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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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  • Mechanic Fatally Injured During Dismantling of Crane Boom at Scrap Metal Yard Pennsylvania FACE 9703
    Mechanic Fatally Injured During Dismantling of Crane Boom at Scrap Metal Yard - Pennsylvania: FACE 97-03
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1997/06/10 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On March 17, 1997, a 42-year-old master mechanic (the victim) was fatally injured while dismantling a crane boom at a scrap metal yard. The victim and two co-workers were dismantling the crawler-mounted lattice boom crane in preparation for transport. The crane boom had been lowered to 8 1/2 feet off the ground and was supported by the boom pendant ...
    Public Domain
  • Order Picker Dies After Falling from a Lift TruckSuspended Pallet North Carolina FACE 9707
    Order Picker Dies After Falling from a Lift Truck-Suspended Pallet - North Carolina: FACE 97-07
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1997/06/10 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On April 30, 1997, a 70-year-old male order picker (the victim) died after falling 8 feet from a lift truck-suspended pallet and landing on a concrete floor. The victim was alone in the warehouse loading 35-pound boxes of clothes hangers on the suspended pallet. When a co-worker reentered the warehouse approximately 1/2 hour later, he found the vic ...
    Public Domain
  • Hog FarmerLogging Company Owner Dies After Being Struck by a Falling Tree West Virginia FACE 9705
    Hog Farmer/Logging Company Owner Dies After Being Struck by a Falling Tree - West Virginia: FACE 97-05
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1997/06/06 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 35-year-old male hog farmer/logging company owner (the victim) had just completed felling a yellow poplar tree at a rural logging site when he was struck and killed by the falling tree. The victim and a co-worker were performing separate logging tasks when the incident occurred. The co-worker was operating a skidder, while the victim was felling ...
    Public Domain
  • Operating engineer is crushed by a backhoe attachment when it disconnects from its tractor in California
    Operating engineer is crushed by a backhoe attachment when it disconnects from its tractor in California
    California Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (CA/FACE)  ...
    1997/06/02 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 25-year-old operating engineer (decedent) died when he was crushed between the grab bar of a backhoe attachment and the Roll Over Protective Structure (ROPS) of a skid steer loader (small tractor). When the backhoe attachment disconnected during a test of the equipment, the decedent was thrown forward onto the left side operating stick. Pushing t ...
  • Bulldozer operator dies following equipment submersion Alaska
    Bulldozer operator dies following equipment submersion -- Alaska
    Beller, Michael ;
    Choromanski, Deborah
    1997/05/28 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    At 3:51 PM on April 13, 1997, a 46-year-old male heavy equipment operator (the victim) was reported missing and presumed drowned when the bulldozer he was operating rolled into an ice-covered tailing pond and submerged in 20 feet of water. On April 14, 1997, the Alaska State Troopers (AST) notified the Alaska Division of Public Health, Section of E ...
  • Bulldozer Operator Killed in Rollover
    Bulldozer Operator Killed in Rollover
    Kentucky Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (KY FACE)  ...
    1997/05/22 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 56-year-old bulldozer operator was killed while clearing land on a steep hillside. He was self-employed and used the John Deere 450C bulldozer that he owned for logging on his own property, as well as doing work for others when needed. He owned mountain property near his home and he used the bulldozer to clear a series of paths in the hills for l ...
  • Farmer Killed when Tractor Overturns on Embankment
    Farmer Killed when Tractor Overturns on Embankment
    Kentucky Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (KY FACE)  ...
    1997/05/09 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 44-year-old cattle farmer was killed when the tricycle tractor he was operating overturned. As was his usual practice, the victim had backed the tractor out of the shed near his home, turned to the right and was driving forward, down the embankment to the road which led to the highway. His cattle barn and pasture were located a short distance fro ...
  • Crane Tips Over on Barge
    Crane Tips Over on Barge
    Hetzler, William E. ;
    Hirsh, Gary L.
    1997/05/06 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 39-year-old crane operator was killed when the crawler crane he was operating on a barge tipped over. The crane impacted a piece of equipment on the barge and he was crushed in the crane's cab. At the time of the incident the victim was lifting a diesel piledriver weighing approximately 15,500 pounds and he apparently overboomed for that weight a ...
  • Sheet metal roofer slips and falls through joint in ceiling Iowa
    Sheet metal roofer slips and falls through joint in ceiling --Iowa.
    Johnson, Wayne ;
    Rautiainen, Risto
    1997/05/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 20-year-old sheet metal worker, part of a crew constructing a new metal building, died when he fell through a joint in the ceiling panels of the roof, landing on the concrete floor 21 feet below. The man was working on the roof laying down insulation prior to attaching the top layer of metal. While walking on a purlin, he apparently slipped and h ...
  • Farmer Killed When Tractor Turns Over
    Farmer Killed When Tractor Turns Over
    Kentucky Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (KY FACE)  ...
    1997/05/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 56-year-old farmer was killed when the tricycle tractor he was operating on a hillside overturned. He had been going up and down the hill to bring loads of dirt in the tractor's front-end loader in order to bury a calf. The hillside was relatively steep, and the ground was wet from recent rains. As he attempted to turn with the loader filled and ...
