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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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Showing 2421 - 2440 of 3531 results
  • Mill Owner dies in Tractor Rollover
    Mill Owner dies in Tractor Rollover
    Kentucky Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (KY FACE)  ...
    1996/09/20 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 51-year-old mill owner (the victim) was killed while pulling a 16-foot log from the woods. He had reached the top of a 10-12-degree slope, turned slightly to the left and stopped, when the tractor he was driving turned over. It landed on the victim and then rolled again. The victim's partner, who was with him, ran to a nearby house where he had s ...
  • Farmer Killed in Tractor Rollover 96KY088
    Farmer Killed in Tractor Rollover [96KY088]
    Kentucky Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (KY FACE)  ...
    1996/09/19 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On August 22, 1996, a 75-year-old farmer was killed when the tractor he was operating rolled over onto him. He was using a 1979 IH Farmall 140, towing a flatbed wagon along the perimeter of a tobacco patch. As he turned left to proceed around the field, the left tractor wheels went over an embankment, causing the tractor to roll over. The victim wa ...
  • Massachusetts Temporary Laborer is Crushed in Baler at Recycling Facility
    Massachusetts Temporary Laborer is Crushed in Baler at Recycling Facility
    Massachusetts Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Project (Massachusetts FACE)  ...
    1996/09/11 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On March 10, 1996, a 43 year old male temporary laborer was fatally injured when he fell into a box/can horizontal baler and was crushed. The laborer had been pushing boxes into the vertical feed hopper of the baler when he climbed onto the edge of the hopper to push with his foot. He fell into the baler and was unable to climb out. He yelled for h ...
  • Iron Worker Apprentice Dies in Fall of Fifty Feet on Massachusetts Construction Site
    Iron Worker Apprentice Dies in Fall of Fifty Feet on Massachusetts Construction Site
    Massachusetts Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Project (Massachusetts FACE)  ...
    1996/09/11 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On June 5, 1995, a 47 year old male iron worker apprentice died of injuries sustained in a fifty foot fall on a Massachusetts construction site. The victim was assisting a co-worker to lay out and fasten metal decking to structural steel for a motor vehicle ramp when the incident occurred. The victim stepped on an unsecured piece of decking, and fe ...
  • Supervisor Dies as a Result of Injuries Sustained in Fall with Powered Vertical Lift Aerial Platform Virginia
    Supervisor Dies as a Result of Injuries Sustained in Fall with Powered Vertical Lift Aerial Platform - Virginia
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1996/09/11 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 37-year-old man died after falling 15 feet when the vertical lift aerial platform he was operating tipped over. The victim worked for a heating and air conditioning company which employed 33 workers. The company was installing air conditioning units and related electrical wiring at a newly constructed department store in Virginia. The victim was ...
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  • Equipment Operator Dies After Scraper Overturns Virginia FACE 9616
    Equipment Operator Dies After Scraper Overturns - Virginia: FACE 96-16
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1996/09/11 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    The death of a 47-year-old man who was operating a scraper when it overturned during a parkway construction project was investigated. The man worked for a road construction company which employed about 160 workers. He had been moving earth out of a cut area into a fill area and was in the process of completing a U-turn. During the turn, the right t ...
    Public Domain
  • Truck driver dies when crushed by forklift in California
    Truck driver dies when crushed by forklift in California
    California Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (CA/FACE)  ...
    1996/09/04 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 39-year-old male truck driver (victim) died after being crushed between a forklift and a flat-bed trailer. The victim was exchanging a repaired forklift for a loaner forklift. He had driven the loaner to where his tractor/trailer rig was parked. He had removed the blades of the loaner forklift and placed them under pallets on the trailer. The vic ...
  • Two Truck Drivers Die After Cement Tank Collapses Virginia FACE 9622
    Two Truck Drivers Die After Cement Tank Collapses - Virginia: FACE 96-22
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1996/09/04 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    The collapse of a cement filled tank at a concrete facility resulted in the deaths of a 31 old truck driver and a 29-year-old truck driver. The manager of the facility was loading trucks when the system which transported the aggregate to the weigh hopper under one tank began to malfunction. The manager began a trouble shooting procedure to determin ...
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  • Yardworker dies after forklift dropped a unit of wafer board on him while he was stacking and straightening lumber
    Yard-worker dies after forklift dropped a unit of wafer board on him while he was stacking and straightening lumber
    Barrett, Charles L. ;
    Warren, Richard L.
    1996/09/03 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On June 4, 1996, a 16-year-old male yard-worker (the victim) died after a 4,320-pound unit of wafer board fell on him at the home service center where he worked. The victim and a co-worker were stacking and straightening lumber behind three stacked units of wafer board totaling 9 feet 4 inches in height and 8 feet in width. A forklift approached fr ...
  • Occupational fatalities in Kentucky 1994
    Occupational fatalities in Kentucky - 1994.
    Moon-Hampton E ;
    Pollack SH
    1996/09/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    In Kentucky, seven out of nine industry groups exceed the national average fatality rates; in 1994, the agriculture/forestry/fishing industry rate of 80/ 100,000 was more than three times the national average. This paper describes the occupational fatality data collected during the first year of operation (1994) of the Fatality Assessment and Contr ...
