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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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  • Commercial Fisherman Drowned After Fishing Vessel Capsized Alaska State report
    Commercial Fisherman Drowned After Fishing Vessel Capsized - Alaska [State report]
    Alaska Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (Alaska FACE)  ...
    1993/03/10 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 16-year-old male commercial fisherman (the victim) became trapped and drowned after the commercial fishing vessel he was on capsized while under tow. The vessel (a bowpicker) had been disabled and anchored for 11 hours, with only the skipper and the victim on board. On the day of the incident, a tender came to tow the vessel back to port for repa ...
  • Commercial Fisherman Drowned After Fishing Vessel Capsized Alaska FACE 9232
    Commercial Fisherman Drowned After Fishing Vessel Capsized - Alaska: FACE 92-32
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1993/03/10 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A commercial fisherman was trapped and drowned after the commercial fishing vessel he was on capsized while under tow. The 16-year-old male fisherman was a shareholding crewman aboard a 32-foot bowpicker. He had 5 weeks of experience on the vessel and had fished commercially with his family for several years. The vessel had become disabled and was ...
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  • Truck Driver Killed when Struck by Log that Rolled off Truck During Loading Operation Alaska
    Truck Driver Killed when Struck by Log that Rolled off Truck During Loading Operation - Alaska
    Alaska Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (Alaska FACE)  ...
    1993/03/09 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 49-year-old male truck driver (the victim) was preparing to secure a load of logs - approximately 40 feet long and averaging 18 inches in diameter - on his truck with a binder (chain). The last logs to be loaded lay above the top of the 4-foot-high stakes located at each corner of the trailer. As the shovel-loader placed the last log on the trail ...
  • Farm Owner and Son Asphyxiated in Manure Waste Pit Minnesota FACE 9229
    Farm Owner and Son Asphyxiated in Manure Waste Pit - Minnesota: FACE 92-29
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1993/03/09 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    After entering one of a pair of adjacent 8-foot-deep manure waste pits connected by a tunnel, a 43-year-old dairy farm owner and his 23 year old son died from asphyxiation. On the day of the accident, the owner apparently entered the pit when the manure from the second pit failed to flow through the tunnel. The owner removed the steel grate coverin ...
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  • Truck Driver Killed When Struck by Log That Rolled off Truck During Loading Operation Alaska FACE 9303
    Truck Driver Killed When Struck by Log That Rolled off Truck During Loading Operation - Alaska: FACE 93-03
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1993/03/09 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A truck driver was killed when the top log on one side of a trailer shifted and rolled off the trailer, striking him and fatally crushing his head and chest. The 49-year-old male truck driver was employed by a logging company. On the day of the accident, the driver began working with a log shovel/loader, performing their usual task of loading, and ...
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  • Operator Dies in OxygenDeficient Compartment of IceMaking Barge Alaska
    Operator Dies in Oxygen-Deficient Compartment of Ice-Making Barge - Alaska
    Bledsoe, Gary ;
    Middaugh, John
    1993/03/08 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On September 7, 1992, a 59-year-old, male barge operator (the victim) was asphyxiated as a result of entering the oxygen-deficient atmosphere in a compartment of a stationary barge used in ice-making operations. The victim was inspecting the condition of a compartment (which had been sealed for approximately one year) because he believed the barge ...
  • Line Mechanic Dies After Falling from Aerial Bucket Truck Virginia FACE 9235
    Line Mechanic Dies After Falling from Aerial Bucket Truck - Virginia: FACE 92-35
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1993/03/08 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A line mechanic died after falling 37 feet from the bucket of an aerial lift truck after a winch line failed. The 35-year-old male line mechanic was employed by an electrical utility company. At the time of the accident, he and a coworker had been assigned to remove a broken tree limb from a residential powerline. The victim entered the lift truck ...
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  • Equipment Operator Struck and Killed by Road Grader Virginia FACE 9240
    Equipment Operator Struck and Killed by Road Grader - Virginia: FACE 92-40
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1993/03/08 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    This report concerned the death of a 52-year-old male equipment operator who died after falling from and being struck and run over by a road grader. The victim and his son had begun work at a private residence to grade and pave an 800-foot-long driveway. They had worked at the site for 2 and a half days. On the day of the accident, the victim worke ...
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  • Painter Electrocuted When Metal Ladder Contacts a Powerline Virginia FACE 9227
    Painter Electrocuted When Metal Ladder Contacts a Powerline - Virginia: FACE 92-27
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1993/03/05 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A painter was electrocuted when the metal ladder he was moving contacted an overhead powerline. The 21-year-old male painter had been employed for 2 days by a small general contracting company. The company had been contracted to repaint a two-story wooden private residence. The day of the accident was his second day of employment. A 40-foot aluminu ...
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  • Maintenance Man Dies After Being Drawn into 17InchDiameter Positive Pressure Intake Pipe Virginia FACE 9239
    Maintenance Man Dies After Being Drawn into 17½-Inch-Diameter Positive Pressure Intake Pipe - Virginia: FACE 92-39
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1993/03/04 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    The case of a 38-year-old maintenance man who died after being sucked into a positive pressure vacuum pipe at a paper processing facility was examined. The worker was attempting, with the help of two coworkers, to replace a malfunctioning blower on a vacuum line with a pressure of 3,740 pounds per square inch. Wood chips were transported in the vac ...