  • Sawmill Worker Killed by Circular Saw
    Sawmill Worker Killed by Circular Saw
    Kentucky Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (KY FACE)  ...
    1997/05/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 32-year-old laborer (the victim) at a sawmill died as a result of injuries received when he lost his balance and fell onto the log carriage directly in front of the 56-inch circular saw. He had been using a cane hook to turn the logs for repeated passes through the saw. After hooking a log, he somehow lost his balance and fell backward onto the c ...
  • Dairy Farmer Killed in Cattle Feeding Machine Incident
    Dairy Farmer Killed in Cattle Feeding Machine Incident
    New Jersey Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (NJ FACE)  ...
    1997/04/30 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On September 30, 1996, a 61-year-old dairy farmer was killed when his head was caught in cattle feeding machine. The incident occurred at the family farm in the cattle feeding pen. The victim was operating a center drive feeding machine, which directed corn from a nearby silo and transferred it to a conveyor belt that evenly distributed the feed in ...
  • Construction Worker Dies After Falling 9 Feet From the Ground Into The Basement Of A Town house That Was Being Constructed
    Construction Worker Dies After Falling 9 Feet From the Ground Into The Basement Of A Town house That Was Being Constructed
    Brown, Margee ;
    Parker, David L.
    1997/04/25 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 23-year-old worker (victim) died of injuries he sustained after falling 9 feet into a basement of a town house that was being constructed. On the day of the incident workers were beginning to frame the first floor of the town house. The victim was working at ground level near the basement that had been dug two months prior to the incident. A cowo ...
  • Forklift Operator Dies After Being Crushed Between A Loading Dock And A Railroad Box Car
    Forklift Operator Dies After Being Crushed Between A Loading Dock And A Railroad Box Car
    Brown, Margee ;
    Parker, David L.
    1997/04/25 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 53-year-old forklift operator driver died of injuries he sustained after he was crushed between a loading dock and a railroad box car. When it was not being used to access rail cars, the dock was stored in a vertical position. The victim was standing underneath the loading dock when the dock released into the lowered position, pinning him between ...
  • Logger Killed During Tree Felling
    Logger Killed During Tree Felling
    Kentucky Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (KY FACE)  ...
    1997/04/16 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 61-year-old male logger was killed when he was hit by the tree he was felling. On the day of the incident, he was working on a steep mountainside with his son and another logger. At approximately 10 am, the victim was felling a tree approximately 14 inches in diameter. As viewed from the bottom of the hill, a small tree about 6 inches in diameter ...
  • An elevator construction foreman was caught under an elevator car and died of injuries to the head and neck and compression asphyxia
    An elevator construction foreman was caught under an elevator car and died of injuries to the head and neck and compression asphyxia
    Goddard, Keith L. ;
    Weber, Philip P.
    1997/04/03 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On September 24, 1996, 53-year-old male elevator construction foreman (the victim) was killed and his helper, an elevator constructor (employed by another subcontractor) was injured, when the hydraulic elevator car they were working under fell on them. The two were adjusting the hydraulic cylinder when the car fell, trapping them in the elevator pi ...
  • Crew member struckby grease fitting during maintenance of vessel steering quadrant Alaska
    Crew member struck-by grease fitting during maintenance of vessel steering quadrant -- Alaska
    Beller, Michael ;
    Choromanski, Deborah
    1997/04/03 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On November 8, 1996, a 48-year-old male crew member (the victim) died from injuries after he was struck by a grease fitting propelled through the air while performing maintenance on a vessel steering quadrant. The victim was part of a six-person crew of a fishing vessel performing various duties including routine maintenance and repair of the vesse ...
  • Laborers Legs Amputated Inside Paper Baler at Resource Recovery Center FACE 9702
    Laborer's Legs Amputated Inside Paper Baler at Resource Recovery Center: FACE 97-02
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1997/04/03 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On September 24, 1996, a 17-year-old mail laborer (the victim) suffered amputation of both legs after he fell inside an operating horizontal hydraulic baler at a resource recovery center. The victim and three co-workers had been loading cardboard into the baler via an inclined conveyor belt when the cardboard jammed in the baler's feed chute. The v ...
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  • Tree Trimmer Killed When a Branch to Which He Was Tied Broke And His Lifeline Failed
    Tree Trimmer Killed When a Branch to Which He Was Tied Broke And His Lifeline Failed
    New Jersey Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (NJ FACE)  ...
    1997/03/27 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On September 9, 1996, a 28-year-old tree trimmer died when he fell 60 feet from a tree he was cutting to a gravel driveway below. He was attached by a lanyard to the branch he was trimming and, when the branch broke behind him, he fell with it. His safety line was attached to the tree trunk and, as he and the 25-foot-long branch section fell, his s ...
  • Grain Elevator Employee Dies After Falling From the Roof of a Grain Bin
    Grain Elevator Employee Dies After Falling From the Roof of a Grain Bin
    Parker, David L. ;
    Wahl, George
    1997/03/26 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 48-year-old grain elevator employee (victim) died of injuries he sustained when he fell from the roof of a steel grain bin. On the day of the incident, the victim and two coworkers worked at various tasks associated with drying and storing recently harvested corn. Four storage structures were connected by horizontal conveyors that allowed grain t ...
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