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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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  • Police Officer Dies in 41Foot Fall from Roof of Fire Training Tower Alaska
    Police Officer Dies in 41-Foot Fall from Roof of Fire Training Tower - Alaska
    Bledsoe, Gary ;
    Middaugh, John
    1992/11/07 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On May 3, 1992, a 39-year-old, male police officer (the victim) sustained severe head injuries as a result of a fall of 41 feet from the roof of a four-story fire training tower. He died as a result of these injuries on May 4, 1992. The victim was participating in a mountain rescue training exercise called a "vertical lower" This maneuver involved ...
  • Electrical Project Supervisor Dies After Contacting an Energized Conductor South Carolina FACE 9220
    Electrical Project Supervisor Dies After Contacting an Energized Conductor - South Carolina: FACE 92-20
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1992/11/05 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    The case of a 46-year-old male electrical project supervisor who died when he contacted an energized conductor inside a control panel was examined. He was employed by an industrial electrical contracting company. The company had been hired by a plastic bottle packaging facility to install control cabinets, conduit, wiring, and solid-state compresso ...
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  • Turkey Farmer Dies from Electrocution
    Turkey Farmer Dies from Electrocution
    Minnesota Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Program (MN FACE)  ...
    1992/10/29 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 72-year-old male turkey farmer (victim) died as a result of electrocution when he came into contact with energized turkey feeder equipment. He was working alone at the time of the incident in a 300-foot-long barn housing 3,000 to 4,000 birds. According to police and coroner reports, the equipment had been malfunctioning and power to it had been d ...
  • A farm owneroperator in Colorado died of suffocation when his clothing became entangled in the machinery he was attempting to adjust
    A farm owner/operator in Colorado died of suffocation when his clothing became entangled in the machinery he was attempting to adjust.
    McKenzie, Lyle E.
    1992/10/28 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    The 42-year-old farmer was fatally injured when he attempted to adjust the spacing on the cultivator he was using. The deceased had stopped the forward motion of the tractor but left the tractor run. He then raised the cultivator in order to adjust the hilling wings. The cultivator was equipped with a hydraulic powered weeder bar that functioned of ...
  • Massachusetts Lumber CompanySawmill Laborer Dies Following Strike in the Head
    Massachusetts Lumber Company/Sawmill Laborer Dies Following Strike in the Head
    Massachusetts Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Project (Massachusetts FACE)  ...
    1992/10/22 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 30 year old male Massachusetts lumber company/sawmill laborer died on April 29th, 1992, approximately one month after being struck in the head during routine maintenance operations. The victim was sweeping sawdust and waste wood debris from the floor of a sawmill chipper room when he struck his head on an operating chipper machine shaker table. S ...
  • Ranch Owner Run Over by Tractor in Wyoming
    Ranch Owner Run Over by Tractor in Wyoming
    Wyoming Fatal Accident Circumstances and Epidemiology Project (Wyoming FACE)  ...
    1992/10/21 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    An 87 year old male ranch owner died in the emergency room of an out of state hospital after having been run over by a tractor in an preventable early morning incident at a rural ranch near the border of the state. The victim had been riding to the loading site with a hired hand, and was opening and closing gates while the hired hand drove through ...
  • Highway Paving Crew Member Dies After Being Run Over By a Rear End Dump Truck
    Highway Paving Crew Member Dies After Being Run Over By a Rear End Dump Truck
    Minnesota Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Program (MN FACE)  ...
    1992/10/07 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 45-year-old member of a highway paving crew (victim) died as a result of being run over by a rear end dump truck that was backing up during truck repositioning maneuvers on a section of highway under construction. The victim was asked to instruct a line of seven truck drivers to back up to a new location. He proceeded to the rear truck (Truck 1) ...
  • Ironworker Dies Following an 18foot Fall From Structural Steel Framework Alaska
    Ironworker Dies Following an 18-foot Fall From Structural Steel Framework - Alaska
    Alaska Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (Alaska FACE)  ...
    1992/10/03 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 41-year-old male ironworker (the victim) died after falling from a structural steel framework to a concrete floor during the construction of an automobile repair shop. The victim and two other ironworkers (co-workers) were assembling the steel frame "skeleton" (measuring 50 feet wide, 86 feet long and 18 feet high at the roof edge) of the structu ...
