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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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  • Farmer Dies From Being Entangled in Unguarded PTO Unit on Hay Elevator
    Farmer Dies From Being Entangled in Unguarded PTO Unit on Hay Elevator
    Wisconsin Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (Wisconsin FACE)  ...
    1996/11/29 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 79-year-old male farm worker (the victim) died after becoming entangled in the rotating driveline of a portable hay elevator. The elevator was connected to a tractor equipped with a power take-off (PTO), which powered the chain and sprocket drive of the elevator. Neither the tractor PTO stub shaft, the drive line nor the chain and sprocket were g ...
  • Laborer falls 48 feet to his death while painting inside of empty storage silo
    Laborer falls 48 feet to his death while painting inside of empty storage silo
    Barrett, Charles L. ;
    Warren, Richard L.
    1996/11/27 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On September 20, 1996, a 28-year-old male laborer/painter (the victim) fell nearly 48 feet to his death while painting the inside of a storage silo. The 48-foot silo, empty at the time of the fatal incident, is normally used to store tiny plastic pellets used in the manufacturing of plastic soda bottles. It had previously had been sandblasted in pr ...
  • Farmer Dies After Tractor He was Driving Rolled Over on Him 96MN07001
    Farmer Dies After Tractor He was Driving Rolled Over on Him [96MN07001]
    Parker, David L. ;
    Wahl, George
    1996/11/26 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    An 87-year-old farmer (victim) died of injuries he sustained when the tractor he was driving overturned. He used the tractor to pull a trailer into a pasture to repair a fence. After several fence posts and a few hand tools were loaded into the trailer, the victim's son walked around the pasture to chase several cows toward an opening in the fence ...
  • Farmer Dies After Tractor He was Driving Rolled Over on Him 96MN07101
    Farmer Dies After Tractor He was Driving Rolled Over on Him [96MN07101]
    Parker, David L. ;
    Wahl, George
    1996/11/26 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 59-year-old farmer (victim) died of injuries sustained when the tractor he was driving overturned. He used a farm tractor and loader to move a large round hay bale into a cattle lot. The tractor was not equipped with a rollover protective structure and a seat belt. The victim picked up a large round hay bale with the loader and drove the tractor ...
  • Steel Rack Installer Dies After Being Struck by 3000 Pound Bundle of Rack End Pieces South Carolina FACE 9624
    Steel Rack Installer Dies After Being Struck by 3,000 Pound Bundle of Rack End Pieces - South Carolina: FACE 96-24
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1996/11/26 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    This report concerns the death of a 35-year-old male steel rack installer who was struck by a 3,000-pound bundle of rack ends. The employer had been subcontracted to install steel racks to be used as open shelving space in a warehouse under construction. The racks were 28 feet high and 5 feet deep and varied in width. The rack ends arrived in bundl ...
    Public Domain
  • Electrical Testing Laboratory Technician Killed After Contacting 26000 Volts and Falling From a Ladder
    Electrical Testing Laboratory Technician Killed After Contacting 26,000 Volts and Falling From a Ladder
    New Jersey Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (NJ FACE)  ...
    1996/11/25 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On June 18, 1996, a 45-year-old laboratory technician was killed when he contacted 26,000 volts and fell from a rolling ladder while disassembling an experiment. The incident occurred at a cable testing laboratory that tested samples of high-voltage electrical cables. The laboratory had just completed artificially aging several samples of electrica ...
  • Painter Dies After Falling from Aerial Platform Virginia FACE 9620
    Painter Dies After Falling from Aerial Platform - Virginia: FACE 96-20
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1996/11/25 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    This report concerned the death of a 43-year-old male painter who died after falling from the deck of an elevated aerial platform while painting a ceiling inside a fitness center. The employer was a painting contractor which had been in business for 4 years, employing 20 workers. A three-man crew had been at the site for about 2 weeks. Access to th ...
    Public Domain
  • SixteenYearOld ElectricalContractor Laborer Electrocuted Texas FACE 9619
    Sixteen-Year-Old Electrical-Contractor Laborer Electrocuted - Texas: FACE 96-19
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1996/11/25 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 16-year-old laborer employed by an electrical construction and maintenance company was electrocuted as he was coiling a deenergized power line which contacted an energized overhead power line. The worker was standing on the ground at the time of the accident. The task was being performed by three summer hires who had not received training for the ...
    Public Domain
  • Machinist Crushed to Death While Cleaning a Grinding Machine
    Machinist Crushed to Death While Cleaning a Grinding Machine
    New Jersey Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (NJ FACE)  ...
    1996/11/22 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On May 30, 1996, a 22-year-old machinist was crushed to death while servicing an industrial vertical surface grinding machine. The incident occurred when the victim was cleaning out the cooling fluid sump located near the bottom of the grinder. To reach into the sump, the victim laid across the grinder's magnetic chuck (table) that holds and turns ...
  • Truck Rental Service laborer dies when struck by lock ring from exploded truck tire
    Truck Rental Service laborer dies when struck by lock ring from exploded truck tire
    Barrett, Charles L. ;
    Warren, Richard L.
    1996/11/20 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On June 13, 1996, a 24-year-old male laborer (the victim) died from injuries sustained when he was struck by a lock ring from an exploding truck tire. The victim had begun work on replacing two left rear inside tube type two-piece split rim 10R22 truck tires for a corporation tanker trailer. The victim had completed inflating the new truck tire to ...