    Peer Reviewed
  • Occupational Fatalities in Kentucky 1994
    Occupational Fatalities in Kentucky - 1994
    Moon-Hampton E ;
    Pollack SH
    1996/09/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    In Kentucky, seven out of nine industry groups exceed the national average fatality rates; in 1994, the agriculture/forestry/fishing industry rate of 80/ 100,000 was more than three times the national average. This paper describes the occupational fatality data collected during the first year of operation (1994) of the Fatality Assessment and Contr ...
    Peer Reviewed
  • Warning electrocution hazard to workers servicing overhead fluorescent light fixtures
    Warning: electrocution hazard to workers servicing overhead fluorescent light fixtures.
    New Jersey. Department of Health
    1996/09/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    The New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services (NJDHSS) is alerting employers and workers who service or work near overhead fluorescent light fixtures. Since 1990, the NJDHSS Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Project has received reports of seven incidents where workers were electrocuted as they were working on or near the ...
  • Farmer Dies After Being Struck By A Chain Used To Pull A Machine From A Field
    Farmer Dies After Being Struck By A Chain Used To Pull A Machine From A Field
    Parker, David L. ;
    Wahl, George
    1996/08/30 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 45-year-old male farmer (victim) died from injuries sustained when he was struck by a chain that was being used to pull a piece of equipment from a field. Earlier that day a tractor was driven, pulling a field cultivator to a farm field. While the cultivator was being pulled toward the field it's wheels cut into wet ground and the tractor and cul ...
  • Farmer Killed When Crushed by Tractor
    Farmer Killed When Crushed by Tractor
    Kentucky Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (KY FACE)  ...
    1996/08/28 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 70-year-old farmer (the victim) was killed while mowing his pasture. He had completed mowing around the top of a ridge, and was beginning to mow the sloping sections, when the power take-off (PTO) shaft connecting the rotary mower (bushhog) to the tractor came off. When he attempted to re-attach the shaft, the tractor began to roll down the steep ...
  • Iron worker falls 19 stories after welding lead melts steel cage cable Iowa
    Iron worker falls 19 stories after welding lead melts steel cage cable -- Iowa.
    Johnson, Wayne ;
    Rautiainen, Risto
    1996/08/26 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    In February 1996 a 43 year old welder for an iron erection company died when his suspended metal cage fell 19 stories from the side of a new building. The victim and a co-worker had been arc welding on the west face of a new high-rise building, each supported separately in a metal cage suspended by a 1/2 inch steel cable. The victim had an electric ...
  • Sheet Operator Dies after Being Crushed by the Forks on a Sheeting Unit in California
    Sheet Operator Dies after Being Crushed by the Forks on a Sheeting Unit in California
    California Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (CA/FACE)  ...
    1996/08/26 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 26-year-old male sheet operator (the victim) died after being struck in the head with the loading arms (receiving forks) of a sheeter unit. This machine cuts and stacks cardboard in a folding carton operation, as part of the manufacture of cardboard boxes. The victim was adjusting the belts on the underside of the conveyor section of the unit whe ...
  • Farmer Dies After Being Engulfed in Corn Inside A Steel Grain Bin 96MN04701
    Farmer Dies After Being Engulfed in Corn Inside A Steel Grain Bin [96MN04701]
    Minnesota Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Program (MN FACE)  ...
    1996/08/23 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 71-year-old male farmer (victim) suffocated after he was engulfed in corn inside a steel bin. The bin was equipped with an unloading auger mounted between a raised steel floor and the concrete base that supported the bin. It was also equipped with a grain drying unit that included a fan that could be used to aerate the stored grain by circulating ...
  • Worker Electrocuted After Touching Dump Truck That Contacted Overhead Power Line
    Worker Electrocuted After Touching Dump Truck That Contacted Overhead Power Line
    Brown, Margee ;
    Parker, David L.
    1996/08/23 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 36-year-old male skid-steer loader operator (victim) was electrocuted when he touched a dump truck that contacted an overhead power line. The victim was working with a truck driver from another business at the time that the incident occurred. The victim and the truck driver were working together on a project that involved spreading rocks on a res ...
  • Equipment Operator Dies After the Backhoe He Was Operating Rolled Off an Embankment in California
    Equipment Operator Dies After the Backhoe He Was Operating Rolled Off an Embankment in California
    California Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (CA/FACE)  ...
    1996/08/21 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 55-year-old male equipment operator (the victim) died from injuries he sustained after the backhoe he was operating rolled over the side of an embankment. The victim was performing road maintenance work using a backhoe to move dirt from an upper to a lower embankment as part of a road widening operation. After the backhoe went over the embankment ...
  • Maintenance Mechanic Died after Falling Approximately 30 Feet from an Elevated Forklift Platform in California
    Maintenance Mechanic Died after Falling Approximately 30 Feet from an Elevated Forklift Platform in California
    California Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (CA/FACE)  ...
    1996/08/20 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 44-year-old, male maintenance mechanic (the victim) died after falling approximately 30 feet from an elevated platform (crow's nest) that was being lifted by a forklift. The crow's nest was 48" x 26", was equipped with a 36" protective rail, and was attached to the top of a 15' pole. The victim had requested that a coworker, who had not been trai ...
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