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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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  • Electrical engineer dies after receiving burns from an electrical panel in California
    Electrical engineer dies after receiving burns from an electrical panel in California
    Fowler, John ;
    Harrison, Robert
    1993/04/15 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 33-year-old male electrical engineer (victim) died from injuries sustained in an electrical fire, while trying to get the serial number from an electrical panel. The building where the incident occurred was being used as a movie production studio. The victim had come in for his final paycheck and was no longer employed by the production company a ...
  • Painter falls from an apartment complex window and dies in California
    Painter falls from an apartment complex window and dies in California
    Fowler, John ;
    Harrison, Robert
    1993/04/15 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 38-year-old male Korean painter (victim) died after falling approximately 40 feet from a third story apartment complex window, where he had been doing preparation work prior to beginning a paint job. The victim was doing a routine job when the incident occurred. A ladder and a broken screen were found next to him on the concrete sidewalk below. T ...
  • Machine Operator Crushed in Conveyor Belt in California
    Machine Operator Crushed in Conveyor Belt in California
    Fowler, John ;
    Harrison, Robert
    1993/04/15 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 22-year-old Hispanic male machine operator (victim) died after being pulled into a conveyor belt and crushed. The victim climbed down into a pit next to a conveyor belt in order to clean the area or remove a piece of wood. Although this was not a routine part of his job, the victim would enter the pit occasionally to clean the area or remove a pi ...
  • Plumber electrocuted while working in a crawlspace in California
    Plumber electrocuted while working in a crawlspace in California
    Fowler, John ;
    Harrison, Robert
    1993/04/15 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 56-year-old black male plumber (victim) was electrocuted while doing plumbing repair work underneath a residential home. The victim had been hired by a general contractor to do plumbing repair work at this residence. The contractor had hired the victim on other occasions to do plumbing work for him. The victim was discovered by the contractor at ...
  • Construction laborer electrocuted by energized crane in California
    Construction laborer electrocuted by energized crane in California
    California Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (CA/FACE)  ...
    1993/04/15 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    26-year-old Hispanic male construction laborer (victim) was electrocuted when he tripped and came into contact with an energized crane. The victim was in the process of carrying a wire rope over to be used to attach a pile of plywood to the crane's hook. The commotion created by the victim behind the crane, startled the crane operator thus allowing ...
  • Insulation plant operator electrocuted while changing an electrode in California
    Insulation plant operator electrocuted while changing an electrode in California
    Fowler, John ;
    Harrison, Robert
    1993/04/15 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 26-year-old Hispanic male plant operator (victim) was electrocuted while changing an electrode on a smelter as a routine part of his job, overseeing the operations in the process of making insulation fibers for high temperature industrial furnaces. The procedure used for changing electrodes requires at least two employees, the first employee oper ...
  • Maintenance Supervisor Dies After the Personnel Platform He Was Working from Falls to the Ground Virginia FACE 9312
    Maintenance Supervisor Dies After the Personnel Platform He Was Working from Falls to the Ground - Virginia: FACE 93-12
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1993/04/15 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    The case of a 57-year-old maintenance worker who was injured (and subsequently died) when the personnel platform he was working from fell to the ground was described. On the day of the accident, he was working with two coworkers at a closed facility to replace four 1/4-inch wire ropes which controlled the operation of the overhead crane door. The w ...
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  • Timber Cutter Dies After Being Struck by a Falling Snag West Virginia FACE 9310
    Timber Cutter Dies After Being Struck by a Falling Snag - West Virginia: FACE 93-10
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1993/04/07 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    The case of a 24-year-old male timber cutter who died after receiving a blow on the head by a falling snag was described. The man was employed by a logging company that had 17 employees and logged mainly for saw timber. There was no written safety program nor safety policy. However, the foreman did provide safety talks and impromptu safety inspecti ...
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  • Tree Feller Killed by Falling Tree Limb West Virginia FACE 9305
    Tree Feller Killed by Falling Tree Limb - West Virginia: FACE 93-05
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1993/04/07 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    The case of a 58-year-old male tree feller who was struck and killed by a tree limb was investigated. At the time of the accident, he was employed by a small trucking and logging company that had been in operation for about 20 years. The victim had been working for this company for 15 years and had about 25 years of logging experience. He had begun ...
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  • Tree Feller Dies After Being Struck by Chain Saw South Carolina FACE 9302
    Tree Feller Dies After Being Struck by Chain Saw - South Carolina: FACE 93-02
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1993/04/07 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    The case of a 33-year-old male tree feller who was fatally injured after being struck by a chain saw was reviewed. The victim was working at the time of the accident for a small pulpwood and firewood logging company which had been operating for 25 years. There was no written safety program nor established safe work procedure. The victim was felling ...
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  • Construction Supervisor Falls from an Unguarded Mezzanine and Dies during a Restaurant Renovation Project in California
    Construction Supervisor Falls from an Unguarded Mezzanine and Dies during a Restaurant Renovation Project in California
    California Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (CA/FACE)  ...
