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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 2901 - 2920 of 3531 results
  • Farmer killed after fall from and runover by moving windrower
    Farmer killed after fall from and runover by moving windrower
    Wisconsin Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (Wisconsin FACE)  ...
    1993/09/17 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 63 year old white male farmer fell when he attempted to jump onto a moving International 5000 windrower driven by a neighbor but owned by the farmer. When he recognized that his neighbor was unable to control the machine, the farmer climbed the fixed ladder attached to the cab to reach the controls. The farmer then lost his balance and fell appro ...
  • Massachusetts Drill Foreman Dies In Fall When Portion of Offshore Marine Rockdrilling Rig Resettles in Ocean Floor
    Massachusetts Drill Foreman Dies In Fall When Portion of Offshore Marine Rockdrilling Rig Resettles in Ocean Floor
    Massachusetts Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Project (Massachusetts FACE)  ...
    1993/09/15 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On July 20, 1992, while working on an ocean based jack-up barge, a 47 year old marine rockdrilling shift foreman died in a fall of approximately thirty-one feet when a two hundred and six foot casing that supported the surface on which he and two co-workers were situated, unexpectedly resettled in soft ocean bed sediment before coming to rest. Alth ...
  • Cement Finisher Dies After 17Foot Fall Through Unguarded Floor Opening North Carolina FACE 9321
    Cement Finisher Dies After 17-Foot Fall Through Unguarded Floor Opening - North Carolina: FACE 93-21
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1993/09/09 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A cement finisher died after stepping backwards and falling through an unguarded floor opening at a textile mill. The 38-year-old man was employed by a temporary employment service that supplied employees to a concrete contractor operated by the same owners. A three-story addition was being added to the spinning area of a textile mill. Concrete was ...
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  • Electrician Apprentice Dies Following a 33Foot Fall Through a Roof South Carolina FACE 9319
    Electrician Apprentice Dies Following a 33-Foot Fall Through a Roof - South Carolina: FACE 93-19
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1993/09/08 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    This case report concerns an electrician who fell 33 feet through a roof while working to install electrical conduit, wiring, and related components at a dust collecting silo located in the granule facility of a roofing products manufacturer. He was employed by an electrical contractor. The victim and four coworkers arrived at the facility and bega ...
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  • PartTime Farmer Dies in Tractor Rollover West Virginia FACE 9320
    Part-Time Farmer Dies in Tractor Rollover - West Virginia: FACE 93-20
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1993/09/08 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 35-year-old part time farmer died when a tractor rolled over on top of him. Prior to the accident he had approached the owner of a field for permission to mow the field for hay. The owner replied that he himself was not going to mow the field due to its uneven terrain and steep hillside. He offered the victim the use of his tractor. The tractor h ...
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  • Store Clerk Shot by Prison Guard in Wyoming
    Store Clerk Shot by Prison Guard in Wyoming
    Wyoming Fatal Accident Circumstances and Epidemiology Project (Wyoming FACE)  ...
    1993/09/03 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 26 year old female employee of a convenience store died of gunshot wounds incurred during an apparent homicide. The victim was talking on the phone when the shooting took place and the party on the phone heard the victim call a person's name, telling them "don't", and then heard the shots. A suspect was located shortly after the incident occurred ...
  • Two Men Die in Well Cleaning Operation Maryland FACE 9317
    Two Men Die in Well Cleaning Operation - Maryland: FACE 93-17
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1993/09/03 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    This report concerned the death of two self-employed part time well cleaners who drowned while cleaning a residential well. The first victim was a 40-year-old male and the second was 43 years of age. At the time of the accident, the first victim was at the well bottom brushing down the concrete casings and shoveling muck from the floor of the well. ...
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  • Worker Dies After Being Run Over by a Digger Derrick Truck
    Worker Dies After Being Run Over by a Digger Derrick Truck
    Minnesota Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Program (MN FACE)  ...
    1993/09/02 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 23-year-old male apprentice lineman (victim) died of injuries he received after being run over by the tandem dual rear tires of a digger derrick truck. The construction company the victim worked for had been sub-contracted to frame and set new electrical poles along a two-mile stretch of paved county road. He was part of a five-person crew that h ...
  • Electrician Apprentice Electrocuted After Contacting a 480Volt Conductor in South Carolina FACE 9318
    Electrician Apprentice Electrocuted After Contacting a 480-Volt Conductor in South Carolina: FACE 93-18
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1993/09/02 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 42-year-old male electrician apprentice was electrocuted when he lost his footing on a ladder and came in contact with an unguarded energized 480-volt overhead crane contact conductor. At the time of the accident the victim and two coworkers had finished performing maintenance on the hoisting motor of an overhead crane, and the victim had operate ...
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  • Sewage Treatment Plant Worker Dies After Falling 12 Feet Through a Floor Opening
    Sewage Treatment Plant Worker Dies After Falling 12 Feet Through a Floor Opening
    New Jersey Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (NJ FACE)  ...
    1993/09/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On May 13, 1993, a 51-year-old male sewage treatment plant worker was critically injured after falling 12 feet through a floor opening where he was using an overhead hoist to move materials to the basement of a plant building. The incident occurred after the victim and a co-worker had completed hoisting a pallet jack from the basement of the buildi ...
