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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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  • Plumber is electrocuted when he contacts the frayed wires of his work light in California
    Plumber is electrocuted when he contacts the frayed wires of his work light in California
    California Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (CA/FACE)  ...
    1997/01/06 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 40-year-old male plumber (victim) died after laying on his work light while installing plumbing under a house being remodeled. The victim was crawling under the house carrying the work light with him. The electrical wire inside the work light's conduit became bare and energized the light's housing. The victim owned his own company, and he was the ...
  • New Jersey PainterDeLeader Dies in Fall from Suspended Scaffold in Water Tank in Massachusetts
    New Jersey Painter/De-Leader Dies in Fall from Suspended Scaffold in Water Tank in Massachusetts
    Massachusetts Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Project (Massachusetts FACE)  ...
    1997/01/02 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On August 3, 1995, a 45 year old male died, and a co-worker was injured, when the powered suspended platform on which they were working collapsed. The two men were hanging spray paint lines inside a 5.3 million gallon municipal water tank when the incident occurred. As the platform was descending the wall of the tank, one of two wire ropes suspendi ...
  • Iron Worker Dies After Falling 18 Feet While Constructing a Roof
    Iron Worker Dies After Falling 18 Feet While Constructing a Roof
    New Jersey Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (NJ FACE)  ...
    1996/12/30 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On August 6, 1996, a 34-year-old iron worker was killed after he fell from the roof of a building under construction. The incident occurred at the construction site of a pre-engineered (prefabricated) steel storage building that was being assembled at a large nursing home facility. The victim and a co-worker were attaching the steel roof panels to ...
  • Construction Worker Dies After Falling 17 Feet From An Elevated Platform In A Steel Warehouse
    Construction Worker Dies After Falling 17 Feet From An Elevated Platform In A Steel Warehouse
    Brown, Margee ;
    Parker, David L.
    1996/12/27 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 39-year-old worker (victim) died of injuries he sustained after falling 17 feet from an elevated platform in a steel manufacturing warehouse. On the day of the incident workers were tightening a bolt on steel arm that was used for storage. The victim was standing inside a steel pan that was elevated to 17 feet by means of a side loading forklift. ...
  • Tractor avoids oncoming car but rolls in a ditch killing the operator Iowa
    Tractor avoids oncoming car but rolls in a ditch killing the operator -- Iowa.
    Johnson, Wayne ;
    Rautiainen, Risto
    1996/12/21 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 67-year-old farmhand driving an older tractor was distracted by approaching traffic while turning into a farm lane and over-steered slightly causing the tractor to enter a ditch and roll over. The victim was on the right shoulder of the highway, preparing to turn left into the farm lane. After he began his turn a car immediately appeared over a h ...
  • A 24YearOld Farm Laborer Dies When the Aluminum Irrigation Pipe He is Handling Contacts a High Voltage Line
    A 24-Year-Old Farm Laborer Dies When the Aluminum Irrigation Pipe He is Handling Contacts a High Voltage Line
    Hoffman, Richard E. ;
    McCammon, Jane B.
    1996/12/15 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On June 15, 1996 at approximately 8:30 in the morning, two farm hands were installing a siderow sprinkler system. The system consists of 30-foot long sections of gated aluminum pipe that are connected to the pumping system. While relocating a section of pipe, the two workers lifted it to a vertical position to clear the pipe of accumulated sediment ...
  • Temporary Employee Falls Through Coliseum Roof Virginia FACE 9621
    Temporary Employee Falls Through Coliseum Roof - Virginia: FACE 96-21
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1996/12/10 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    This report concerns the death of a 27-year-old laborer who fell through an unguarded roof opening while repairing the rubber roof membrane of a college sports coliseum. The man and the roofing foreman had spent the morning patching slices in the membrane that had been made to install additional steel purlins to the existing roof structure. After l ...
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  • Company President Killed When Forklift Overturns North Carolina FACE 9701
    Company President Killed When Forklift Overturns - North Carolina: FACE 97-01
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1996/12/09 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    This report concerns the death of a 43-year-old male who was president/co-owner of a company that designed, fabricated, and installed advertising signs. The subject died after being pinned to a concrete driveway by the rollover/falling object protection structure (ROPS/FOPS) on a forklift he was operating when it overturned. The company had receive ...
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  • Plumber dies of injuries received from a twentytwofoot fall off an extension ladder at a construction site
    Plumber dies of injuries received from a twenty-two-foot fall, off an extension ladder, at a construction site
    Ticer, Letha ;
    Weber, Philip P.
    1996/12/08 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 40-year-old male plumber (the victim) died after falling approximately twenty-two feet from a forty-foot extension ladder and striking the concrete floor of a wet well. The victim and a co-worker (an apprentice plumber) were mounting four inch diameter PVC pipe to the wall of a wet well, at a sewage treatment facility under construction. Their fo ...
  • Laborer killed when forklift falls off loading dock
    Laborer killed when forklift falls off loading dock
    Barrett, Charles L. ;
    Warren, Richard L.
    1996/12/06 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On November 25, 1996, a 41-year-old male laborer (the victim) died from injuries sustained when the forklift he was operating fell off the loading dock pinning him under the roll over protection system (ROPS). The forklift did not have seat restraints. The incident was unwitnessed but evidence suggests the victim was unloading Gaylord recycling box ...
