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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 3001 - 3020 of 3531 results
  • Millworker Dies in Feed Storage Bin Virginia FACE 9234
    Millworker Dies in Feed Storage Bin - Virginia: FACE 92-34
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1993/02/11 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A millworker died of suffocation after being engulfed in soybean hulls in a grain mill storage bin. The 56-year-old male millworker was employed by a regional farm bureau. The victim was assisting in the loading of trucks with material from the grain bin compartments. At about 11 in the morning, they began loading a truck with soybean hulls and had ...
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  • Lineman Electrocuted After Falling Against Exposed Conductors in a Ground Level Transformer Box
    Lineman Electrocuted After Falling Against Exposed Conductors in a Ground Level Transformer Box
    New Jersey Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (NJ FACE)  ...
    1993/02/10 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On August 6, 1992, a 61-year-old male utility company lineman was electrocuted when he apparently fell against the energized secondary conductors in an opened ground level steel transformer box. The victim was the work leader of a three-man crew installing underground electrical service in a newly constructed housing development. NJDOH FACE investi ...
  • Roofers Helper Electrocuted When Ladder Platform Hoist Contacts a PowerlineSouth Carolina FACE 9224
    Roofer's Helper Electrocuted When Ladder Platform Hoist Contacts a Powerline-South Carolina: FACE 92-24
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1993/02/10 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 21-year-old roofer's helper was electrocuted as he and a coworker were positioning a metal ladder platform hoist which contacted a powerline. The victim was employed by a small family-owned roofing construction companythe company had no formal safety program. The victim had worked for this company for 2 years on a part time basis as a helper. At ...
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  • Warehouse Supervisor Dies After Being Caught Between a Pallet Stacking Machine and a Storage Rack Support Virginia FACE 9226
    Warehouse Supervisor Dies After Being Caught Between a Pallet Stacking Machine and a Storage Rack Support - Virginia: FACE 92-26
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1993/02/10 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    This report concerned the death of a 40-year-old male warehouse supervisor. He was employed by a cigarette manufacturer and distributor that had been in operation for 70 years. The victim had worked for this company for 17 years. For 6 of those years, he was supervisor of the warehouse. The victim, on the day of the accident, had been working the 8 ...
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  • Tree Feller Crushed by Falling Tree Virginia FACE 9238
    Tree Feller Crushed by Falling Tree - Virginia: FACE 92-38
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1993/02/09 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A tree feller was killed when a falling tree struck him from behind while he was limbing a fallen tree. The 45-year-old male tree feller was employed by a logging company that specialized in hardwood timber logging. Four fellers and a feller/breacher operator were clearing a tract of hardwood timber. The four fellers began limbing trees that had be ...
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  • Carpenter Helper Dies Following Fall from Motorized Utility Cart in Missouri
    Carpenter Helper Dies Following Fall from Motorized Utility Cart in Missouri
    Ray, Thomas D. ;
    Roberts, Daryl W.
    1993/02/08 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 19-year-old carpenter helper died after falling out of a John Deere motorized utility cart. The victim was riding in the right side passenger seat when the cart made a sudden turn to the left and the victim fell out, striking his head on the pavement. Although the cart was equipped with hand holds and warning signs identifying this hazard, they m ...
  • Sheepherder Struck by Lightning in Wyoming
    Sheepherder Struck by Lightning in Wyoming
    Wyoming Fatal Accident Circumstances and Epidemiology Project (Wyoming FACE)  ...
    1993/02/07 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 17 year old male ranch helper was struck by lightning while moving sheep between camps in a hilly area near the border of the state. The victim had left the safety of a sheepherder's wagon and was found lying under a tree, the victim of a lightning strike. He was brought to a nearby ranch house where CPR was administered. Ambulance personnel from ...
  • Bridge Painter Falls 364 Feet After Suspension Scaffold Collapses
    Bridge Painter Falls 364 Feet After Suspension Scaffold Collapses
    New Jersey Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (NJ FACE)  ...
    1993/02/03 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On September 8, 1992, a 34-year-old male bridge painter died after falling 364 feet when a supporting rope on his two-point suspension scaffold broke. The incident occurred while the victim and a co-worker were moving the scaffold along the main supporting cable of a large suspension bridge. The crew was moving the scaffold into position when one o ...
  • Electrician Electrocuted After Contacting Energized Conductor While Working from the Bucket of an Aerial Lift Truck Virginia FACE 9225
    Electrician Electrocuted After Contacting Energized Conductor While Working from the Bucket of an Aerial Lift Truck - Virginia: FACE 92-25
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1993/01/28 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 46-year-old male electrician was electrocuted when he contacted an energized powerline while working from the bucket of an aerial lift truck. He had been employed for 17 years by an electrical contracting company that employed ten workers. The company had no written safety or training programs. On the day of the accident two workers arrived at th ...
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  • Oilfield Service Machine Tip Over in Wyoming
    Oilfield Service Machine Tip Over in Wyoming
    Wyoming Fatal Accident Circumstances and Epidemiology Project (Wyoming FACE)  ...
    1993/01/17 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 26 year old Oilfield Service roustabout died from injuries received when a trenching machine tipped over onto him, crushing his chest and pushing him into an embankment where his head struck a large rock. A work crew was transporting a trenching machine up a 14% to 20% grade on a newly cut, ungravelled roadway, to place a pit liner in a new well ...
