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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 when hay elevator he and 2 other men were moving came into contact with a high power transmission line
    Farmer dies when hay elevator he and 2 other men were moving came into contact with a high power transmission line
    Wisconsin Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (Wisconsin FACE)  ...
    1993/07/21 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 33 year old white male farmer was electrocuted when a hay elevator he was moving contacted a 7200 volt power line, 21 feet 10 inches above the ground. Over the years the Kewanee 45 foot hay elevator had been moved manually or by tractor solely by the farmer without mishap. On this occasion, the farmer and 2 other men (a neighbor and a hired hand ...
  • Worker Dies From Multiple Injuries After Fall into Baling Machine
    Worker Dies From Multiple Injuries After Fall into Baling Machine
    New Jersey Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (NJ FACE)  ...
    1993/07/20 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On January 15, 1993, a 25-year-old male printing company worker was killed when he fell into the hopper of a paper and cardboard baling machine and the machine was reactivated. NJDOH FACE investigators concluded that, in order to prevent similar incidents in the future, the following safety guidelines should be followed: 1. Employers must assess ea ...
  • Massachusetts Lead Chemical Technician Dies in Explosion During Chemical Synthesis Process
    Massachusetts Lead Chemical Technician Dies in Explosion During Chemical Synthesis Process
    Massachusetts Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Project (Massachusetts FACE)  ...
    1993/07/19 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 41 year-old male lead chemical technician (victim) died of injuries resulting from a flash explosion of volatile toluene inside a centrifuge. The victim was monitoring the production of sodium phenate. Just prior to the incident, he was peering through a sight glass centered in the steel centrifuge lid when the explosion blew the lid back, striki ...
  • 22 year old female firefighter trainee dies at the training academy after a 28 foot fall from a cat ladder during her second day of training
    22 year old female firefighter trainee dies at the training academy after a 28 foot fall from a cat ladder during her second day of training
    Wisconsin Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (Wisconsin FACE)  ...
    1993/07/14 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 22 year old female white firefighter trainee fell 28 feet from a cat ladder to concrete the second day of her initial training. She was climbing a cat ladder on a training tower in full turnout gear (jumpsuit, firehood, socks, boots, turnout coat and pants, helmet, gloves, and a spanner belt around her waist from which hung a fire axe) late in th ...
  • Massachusetts Public Utility Lineman Dies of Thermal Burns When Aerial Lift Hydraulic Hoses Ruptured and Ignited
    Massachusetts Public Utility Lineman Dies of Thermal Burns When Aerial Lift Hydraulic Hoses Ruptured and Ignited
    Massachusetts Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Project (Massachusetts FACE)  ...
    1993/07/13 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 53 year-old electrical lineman died from burns suffered while repairing a damaged utility pole. The victim was in a cherry picker bucket of an articulating line truck (ALT) at the time of the incident. Hydraulic fluid, which flowed through hoses, raised and lowered the bucket. Company and OSHA officials speculated that a massive short-circuit bur ...
  • Welder was electrocuted while attempting to connect two power cords
    Welder was electrocuted while attempting to connect two power cords
    Wisconsin Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (Wisconsin FACE)  ...
    1993/07/13 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 38 year old male welder was electrocuted while in the process of connecting two power cords (440 volts). The victim was working over his shift and was connecting an extension cord into the plug on a roller metal bending machine when he received an electrical shock which knocked him unconscious to the floor. The victim was standing on a dry surfac ...
  • Farmer dies 2 months following a 10 foot fall from a hay wagon
    Farmer dies 2 months following a 10 foot fall from a hay wagon
    Wisconsin Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (Wisconsin FACE)  ...
    1993/07/07 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 68 year old white male farmer who had spent his life on the family farm, died as the result of a fall from a hay wagon. The farmer and his wife were loading a small hay wagon with baled hay which they were going to take into the field feeding area. The farmer was on the stacked bales (about 10 feet high) when he slipped or fell forward to the con ...
  • Equipment Operator Struck and Killed by Skidder South Carolina FACE 9316
    Equipment Operator Struck and Killed by Skidder - South Carolina: FACE 93-16
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1993/07/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 28-year-old male equipment operator died of injuries received when he was struck by a skidder machine he had been operating. The victim was part of a four-man crew involved in cutting trees and moving logs from the cutting area to another site. The employer was a small logging company in operation for 12 years, employing three workers. The victim ...
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  • Counselor Dies in Traffic Crash in Wyoming
    Counselor Dies in Traffic Crash in Wyoming
    Wyoming Fatal Accident Circumstances and Epidemiology Project (Wyoming FACE)  ...
    1993/06/30 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 32 year old male group-home counselor died from injuries received in a two vehicle traffic crash on April 19, 1993. The victim was driving his personal car, a compact four-door sedan with four young passengers (ages 14 & 15) from the group-home residence to an in-town YMCA for an "adventure based training" program aimed at building self-esteem an ...
  • Laborer Struck by Building Materials in Wyoming
    Laborer Struck by Building Materials in Wyoming
    Wyoming Fatal Accident Circumstances and Epidemiology Project (Wyoming FACE)  ...
    1993/06/30 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 40 year old male home builder died from injuries suffered while he and two co-workers were attempting to unload sheets of steel siding off a truck by means of a crane. The stack of outer sheet steel was being lifted by attaching a truck-mounted crane to two nylon straps that were placed around each end of the 20' stack. When the crane began lifti ...
