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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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  • Bridge Painter Dies In Fall While Working on Massachusetts Bridge
    Bridge Painter Dies In Fall While Working on Massachusetts Bridge
    Massachusetts Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Project (Massachusetts FACE)  ...
    1994/01/12 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On May 27, 1993, a 44 year old, male bridge painter fell approximately 134 feet to his death from a Massachusetts bridge. The victim was apparently aiding in the retrieval of a suspended cable running along the bridge when he fell from outside the bridge's suicide barrier at the highest center span of the bridge. At the time of the incident the vic ...
  • Heavy Construction Equipment Mechanic Dies From Electrocution
    Heavy Construction Equipment Mechanic Dies From Electrocution
    Boyle, Debora ;
    Madery, Georjean
    1994/01/06 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 33-year-old male heavy construction equipment field mechanic (victim), repairing a tractor at a residential construction site, was struck and electrocuted by a severed overhead power line. Two other mechanics were in the process of repairing a drive sprocket of an excavator parked 150 feet away from the tractor. The tractor, the excavator, and a ...
  • Factory Worker Dies After Fall From Collapsing Scaffold
    Factory Worker Dies After Fall From Collapsing Scaffold
    New Jersey Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (NJ FACE)  ...
    1993/12/17 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On Sunday, March 14, 1993, a 35-year-old foundry worker was killed when he fell 35 feet from a collapsing scaffold. The worker was involved in the process of relining the interior of an iron-melting furnace (cupola), a process referred to as rebricking. The scaffold was improperly connected to temporary anchors (tack-welded washers) which were not ...
  • Courtesy clerk at grocery store falls from a ladder and dies in California
    Courtesy clerk at grocery store falls from a ladder and dies in California
    Fowler, John ;
    Harrison, Robert
    1993/12/15 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 17-year-old white male courtesy clerk (victim) died after falling approximately eight feet from a ladder in a grocery store. The victim was attempting to put the ladder away for the evening when the incident occurred. This was not a part of his (victim's) usual duties as a courtesy clerk. He was attempting to help his supervisor clean up at the e ...
  • Farmer Dies Following Fall Down Silo Chute and After Striking a Motor and a Pulley
    Farmer Dies Following Fall Down Silo Chute and After Striking a Motor and a Pulley.
    Wisconsin Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (Wisconsin FACE)  ...
    1993/12/08 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 60 year old male farmer (the victim) died after falling down a silo chute and striking his head against a pulley and motor. The silo was located at the end of the dairy barn and the silo room connected the silo and the barn. The farmer had apparently climbed up the silo chute to repair the silo unloader. A pail of tools which contained a chain ta ...
  • Massachusetts Water Works Specialty Valve Foreman Dies in Oxygen Deficient Valve Chamber
    Massachusetts Water Works Specialty Valve Foreman Dies in Oxygen Deficient Valve Chamber
    Massachusetts Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Project (Massachusetts FACE)  ...
    1993/12/07 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    During an overtime detail on the evening of September 11, 1992, a 26 year old male public water works specialty valve foreman was overcome and collapsed one to four minutes following entry into in an oxygen deficient underground valve chamber while purging air from an inactive aqueduct (waterline) scheduled for restoration. A co-worker and municipa ...
  • Farmers Helper Dies of Asphyxiation in Grain Bin
    Farmer's Helper Dies of Asphyxiation in Grain Bin
    Wisconsin Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (Wisconsin FACE)  ...
    1993/12/07 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 63-year old male farmer's helper (the victim) died after becoming engulfed in shelled corn inside a grain storage bin. The bin was located on the farmer's property and was approximately one-half filled at the time of the incident (3,000 bushels). The farmer had called upon his cousin (farmers' helper-victim) to help him unload corn from the stora ...
  • Iron Worker Dies From Fall From Structural Steel
    Iron Worker Dies From Fall From Structural Steel
    New Jersey Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (NJ FACE)  ...
    1993/12/07 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On August 5, 1993, a 47-year-old male iron worker fell 80 feet from a steel cross brace on an outdoor conveyor system to wooden timbers on the ground below. The victim fell as he walked across a section of 8-inch-wide structural steel. NJDOH FACE investigators concluded that, in order to prevent similar incidents in the future, the following safety ...
  • Truck Driver Dies After Falling 12 Feet While Securing A Load of Roof Trusses
    Truck Driver Dies After Falling 12 Feet While Securing A Load of Roof Trusses
    New Jersey Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (NJ FACE)  ...
    1993/12/02 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On July 14, 1993, a 54-year-old male truck driver was critically injured after falling 12 feet from a load of wooden roof trusses he was securing on the trailer of his truck. The incident occurred after the victim had climbed on top of the load and was securing the trusses with a hand-operated metal strap bander. As he was using the bander he appar ...
  • Maintenance worker dies when he falls into a railroad tank car in Colorado
    Maintenance worker dies when he falls into a railroad tank car in Colorado.
    Hoffman, Richard E. ;
    McCammon, Jane B.
    1993/12/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 22-year-old maintenance worker at a railcar repair facility was fatally injured when he was overcome by diesel fumes and fell into the tank car he was inspecting. The employee was inspecting the tank car that had recently been sprayed with hot diesel fuel. When the employee knelt down and put his head into the access hatch, he was overcome by the ...