  • Apartment manager dies after falling 30 feet from ladder
    Apartment manager dies after falling 30 feet from ladder
    Wisconsin Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (Wisconsin FACE)  ...
    1993/01/10 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    The victim was a 50 year old white male who as a maintenance man/apartment manager in an apartment complex. It is believed that the victim climbed an extension ladder to put up some shutters and then climbed farther to remove a toy from the roof. According to witnesses, it was a very windy day and the aluminum extension ladder fell twice while the ...
  • Oilfield Worker Struck by Drilling Block in Wyoming
    Oilfield Worker Struck by Drilling Block in Wyoming
    Wyoming Fatal Accident Circumstances and Epidemiology Project (Wyoming FACE)  ...
    1993/01/10 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 39 year old male chain hand died when he was struck by a travelling block that had fallen from a height of 40', striking him in the pelvic area. A co-worker operating the draw works heard a "pop", and engaged both the hand brake and the electrical brake in an attempt to keep the block from falling. He yelled to the crew to clear the area. Two co- ...
  • CarpentryRoofing Foreman Dies in Fall Through Roof Opening in Massachusetts
    Carpentry/Roofing Foreman Dies in Fall Through Roof Opening in Massachusetts
    Massachusetts Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Project (Massachusetts FACE)  ...
    1993/01/08 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 21 year old male carpentry/roofing foreman died from injuries sustained in a 26 foot fall through a roof opening at a 120,000 square foot building under construction. Following installation of a 14 inch high curbing unit around a 6 foot by 12 foot square roof opening, the victim was flashing (installing a weather barrier) around the unit when the ...
  • Tree Faller Dies After Being Struck by a Falling Snag Pennsylvania FACE 9221
    Tree Faller Dies After Being Struck by a Falling Snag - Pennsylvania: FACE 92-21
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1993/01/08 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    This report concerned the death of a 46-year-old male tree faller who was struck in the back of the head by a falling snag. He was on his first actual day at work. His employer had been selectively cutting timber on a tract of land in a mountainous area. The victim felled and limbed two trees, which were attached to the skidder using logging chains ...
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  • PainterBoat Operator and Acquaintance Drowned South Carolina FACE 9223
    Painter/Boat Operator and Acquaintance Drowned - South Carolina: FACE 92-23
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1993/01/08 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    This report concerned the death of a 31-year-old male painter and boat operator and his 31-year-old male acquaintance who drowned when the work boat they were on sank. The painter/boat operator was employed by a painting company that had been hired to sandblast and paint a 700-foot-long bridge across a river. The worksite employed 26 workers. Durin ...
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  • Road Paving Crew Member Dies After Being Run Over By A Dump Truck
    Road Paving Crew Member Dies After Being Run Over By A Dump Truck
    Minnesota Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Program (MN FACE)  ...
    1993/01/05 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 27-year-old male member of a road paving crew (victim) died of injuries he received as a result of being run over by a dump truck. The victim, a truck driver, was positioned on the outside of his dump truck on the passenger side between the cab and the rear tandem wheelsit is unknown whether he was lying under the truck or whether he was squattin ...
  • A 20 year old farmer dies after entering a silo recently filled with haylage
    A 20 year old farmer dies after entering a silo recently filled with haylage.
    Wisconsin Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (Wisconsin FACE)  ...
    1993/01/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 20 year old white male college student who worked and lived on the family farm, died while working for a neighbor filling silo. This was the worker's fourth day at work, the farm had been in operation for 29 years. A load of fresh chopped haylage had been blown into the silo the night before the incident. The victim and the farm owner spent the m ...
  • Occupational electrocutions investigation and prevention
    Occupational electrocutions: investigation and prevention.
    Casini, Virgil J.
    1993/01/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    Investigating and preventing occupational electrocutions were discussed. Epidemiological studies have shown that approximately 67% of all electrocutions are work related. The NIOSH National Traumatic Occupational Fatality database indicates that approximately 7% of the nearly 6500 work related traumatic fatalities that occur annually are electrocut ...
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  • Journeyman Ironworker Dies Following a TwentyTwo FeetSix Inch Fall from a Steel Structure in Missouri
    Journeyman Ironworker Dies Following a Twenty-Two Feet-Six Inch Fall from a Steel Structure in Missouri
    Hooper, Terry L. ;
    Ray, Thomas D.
    1992/12/27 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 51-year-old journeyman ironworker died after falling twenty-two feet-six inches from an eight inch-wide steel girder at a discount store construction site. Before the incident, the victim was welding steel bar joists to steel girders. The fall was unwitnessed, however, it is believed that the victim was moving to weld the next bar joist and pulle ...
  • Line Foreman Electrocuted While Performing Routine Maintenance at a Transformer Station in Missouri
    Line Foreman Electrocuted While Performing Routine Maintenance at a Transformer Station in Missouri
    Hooper, Terry L. ;
    Ray, Thomas D.
    1992/12/26 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 46-year-old municipally employed lineman was electrocuted while performing routine maintenance at a transformer station. At the time of the incident the victim and contractor were performing maintenance on an oil disconnect switch. The victim was standing on a six foot fiberglass stepladder and was leaning against the structure (providing a path ...
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