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  • Roofer Dies After Being Struck by a Falling Counterweight Virginia FACE 9237
    Roofer Dies After Being Struck by a Falling Counterweight - Virginia: FACE 92-37
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1993/03/04 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A roofer was killed when he was struck on the head by a falling 94-pound counterweight. The 29-year-old roofer was employed by a roofing contractor. A crew of six roofers had been replacing a built-up asphalt roof. On their final day on the jobsite the workers were lowering the unused materials and equipment to the ground. Four worked on the ground ...
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  • Police Officer Drowns After Being Overcome by Hydrogen Sulfide While Attempting Rescue of Construction Worker
    Police Officer Drowns After Being Overcome by Hydrogen Sulfide While Attempting Rescue of Construction Worker
    New Jersey Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (NJ FACE)  ...
    1993/02/27 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On August 26, 1992, a 30-year-old male police officer drowned after being overcome by hydrogen sulfide gas when he attempted to rescue a construction worker who had been overcome by the gas in a 27-foot-deep excavation. Hydrogen sulfide was released when construction company workers drove a piling into marshy ground near the ocean. New Jersey FACE ...
  • Hog Farm CoOwner and Employee Die of Hydrogen Sulfide Poisoning in Manure Pit Minnesota FACE 9228
    Hog Farm Co-Owner and Employee Die of Hydrogen Sulfide Poisoning in Manure Pit - Minnesota: FACE 92-28
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1993/02/25 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    An incident was described in which two workers at a hog farm died of hydrogen-sulfide (7783064) poisoning in a manure pit. A 27-year-old male hog farm employee died as a result of hydrogen-sulfide poisoning when he entered a manure waste pit to extract a pump. The 46-year-old co-owner of the farm (the first victim's uncle) died when he entered the ...
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  • Worker Electrocuted While Servicing an Energized Air Conditioning Unit
    Worker Electrocuted While Servicing an Energized Air Conditioning Unit
    New Jersey Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (NJ FACE)  ...
    1993/02/21 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On July 14, 1992, a 42-year-old male heating and air conditioning company worker was electrocuted while he serviced an energized central air conditioning unit. NJDOH FACE investigators concluded that, in order to prevent similar incidents in the future, the following safety guidelines should be followed: 1. Employers must ensure that workers are th ...
  • Roofing Installer Dies After 16Foot Fall from a Suspended Runway in Missouri
    Roofing Installer Dies After 16-Foot Fall from a Suspended Runway in Missouri
    Ray, Thomas D. ;
    Roberts, Daryl W.
    1993/02/17 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 33-year-old roofing installer died following a 16-foot fall from a suspended runway. The runway was suspended between the raised scissors bed of a utility truck and a roof of a housing unit. Immediately before the incident, the victim was carrying four-by-eight sheets of used plywood from the housing unit and stacking them on the truck bed. Thoug ...
  • Production Worker Dies Following Contact with 220 Volts of Electricity in Missouri
    Production Worker Dies Following Contact with 220 Volts of Electricity in Missouri
    Hooper, Terry L. ;
    Ray, Thomas D.
    1993/02/13 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 20-year-old female production worker at a plastic injection molding company died after coming in contact with 220 volt alternating current (ac) electricity. At the time of the incident the employee was operating a plastic grinding machine. The separate on and off buttons were located inside a metal switch box on the front of the machine. The cove ...
  • Assistant machine operator was electrocuted when he handled a compressed air nozzle and screw driver near or in a power cord carrying 480 volts
    Assistant machine operator was electrocuted when he handled a compressed air nozzle and screw driver near or in a power cord carrying 480 volts
    Wisconsin Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (Wisconsin FACE)  ...
    1993/02/12 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 21 year old white male machine operator was electrocuted. When he was last seen, he was using compressed air near an energized 440 volt Hubbell aluminum cast plug. The machine the worker had been working on, a hoist, had stopped functioning earlier in the day. At that time the supervisor was seen using compressed air to blow on the female end of ...
  • Service Technician Working For An Electronic Protection Company Dies After 20 Foot Fall From An Aluminum Ladder
    Service Technician Working For An Electronic Protection Company Dies After 20 Foot Fall From An Aluminum Ladder
    Wisconsin Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (Wisconsin FACE)  ...
    1993/02/12 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 24 year old white male service worker fell 20 feet sideways onto a concrete floor from an aluminum ladder placed against a steel I-beam. The worker was responding to a complaint regarding a faulty alarm system. Witnesses, not co-workers, held the ladder while the worker ascended the ladder to check a heat sensing monitor placed on the ceiling of ...
  • Apprentice Lineman Electrocuted While Setting Utility Pole Virginia FACE 9230
    Apprentice Lineman Electrocuted While Setting Utility Pole - Virginia: FACE 92-30
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1993/02/12 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 34-year-old male apprentice lineman engaged in setting a wooden utility pole was electrocuted. The victim was employed by an electrical contracting corporation employing 500 workers, 50 of whom were apprentice linemen. The victim had about 1.5 years of experience. The victim was assisting in setting up a wooden utility pole which had been raised ...
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  • Zoo Maintenance Worker Dies After a 400Pound Cage Falls on Him
    Zoo Maintenance Worker Dies After a 400-Pound Cage Falls on Him
    Minnesota Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Program (MN FACE)  ...
    1993/02/11 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 42-year-old zoo maintenance worker (victim) was fatally injured when a 400-pound bird cage assembly, mounted on a 60-foot pole, free-fell and hit him as he was installing an electrical limit switch near the bottom of the pole. The victim was working alone, using no personal protective equipment, and had elevated the cage assembly to an unknown he ...
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