    1993/04/05 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 58-year-old Asian male construction supervisor (victim) died after falling approximately 20 feet from a mezzanine (second story floor) during a restaurant renovation project. The victim was an employee of the restaurant management company and was giving instructions to the contractor just before the incident occurred. He (victim) was not wearing ...
  • Massachusetts Plater Dies Following Hydrofluoric Acid Spill Exposure During Transfer Process
    Massachusetts Plater Dies Following Hydrofluoric Acid Spill Exposure During Transfer Process
    Massachusetts Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Project (Massachusetts FACE)  ...
    1993/04/02 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 37 year-old male Massachusetts plater (victim) died of complications following exposure to hydrofluoric acid. The victim was employed by a manufacturer of production control instruments for the oil and chemical industry. The victim and a co-worker were manually transferring the acid from a fifty-five gallon drum to a three gallon pail when the in ...
  • Truck Driver Crushed Between Trailer and Loading Dock West Virginia FACE 9311
    Truck Driver Crushed Between Trailer and Loading Dock - West Virginia: FACE 93-11
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1993/03/30 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    The case of a 30-year-old male truck driver who died as a result of being trapped between a loading dock and the back of a moving tractor trailer was examined. The driver left the distribution terminal of a multistate motor freight company that employed 450 workers to flag down the driver of a tractor trailer who was backing into an unused dock at ...
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  • Owner of Logging Company Crushed by Rootwad of Windfall Tree During Bucking Operation Alaska
    Owner of Logging Company Crushed by Rootwad of Windfall Tree During Bucking Operation - Alaska
    Alaska Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (Alaska FACE)  ...
    1993/03/23 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 32-year-old male tree faller/bucker (the victim) was killed while bucking an uprooted hemlock windfall (a tree blown down by the wind) approximately 115 feet long and 26 inches in diameter at the base. The windfall's root system (rootwad) was about 3 feet deep and had a diameter of about 15 feet. The windfall was located on a mountain where the a ...
  • Trash Collector Dies After Being Crushed by Collection Truck Virginia FACE 9231
    Trash Collector Dies After Being Crushed by Collection Truck - Virginia: FACE 92-31
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1993/03/23 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 52-year-old male trash collector died after being crushed when a trash collection vehicle ran over him at the town landfill. He was employed by a small municipality. At the time of the accident the victim and two coworkers were dumping the afternoon's collections at the landfill. The driver turned and backed into the active working face. The vict ...
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  • Owner of Logging Company Crushed by Rootwad of Windfall Tree During Bucking Operation Alaska FACE 9304
    Owner of Logging Company Crushed by Rootwad of Windfall Tree During Bucking Operation - Alaska: FACE 93-04
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1993/03/23 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A tree faller/bucker was killed while bucking an uprooted hemlock felled by the wind. The victim was a 32-year-old male who was part owner of a logging companyhe was also manager of the company safety program. The root system of the felled tree was about 3 feet deep and had a diameter of about 15 feet. The felled tree was located on a mountain wher ...
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  • Three Contract Workers Die While Repairing a Sodium Hypochlorite Tank at a Wastewater Treatment Plant Virginia FACE 9308
    Three Contract Workers Die While Repairing a Sodium Hypochlorite Tank at a Wastewater Treatment Plant - Virginia: FACE 93-08
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1993/03/19 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    This case involved the death of three contract workers who were killed while repairing the interior rubber lining of an 18,000-gallon sodium-hypochlorite tank located at a municipal treatment facility for wastewater. The victims, a male foreman and two male laborers, were employed by a contractor that specialized in repairing and fabricating storag ...
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  • Municipal Waterline Inspector Dies After Entering OxygenDeficient Vault in Missouri
    Municipal Water-line Inspector Dies After Entering Oxygen-Deficient Vault in Missouri
    Ray, Thomas D. ;
    Roberts, Daryl W.
    1993/03/17 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 31-year-old municipally employed inspector for the city's water and pollution control department died as a result of the lack of oxygen in a water-main maintenance vault. At the time of the incident, the victim was working alone inspecting the recent construction of a water main. The victim climbed into the eight-foot-deep water maintenance vault ...
  • Cement Finisher Dies After Falling From the WingWall of a Highway Bridge
    Cement Finisher Dies After Falling From the Wing-Wall of a Highway Bridge
    Minnesota Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Program (MN FACE)  ...
    1993/03/16 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 45-year-old male cement finisher (victim) died of complications from injuries he received after falling from the wing-wall of a highway bridge. The project he was working on involved expansion joint removal and replacement on several bridges spanning a section of highway. The incident occurred at approximately 7:00 p.m.he was working alone and us ...
  • Male Roofer Dies After Falling From a House Roof
    Male Roofer Dies After Falling From a House Roof
    Minnesota Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Program (MN FACE)  ...
    1993/03/16 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 38-year-old male roofer (victim) was fatally injured after falling approximately 20 feet from a house roof. No personal protective equipment was being used at the time of the incident. He and a coworker were marking a 4 by 25-foot area of the roof with a chalk line for removal. This roof area had been damaged by waterit was sagging and not totall ...
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