  • Salesman Strikes Backhoe with Pickup in Wyoming
    Salesman Strikes Backhoe with Pickup in Wyoming
    Wyoming Fatal Accident Circumstances and Epidemiology Project (Wyoming FACE)  ...
    1993/06/30 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 57 year old male drilling bit salesman died from injuries received when the company pickup he was driving struck the rear of a backhoe while rounding a curve at the hill crest of a two lane highway. On impact, the pickup frame buckled in the middle and the passenger compartment ignited, burning the pickup cab with the victim trapped inside. Emplo ...
  • PainterSandblaster Dies Following a 30Foot Fall from Scaffolding Inside a Water Tank South Carolina FACE 9315
    Painter/Sandblaster Dies Following a 30-Foot Fall from Scaffolding Inside a Water Tank - South Carolina: FACE 93-15
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1993/06/28 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    The case of a 48-year-old male painter/sandblaster who died after falling 30 feet from a tubular welded frame scaffold was examined. At the time of the accident the victim was employed by a commercial and industrial painting contractor that had been in operation for 14 years and employed about 100 workers. The victim had approximately 20 years of e ...
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  • One Firefighter Electrocuted and One Seriously Injured When An Aluminum Extension Ladder Contacts a 7600 Volt Overhead Power Line
    One Firefighter Electrocuted and One Seriously Injured When An Aluminum Extension Ladder Contacts a 7,600 Volt Overhead Power Line
    New Jersey Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (NJ FACE)  ...
    1993/06/24 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On March 20, 1993, a 47-year-old male firefighter was electrocuted, and a second firefighter was seriously injured while positioning a 35-foot aluminum extension ladder at a fire scene. The incident occurred outside a three-story building that had an active working fire on the third floor. The victim, who was off duty and in the area when the fire ...
  • Truck Driver Dies From Asphyxiation After Entanglement in Dump Truck Power Takeoff PTO Alaska
    Truck Driver Dies From Asphyxiation After Entanglement in Dump Truck Power Take-off (PTO) - Alaska
    Bledsoe, Gary ;
    Middaugh, John
    1993/06/24 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On December 22, 1992, a 36-year-old, male dump truck driver (the victim) was asphyxiated as a result of becoming entangled in the vehicle's power take-off driveline. The victim was attempting to clear a jam in the transmission linkage, which had become stuck in one gear. He climbed beneath the truck (on the driver's side) while the dump bed was ris ...
  • School Bus Driver Crushed While Preparing to Install Tire Chains on Minibus Alaska
    School Bus Driver Crushed While Preparing to Install Tire Chains on Minibus - Alaska
    Alaska Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (Alaska FACE)  ...
    1993/06/16 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 54-year-old male school bus driver (the victim) died while installing tire chains on a 16-passenger minibus. While driving up a steep, icy hill, the driver was having difficulty controlling the minibus, which began slipping backward before reaching the top. The driver stopped the bus, put it in park, and engaged the emergency brake. He disembarke ...
  • School Bus Driver Crushed While Preparing to Install Tire Chains on Minibus Alaska FACE 9306
    School Bus Driver Crushed While Preparing to Install Tire Chains on Minibus - Alaska: FACE 93-06
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1993/06/16 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    The case of a 54-year-old school bus driver who was crushed while installing tire chains was reviewed. The driver was transporting developmentally disabled children in a minibus. The road was covered with snow, with a glaze of ice and rain. While attempting to drive up a long, steep hill (up to 11.8% grade), he experienced difficulty controlling th ...
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  • Two Carpenters Died Of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Secondary To Running A Gas Powered Engine in a Confined Space Basement of a Home
    Two Carpenters Died Of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Secondary To Running A Gas Powered Engine in a Confined Space (Basement of a Home)
    Wisconsin Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (Wisconsin FACE)  ...
    1993/06/11 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    Two carpenters were overcome by carbon monoxide when they entered a basement area where a gas powered engine was running. There was no electricity at the site yet and the gas engine was the source of power for the power tools they were using to put the first floor on the house foundation. No one witnessed the incident, it appears that the first wor ...
  • Male Maintenance Worker Buried and Suffocated in Sand Hopper
    Male Maintenance Worker Buried and Suffocated in Sand Hopper
    Boyle, Debora ;
    Madery, Georjean
    1993/06/09 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 39-year-old male maintenance worker (victim) at a ready-mix concrete batch plant suffocated after falling into or entering a sand hopper and being buried by approximately 9 feet of sand. There were no witnesses and no personal protective equipment was being used by the victim at the time of the incident. Six cement ingredient hoppers, approximate ...
  • Male FarmerHandyman Dies After Falling From an Unstable Ladder
    Male Farmer/Handyman Dies After Falling From an Unstable Ladder
    Boyle, Debora ;
    Madery, Georjean
    1993/06/09 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 57-year-old male farmer/handyman (victim) died of complications from injuries he received after falling approximately 18 feet from an unstable ladder. The victim was connecting a stir auger apparatus to electrical power in an empty, newly-constructed 30-foot diameter grain storage bin. The apparatus consisted of a 15-foot long auger arm and three ...
  • Refuse Collector Crushed by Refuse Truck Compactor
    Refuse Collector Crushed by Refuse Truck Compactor
    Ray, Thomas D. ;
    Roberts, Daryl W.
    1993/06/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 24-year-old refuse collector died as a result of being crushed by the compactor blade of a refuse truck. The victim had reached into the truck compactor compartment to salvage a piece of brass from a discarded lavatory. The compactor blade inadvertently activated and the victim could not escape. The MO FACE investigator concluded that to prevent ...
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