  • Construction Worker Dies After Being Buried In A Trench That Caved In 96MN07301
    Construction Worker Dies After Being Buried In A Trench That Caved In [96MN07301]
    Brown, Margee ;
    Parker, David L.
    1996/12/06 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 20-year-old construction worker died of injuries he sustained from a trench cave-in. The worker was at the bottom of the trench at the time it collapsed. Workers were using the trench to install a new city water line. During this type of work, a backhoe is used to dig a trench prior to laying the new water line. Completion of the project required ...
  • Retired Farmer Thrown From and Run Over by Tractor
    Retired Farmer Thrown From and Run Over by Tractor
    Kentucky Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (KY FACE)  ...
    1996/12/05 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 67-year-old retired farmer (the victim) was killed while mowing a field of the family farm. He had made several passes around the field using a rotary mower recently equipped with new blades by his son. At one end of the field was an approximate 20-foot hill of 15-degree slope. The top of this hill was a plateau across which the tractor could be ...
  • Logger Killed When Struck by Tree
    Logger Killed When Struck by Tree
    Kentucky Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (KY FACE)  ...
    1996/12/03 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 59-year-old male was killed when he was stuck by a tree while logging on a mountainside. The victim was working with two other men doing contract work for a local lumber company. All three men were full-time loggers and had many years of experience. On the morning of the incident, the men were working on a steep mountainside. One logger was worki ...
  • Municipal Maintenance Worker Killed When Struck With the Steel Coupling of an OutofControl High Pressure Water Hose
    Municipal Maintenance Worker Killed When Struck With the Steel Coupling of an Out-of-Control High Pressure Water Hose
    New Jersey Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (NJ FACE)  ...
    1996/12/03 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On June 27, 1996, a 62 year-old senior grounds keeper/maintenance worker was killed when a high pressure water hose went out of control. A crew of workers was using a plunger pump sewer cleaner to attempt to blast water into a hole to deepen it for installation of a new light pole. The victim died when he was struck on the head by the steel couplin ...
  • Gravel pit worker dies while cleaning off a stalled conveyor belt Iowa
    Gravel pit worker dies while cleaning off a stalled conveyor belt-- Iowa.
    Johnson, Wayne ;
    Rautiainen, Risto
    1996/12/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 41-year-old worker for a gravel company was killed while he was cleaning gravel off a transfer conveyor belt. The 30 inch wide rubber belt was moving raw gravel along a slight incline approximately 5-10 feet off the ground for a distance of 225 feet. For an unknown reason, this belt became overloaded causing the electrical breaker to trip. The fo ...
  • Landscaper Died of Injuries Incurred When He was Catapulted from the Operators Seat of a Truckmounted Boom
    [Landscaper Died of Injuries Incurred When He was Catapulted from the Operator's Seat of a Truck-mounted Boom]
    Hoffman, Richard E. ;
    McCammon, Jane B.
    1996/12/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    This landscaper normally worked in the logging industry. The equipment involved with this injury was a Barco model 8000 boom truck designed to lift logs to and from the truck bed, and was owned by the deceased. To supplement his income, he occasionally used the equipment to do landscaping work. On the day of the injury, he was using the truck and b ...
  • Cement Finisher Dies After Being Crushed Against Doorway by Cement Truck Chute North Carolina FACE 9625
    Cement Finisher Dies After Being Crushed Against Doorway by Cement Truck Chute - North Carolina: FACE 96-25
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1996/12/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 32-year-old male cement finisher (the victim) died after being crushed against a temporary doorway by the chute of a cement truck. The victim was a member of a 4-man crew patching holes in a 5-acre warehouse floor. A temporary doorway had been cut in the warehouse wall for access. The cement truck backed up to the doorway in a manner that allowed ...
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  • Recycling Center Laborer Crushed in Baling Machine Tennessee FACE 9623
    Recycling Center Laborer Crushed in Baling Machine - Tennessee: FACE 96-23
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1996/12/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On July 31, 1996, a 20-year-old laborer (the victim) at a recycling center died as a result of injuries he received after he was caught between the platen and the top of the baling chamber door of a vertical-downstroke baling machine. There were no eyewitnesses to the incident. Upon arrival at the work site, a co-worker noticed the victim leaning o ...
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  • Farmer Dies After Becoming Entangled in Unguarded Driveline on a Corn Auger
    Farmer Dies After Becoming Entangled in Unguarded Driveline on a Corn Auger
    Wisconsin Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (Wisconsin FACE)  ...
    1996/11/29 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    An 82-year-old male farmer (the victim) died after becoming entangled in the driveline of a portable grain auger. The auger was connected to a tractor equipped with a power take-off (PTO) stub shaft, which powered the driveline of the auger. The PTO stub shaft on the tractor and the auger PTO driveline were shielded, but the secondary drive shaft o ...
  • Farmer Dies After Becoming Entangled in Unguarded PTO Unit on Corn Sheller
    Farmer Dies After Becoming Entangled in Unguarded PTO Unit on Corn Sheller
    Wisconsin Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (Wisconsin FACE)  ...
    1996/11/29 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 68-year-old male dairy farmer (the victim) died after becoming entangled in the PTO driveline of a portable corn sheller. The sheller was connected to a tractor equipped with a power take-off (PTO) stub, which powered the drive line of the sheller. The victim was working with his two sons and a grandson in a farmyard, shelling corn. He had warned ...
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