  • Roofer Dies After Falling 30 Feet From a Ladder When An Aluminum Pole Contacts an Overhead Power Line
    Roofer Dies After Falling 30 Feet From a Ladder When An Aluminum Pole Contacts an Overhead Power Line
    New Jersey Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (NJ FACE)  ...
    1993/12/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On August 18, 1993, a 36-year-old male roofer was fatally injured after falling 30 feet from an wooden ladder when the metal pole of a mop he was holding contacted a 3,600 volt overhead power line. The incident occurred while the victim was climbing up a ladder to the roof of a three-story row house. As he was stepping off the ladder to the roof, t ...
  • Welder Dies as a Result of a Fishing Vessel Explosion Alaska
    Welder Dies as a Result of a Fishing Vessel Explosion -- Alaska
    Alaska Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (Alaska FACE)  ...
    1993/12/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On May 26, 1993, a 40-year-old, male welder (victim) was killed as a result of traumatic impact injuries during the explosion of a fishing vessel undergoing repairs. The victim was welding a broken light bar inside the 30-foot fishing skiff in front of the control console prior to the explosion. At the time of the explosion, the victim was standing ...
  • Owner of an Auto Dealership Dies of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning While Doing Car Repairs in an Unventilated Garage
    Owner of an Auto Dealership Dies of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning While Doing Car Repairs in an Unventilated Garage
    Wisconsin Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (Wisconsin FACE)  ...
    1993/11/20 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 50 year old male owner of a car dealership was overcome by carbon monoxide when he was apparently repairing an automobile with the engine running in an unventilated garage. According to the victim's friend, he and the victim ate pizza and had a beer together late at night at the garage. He left the garage at midnight while the victim stayed on. E ...
  • Laborer Dies of Complications after receiving severe electrical shock Installing a TV tower
    Laborer Dies of Complications after receiving severe electrical shock Installing a TV tower
    Barrett, Charles L. ;
    Warren, Richard L.
    1993/11/18 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 51-year-old male (the decedent), a co-worker, and the employer were installing a TV tower at the side of a building housing the employer's business. A hole approximately one foot square was pre-dug to set the base of the TV tower. The hole was located about 34 inches away from the building and 20 feet horizontally from an overhead power line. The ...
  • Iron Worker Dies in Fall from a Roof Support to the Concrete Floor of a Framed Structural Steel Building
    Iron Worker Dies in Fall from a Roof Support to the Concrete Floor of a Framed Structural Steel Building
    Barrett, Charles L. ;
    Warren, Richard L.
    1993/11/17 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 37-year old male iron worker (the decedent), died from injuries sustained in a fall from a roof support to the concrete floor of a framed structural steel building. The decedent was the foreman of five co-workers staging material for the next days work. The decedent sent his co-workers down when the wind became gusty about the time of the inciden ...
  • Chief Lineman Electrocuted After Contacting 4200 Volts While Repairing A Downed Power Line
    Chief Lineman Electrocuted After Contacting 4,200 Volts While Repairing A Downed Power Line
    New Jersey Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (NJ FACE)  ...
    1993/11/15 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On March 6, 1993, a 47-year-old male power company chief lineman was electrocuted after making contact with 4,200 volts from an energized power line. The incident occurred when the victim was preparing to splice a length of copper wire to a power line that had broken during a storm. Although the line was thought to have been de-energized, feedback ...
  • Facilities Journeyman Electrician Electrocuted While Doing Electrical Maintenance Work in California
    Facilities Journeyman Electrician Electrocuted While Doing Electrical Maintenance Work in California
    Fowler, John ;
    Harrison, Robert
    1993/11/15 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 35-year-old white male facilities journeyman electrician (victim) was electrocuted while doing electrical maintenance work on a power mound (transformer) in a shipyard. The power mound provided power to numerous essential power activities including shipboard activities, confined spaces, lighting, and power hand tools. The incident site (south pow ...
  • Warehouse laborer falls and dies after being lifted by a forklift to retrieve boxes in warehouse in California
    Warehouse laborer falls and dies after being lifted by a forklift to retrieve boxes in warehouse in California
    Fowler, John ;
    Harrison, Robert
    1993/11/15 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 33-year-old Hispanic male (victim) warehouse laborer fell six feet and died after being raised by a forklift to gather some boxes. The victim was standing on a wooden pallet which had been lifted approximately six feet off the ground in order to retrieve boxes in an electronics store warehouse. The victim's supervisor was in the immediate area at ...
  • Electrician Falls from Ladder in Wyoming
    Electrician Falls from Ladder in Wyoming
    Wyoming Fatal Accident Circumstances and Epidemiology Project (Wyoming FACE)  ...
    1993/11/14 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 58 year old male electrician died in a hospital from injuries he had received 10 days earlier when he fell from a ladder while changing a light bulb in an apartment building where he was in charge of maintenance. The victim was transported by ambulance to the hospital emergency room with hemorrhagic contusion, multiple rib fractures, appearance o ...
  • Two Metal Refinishers Die When Fumes Ignite in Elevator Car
    Two Metal Refinishers Die When Fumes Ignite in Elevator Car
    Ray, Thomas D. ;
    Roberts, Daryl W.
    1993/11/14 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    Two men died and one co-worker was injured when fumes ignited inside an elevator car the men were refinishing. The workers were using a lacquer stripper to remove the lacquer finish and polish the underlying brass metal elevator interior. The three workers were locked inside the elevator car with the door closed when the fumes ignited and filled th ...
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