  • Foreman Dies When Struck by Front End Loader at a Massachusetts Scrap Metal Recycling Plant
    Foreman Dies When Struck by Front End Loader at a Massachusetts Scrap Metal Recycling Plant
    Massachusetts Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Project (Massachusetts FACE)  ...
    1996/11/07 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On July 28, 1995, a 31 year old male recycling plant foreman died when he was run over and crushed by a front end loader. In the yard outside the plant at the time of the incident, the victim was struck by the loader when its brakes failed as it backed down an incline after depositing cans into a hopper for processing. Having seen the victim behind ...
  • Massachusetts Plumber Falls When Extension Ladder Collapses
    Massachusetts Plumber Falls When Extension Ladder Collapses
    Massachusetts Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Project (Massachusetts FACE)  ...
    1996/11/05 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On November 6, 1995, a 37 year old male plumber was fatally injured when he fell approximately 20 feet from an extension ladder which had collapsed. The ladder collapsed while the victim was descending from a roof where he had been inspecting the ventilation system with a co-worker. He suffered severe head trauma in the fall. An ambulance was calle ...
  • Mill Operator caught in a conveyor discharge hopper and died of mechanical compression asphyxia
    Mill Operator caught in a conveyor discharge hopper and died of mechanical compression asphyxia
    Ticer, Letha ;
    Weber, Philip P.
    1996/11/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On May 25, 1996, a 32-year-old, Mill Operator (the victim) died when he was caught in a conveyor feed hopper, at a gypsum wallboard and plaster manufacturing plant. The victim had used a rubber tired front-end loader to fill the raw material bin outside the building where the conveyor was located. Upon the completion of that task, he was assigned t ...
  • Backhoe operator dies when run over by his backhoe in California
    Backhoe operator dies when run over by his backhoe in California
    California Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (CA/FACE)  ...
    1996/11/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 46-year-old male backhoe operator (victim) died after being run over by the front and rear wheels and the front bucket of his Rollover Protective Structure (ROPS)-equipped backhoe at a construction site. The backhoe was positioned with the right rear tire near the top edge of a 10-foot-high slope with the front of the backhoe and its wheels angle ...
  • Warehouse Worker Dies After Falling 9 Feet From a Forklift Truck Platform
    Warehouse Worker Dies After Falling 9 Feet From a Forklift Truck Platform
    New Jersey Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (NJ FACE)  ...
    1996/10/31 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On May 1, 1996, a 36-year-old furniture warehouse worker was killed after falling from a platform mounted on the forks of an order-picker forklift truck. The incident occurred when the victim and a co-worker were moving boxes of furniture onto a newly installed racking system. The workers had loaded the boxes onto the forklift platform and were rai ...
  • Welder Dies After 30foot Fall From Steel Structure
    Welder Dies After 30-foot Fall From Steel Structure
    Kentucky Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (KY FACE)  ...
    1996/10/31 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 31-year-old welder working at a construction site died after falling 30 feet. The victim, along with two co-workers, was on an I-beam structure preparing to weld handrails when the incident occurred. The victim informed his two co-workers that he was going to talk with another person on the crew and left the area. He was wearing a hard hat, full- ...
  • Developmentally disabled worker dies after being run over by a frontend loader in California
    Developmentally disabled worker dies after being run over by a front-end loader in California
    California Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (CA/FACE)  ...
    1996/10/31 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 51-year-old male, developmentally disabled worker (the victim) was run over by a front-end loader while he was at work at a recycling facility. The victim and six of his co-workers (also workers with disabilities) had been assigned the task of cleaning up trash. Their supervisor was operating the front-end loader when the incident occurred. One o ...
  • Construction Worker Dies After Being Buried In A Trench That Caved In 96MN05901
    Construction Worker Dies After Being Buried In A Trench That Caved In [96MN05901]
    Minnesota Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Program (MN FACE)  ...
    1996/10/30 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 46-year-old construction worker died of injuries he sustained when the trench he was working in caved in. Workers were using the trench to make a water line connection between the well and the water supply line that extended through the concrete footings of a new house. Copper pipe was used to make this waterline connection. On the day of the inc ...
  • Pea Combine OperatorCleaner Dies After Being Run Over By Pea Combine
    Pea Combine Operator/Cleaner Dies After Being Run Over By Pea Combine
    Parker, David L. ;
    Wahl, George
    1996/10/28 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 19-year old male pea combine operator/cleaner (victim) died of injuries sustained when he was run over by a pea combine. The victim and six coworkers arrived shortly before 6:00 p.m. at a partially harvested pea field. The victim operated one of four pea combines for about three hours until the crew was notified to stop harvesting for several hou ...
  • Welder dies when crushed by a falling structural steel beam tipped over by a crane in California
    Welder dies when crushed by a falling structural steel beam tipped over by a crane in California
    California Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (CA/FACE)  ...
    1996/10/25 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 30-year-old male welder (victim) died after being crushed by a structural steel I-beam at a fabrication facility. The victim had just finished welding brackets onto the beam and a crane operator had moved it onto the edge of a number of metal saw horses. The victim was standing near the beam, to take over the crane's pendant (suspended, floor-lev ...
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