a front end loader and was run over by the vehicle. The victim and a co-worker were riding in the bucket of the truck which was driving along a paved two-lane road to a parking area when the incident occurred. The victim was t ...
  • Farmer Dies From Burn Injuries After Tractor He was Driving Caught Fire
    Farmer Dies From Burn Injuries After Tractor He was Driving Caught Fire
    Parker, David L. ;
    Wahl, George
    1997/08/28 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    An 87-year-old farmer (victim) died of burns he received when the tractor he was driving caught fire. On the day of the incident, the victim drove a farm tractor on a public roadway pulling an empty grain wagon. The tractor was equipped with a vinyl heat shroud designed to partially shelter the tractor operator from outdoor environmental conditions ...
  • Logger killed while felling tree Alaska
    Logger killed while felling tree -- Alaska
    Beller, Michael ;
    Choromanski, Deborah
    1997/08/28 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A logger was killed when the trunk of the tree he was felling (cutting) struck his head. The victim was part of a two-man crew cutting trees separately on a steep hillside. After clearing an intended fall area and an escape route of brush and saplings, the victim made a series of standard cuts to fell the tree. The tree twisted on its stump, causin ...
  • Two fire fighters die and one seriously injured when an upstairs floor collapses on them during a residential fire in California
    Two fire fighters die and one seriously injured when an upstairs floor collapses on them during a residential fire in California
    California Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (CA/FACE)  ...
    1997/08/27 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 29-year-old fire fighter (decedent 1), and a 21-year-old fire fighter (decedent 2) died, and a 42-year-old fire captain was injured when a second story floor fell on them while fighting a residential fire. The home's resident was also fatally injured. The municipal fire department received a call at 4:11:35 a.m. from a neighbor of the residence o ...
  • Maintenance Electrician Dies from Crush Injuries When Caught Between Nip Barrier and Upper Frame of Paper Rewinder Virginia FACE 9717
    Maintenance Electrician Dies from Crush Injuries When Caught Between Nip Barrier and Upper Frame of Paper Rewinder - Virginia: FACE 97-17
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1997/08/26 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On April 18, 1997, a 37-year-old male maintenance electrician (the victim) died when his lower torso was crushed between the nip barrier (a wire-mesh gate) and the upper frame of a paper rewinder machine at a paper -manufacturing facility. Without first de-energizing, locking out, and tagging the machine, the victim began to replace the arm for the ...
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  • Pug mill operator killed after entanglement
    Pug mill operator killed after entanglement
    Kentucky Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (KY FACE)  ...
    1997/08/12 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On November 19, 1996, a 25-year-old female pug mill operator at a brick manufacturing plant was killed after her clothing became caught in a rotating shaft. She was strangled as the rotating shaft tightened her clothing around her neck, restricting her airway. In order to prevent similar incidents from occurring, FACE investigators recommend: 1. ma ...
  • Rear Tractor Rollover Kills Farmer
    Rear Tractor Rollover Kills Farmer
    Kentucky Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (KY FACE)  ...
    1997/07/31 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 67-year-old male farmer (the victim) died when the tractor he was operating flipped over backward, pinning him between it and another tractor. He and his 13-year-old grandson had been working with a tractor and rotary mower, but got stuck in the mud of a creek bedapproximately one-third of the rear tractor tires were buried in mud. He had gotten ...
  • Construction Laborer Dies After Being Struck by a Front End Loader at a Construction Site Pennsylvania FACE 9711
    Construction Laborer Dies After Being Struck by a Front End Loader at a Construction Site - Pennsylvania: FACE 97-11
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1997/07/22 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On June 10, 1997 at approximately 11:00 a.m., a 20-year old male construction worker (the victim) was struck by a Caterpillar Model 966 D front end loader at a construction site and died 13 hours later. The victim was collecting manifests and directing the traffic flow for incoming trucks, which were unloading stone and sand at a concrete batch pla ...
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  • A low bed trailer operator was crushed during a surface compactor tipover Alaska
    A low bed trailer operator was crushed during a surface compactor tipover -- Alaska
    Beller, Michael ;
    Choromanski, Deborah
    1997/07/15 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On June 9, 1997, a low bed trailer operator (the victim) was crushed when a surface compactor he was operating tipped over while being unloaded from a low bed trailer. As the victim backed the compactor down one of the trailer ramps, the machine became unbalanced and began to slide and tip sideways off the trailer bed and ramp. The victim jumped fr ...