  • Massachusetts Bridge Painter Dies In Fall From Toppled Aerial Scissor Lift
    Massachusetts Bridge Painter Dies In Fall From Toppled Aerial Scissor Lift
    Massachusetts Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Project (Massachusetts FACE)  ...
    1993/08/30 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On June 24, 1992, a 32 year old male bridge painter died of injuries sustained in a 36 foot fall when his overextended scissor aerial platform tipped over on sloped terrain. Working alongside his cousin, who was also an employee of the painting company, the pair were working on an overextended scissor aerial platform beneath an interstate highway o ...
  • Commercial Route Refuse Collector Crushed When Refuse Truck Slid Into SemiTruck Trailer
    Commercial Route Refuse Collector Crushed When Refuse Truck Slid Into Semi-Truck Trailer
    Ray, Thomas D. ;
    Roberts, Daryl W.
    1993/08/27 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 57-year-old refuse collector died as a result of being crushed between his refuse truck and a parked semi-truck trailer. The refuse truck had become stuck on a snow covered driveway of a commercial loading dock. A wrecker truck was trying to pull the refuse truck from the driveway when the front of the truck unexpectedly slid sideways to the left ...
  • Technical Engineer Dies After Being Struck and Crushed by a BulldozerEarth Compactor Pennsylvania FACE 9307
    Technical Engineer Dies After Being Struck and Crushed by a Bulldozer/Earth Compactor - Pennsylvania: FACE 93-07
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1993/08/24 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    This report concerns the death of a 31-year-old technical engineer who was crushed by a 12-ton vehicle at a private landfill while attempting to obtain a soil sample for analysis. The driver of the bulldozer was preparing an access road to a new dumping site 100 yards from the existing site. The victim parked his truck and prepared to extract a soi ...
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  • Truck Driver Killed in Vehicle Overturn in Wyoming
    Truck Driver Killed in Vehicle Overturn in Wyoming
    Wyoming Fatal Accident Circumstances and Epidemiology Project (Wyoming FACE)  ...
    1993/08/22 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 51 year old female truck driver died from injuries received when the truck she was driving overturned while negotiating a curve on an Interstate highway near an old Overland Trail crossing. The victim was driving a semi-tractor with a single truck trailer loaded with refrigerated goods, on icy blacktop highway under dark and windy conditions. Her ...
  • Male Machinist Dies After Falling From the Top of a Disc Screen Machine
    Male Machinist Dies After Falling From the Top of a Disc Screen Machine
    Minnesota Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Program (MN FACE)  ...
    1993/08/20 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 60-year-old male machinist (victim) died of injuries he received after falling from the top of a disc screen machine, through a discharge chute, and onto a conveyor 18 feet below. He was working with four others on a project which involved removing disc screen rollers from four identical machines for disc space modification. They were working on ...
  • Man Dies After Falling From a HorseDrawn Wagon and Striking a Tree
    Man Dies After Falling From a Horse-Drawn Wagon and Striking a Tree
    Boyle, Debora ;
    Madery, Georjean
    1993/08/20 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 36-year-old male laborer (victim) died of injuries he received after falling from a run-away horse-drawn wagon and striking a tree. He was driving the wagon through a wooded area collecting maple sap from five sap-collecting workers for syrup processing. He was hauling a large oval 250-gallon tank in a wooden wagon with four rubber tires. He stoo ...
  • 19 year old International Future Farmers of America exchange student dies after crushing injuries following fall from tractor
    19 year old International Future Farmers of America exchange student dies after crushing injuries following fall from tractor
    Wisconsin Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (Wisconsin FACE)  ...
    1993/08/19 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 19 year old white male international agricultural exchange student was riding on the tractor drawbar between the tractor and the chopper box when he fell to the ground and was run over by the front left wheel of the chopper. The incident occurred in the gravel yard of the farm residence. The day was dry and sunny day. The driver of the tractor ca ...
  • Laborer Dies From Fall From Second Floor Window
    Laborer Dies From Fall From Second Floor Window
    New Jersey Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (NJ FACE)  ...
    1993/08/19 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On May 17, 1993, a 64-year-old male laborer fell 12 feet from a second floor window of a house undergoing renovations and landed on a concrete porch. He died at a hospital the next day. NJDOH FACE investigators concluded that, in order to prevent similar incidents in the future, the following safety guidelines should be followed: 1. Employers must ...
  • Male Truck Driver Dies After Falling From an Unguarded BuildingMounted Work Platform
    Male Truck Driver Dies After Falling From an Unguarded Building-Mounted Work Platform
    Boyle, Debora ;
    Madery, Georjean
    1993/08/18 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 60-year-old male bulk oil truck driver (victim) died of injuries he received after falling approximately 7 feet from an unguarded building-mounted work platform. The victim was re-filling his truck with lubricant for the next day's deliverieshe was alone at the time of the incident. Trucks were parked parallel to the 7-foot high, 10-foot long met ...
  • Truck Driver and Company President Electrocuted After Crane Boom Contacts Powerline West Virginia FACE 9314
    Truck Driver and Company President Electrocuted After Crane Boom Contacts Powerline - West Virginia: FACE 93-14
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1993/07/28 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    This report concerns the death of a 20-year-old male truck driver and a 70-year-old company president who were electrocuted when the boom of a truck mounted crane contacted an overhead powerline. The employer was a concrete products company that had been in business for about 11 years, employing 14 workers, three of whom were truck drivers. The tru ...
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