  • Tree Trimming Crew Leader Caught in Wood Chipper Virginia FACE 9706
    Tree Trimming Crew Leader Caught in Wood Chipper - Virginia: FACE 97-06
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1997/07/02 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On April 23, 1997, a 24-year-old tree-trimming crew leader (the victim) died after he was caught and pulled through a woodchipper. The victim and two co-workers, a tree climber, and a ground man, were in the process of trimming trees at a residence. While the tree climber and the ground man were at the rear of the house, the victim was located near ...
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  • Logger Killed When Struck by Tree Limb During Hauling
    Logger Killed When Struck by Tree Limb During Hauling
    Kentucky Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (KY FACE)  ...
    1997/07/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 52-year-old male was killed on a logging site when a tree limb struck him in the back of the head. He had no previous logging experience and had been working with his friend who was a full-time logger for six days when the fatal incident occurred. The two men were working alone on the logging site and it was about 5:30 pm when they chained a load ...
  • TractorBaler Operator Killed in Entanglement
    Tractor/Baler Operator Killed in Entanglement
    Kentucky Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (KY FACE)  ...
    1997/06/26 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    An 80-year-old full-time farmer died after being caught under a baler. The victim worked closely with his son on the 300-acre farm. He was working alone, driving a tractor with a baler attached, in an 8-acre field during a midafternoon in May. Having completed a portion of the field in the morning, the victim returned to the field after lunch to co ...
  • Farmer Killed When Tractor Slides Over Embankment While Mowing
    Farmer Killed When Tractor Slides Over Embankment While Mowing
    Kentucky Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (KY FACE)  ...
    1997/06/26 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 56-year-old part-time farmer was killed when the tractor he was driving overturned while mowing. Using a rotary mower attached to the John Deere 1520 tractor, the farmer mowed an area near the roadway that had a gradual downward slope. The tractor was not equipped with a Rollover Protective Structure (ROPS) or seatbelt. After mowing two rows, he ...
  • Heavy equipment operator dies when excavator slips down a hill and becomes buried in mud in California
    Heavy equipment operator dies when excavator slips down a hill and becomes buried in mud in California
    California Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (CA/FACE)  ...
    1997/06/24 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 39-year-old heavy equipment operator (decedent) died when his excavator slid over a hill and was buried in mud. The decedent was scooping mud from a desilting pond with the excavator bucket and placing the mud in a scraper/loader. He was working at the edge of a 20-foot embankment with his tracks parallel to the edge of the hill. The decedent had ...
  • Concrete pump truck operator electrocuted when boom contacts overhead power line Alaska
    Concrete pump truck operator electrocuted when boom contacts overhead power line -- Alaska
    Beller, Michael ;
    Choromanski, Deborah
    1997/06/22 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On May 5, 1997, a 21-year-old, male concrete pump truck operator (the victim) was electrocuted when the boom of the truck he was operating contacted a 14.4 kilovolt (kV) overhead power line. The victim had completed the process of cleaning the pump line with the two lower sections of the boom elevated, in an oblique position relative to the truck. ...
  • Lineman Struck by Falling Power Pole
    Lineman Struck by Falling Power Pole
    Nebraska Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (Nebraska FACE)  ...
    1997/06/19 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 52-year-old lineman was killed when a power pole fell on him. A crew was in the process of retiring (taking out of service and removing) a power line. They had already cut down several poles prior to the incident pole. The poles were in rough terrain and a truck could not be driven to them to help facilitate removal. At the time of the incident t ...
  • Carpenters Helper Dies After 120Foot Fall from an Unprotected Floor Edge of an Atrium South Carolina FACE 9708
    Carpenter's Helper Dies After 120-Foot Fall from an Unprotected Floor Edge of an Atrium - South Carolina: FACE 97-08
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1997/06/18 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 22-year-old male carpenter's helper (the victim) died of injuries he received after crawling from an unprotected floor edge onto an unsecured piece of plywood and falling 120 feet to the ground. At the time of the incident, concrete forming work had been completed on 12 floors of a condominium under construction. A co-worker from the floor above ...
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