  • Ironworker Dies Following an 18Foot Fall from Structural Steel Framework Alaska FACE 9211
    Ironworker Dies Following an 18-Foot Fall from Structural Steel Framework - Alaska: FACE 92-11
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1992/10/03 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    The case of a 41-year-old male ironworker who died following a fall from a steel framework during the construction of an automobile repair shop in Alaska was described. Three ironworkers had been contracted by the shop owner to construct a prefabricated structural steel building. Just prior to the accident the victim was walking on top of an unsecu ...
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  • Utility Company Work Leader Electrocuted While Replacing a Lightning Arrester on a Utility Pole
    Utility Company Work Leader Electrocuted While Replacing a Lightning Arrester on a Utility Pole
    New Jersey Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (NJ FACE)  ...
    1992/10/02 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On May 17, 1992, a 43-year-old male utility company work leader died after he contacted 7,200 volts of electricity while replacing a lightning arrester on a utility pole. The victim and two co-workers had been assigned to replace a step-down transformer and two lightning arresters that had been damaged by lightning. The victim was working in the bu ...
  • Electrician Electrocuted After Contacting 277 Volts While Installing An Overhead Light Fixture
    Electrician Electrocuted After Contacting 277 Volts While Installing An Overhead Light Fixture
    New Jersey Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (NJ FACE)  ...
    1992/10/02 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On March 16, 1992, a 60-year-old male journeyman electrician was electrocuted after he contacted an energized electrical cable carrying 277 volts. The incident occurred in an office building which was being renovated to expand the office space. As he was working from a wooden ladder to install two new fluorescent lighting fixtures in the ceiling, t ...
  • Window Washer Dies After Falling Off of Hydraulic Lift
    Window Washer Dies After Falling Off of Hydraulic Lift
    Minnesota Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Program (MN FACE)  ...
    1992/09/29 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 58-year-old male window washer (victim) died when the hydraulic lift he was using tipped over backwards, and he fell approximately 40 feet to a marble floor below. MN FACE investigators determined that error in equipment set-up resulted in instability of the lift. There were many warnings on the lift about failure of proper set-up possibly leadin ...
  • Construction foreman dies after falling 3 feet from a ladder to a concrete floor
    Construction foreman dies after falling 3 feet from a ladder to a concrete floor
    Wisconsin Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (Wisconsin FACE)  ...
    1992/09/24 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 70 year old white male had worked as construction foreman building a church for 6 months when he fell 3 feet from a ladder. The worker was descending the ladder when he may have lost his balance and fell to the concrete floor. Conditions were dry. There was adequate artificial lighting. He was transported immediately to a regional hospital where ...
  • Highway Construction Flagman Dies after Being Struck by a Pickup Truck
    Highway Construction Flagman Dies after Being Struck by a Pickup Truck
    Minnesota Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Program (MN FACE)  ...
    1992/09/24 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    An 18-year-old male (victim) highway construction flagman died as a result of traumatic injuries received after being struck by a pickup truck. A highway crew was milling the surface of a bridge approach area in preparation for re-surfacing. The work was being done at night during minimum traffic hours. The victim, outfitted in full reflective vest ...
  • Pressure Tester Struck by Bull Plug in Wyoming
    Pressure Tester Struck by Bull Plug in Wyoming
    Wyoming Fatal Accident Circumstances and Epidemiology Project (Wyoming FACE)  ...
    1992/09/23 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 30 year old male oilfield pressure tester died at the scene of an oil rig where he was conducting a pressure test when a bull-plug dislodged from a flow-back manifold, striking the victim in the head. The victim was testing well pressure, and was in the process of releasing pressure from the pressure manifold into the burn pit when the cap came l ...
  • Owner of Heavy Equipment Maintenance Business Dies After Being Struck by an Exploding Split Rim of a Test Roller Tire
    Owner of Heavy Equipment Maintenance Business Dies After Being Struck by an Exploding Split Rim of a Test Roller Tire
    Minnesota Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Program (MN FACE)  ...
    1992/09/23 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 32-year-old male owner of a heavy equipment maintenance business (victim) died as a result of injuries he received when the split rim of a test roller's tire exploded as he attempted to remove the wheel. He was struck by the exploding unit and thrown approximately 45 feet. He had no training or experience with this type of split rim tire and used ...
  • Storeroom Manager Dies From Complications Arising After a Fall on a Level Surface
    Storeroom Manager Dies From Complications Arising After a Fall on a Level Surface
    Minnesota Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Program (MN FACE)  ...
    1992/09/23 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 71-year-old male storeroom manager (victim) died as a result of complications arising from a fall on a level surface approximately one month after the incident. The fall occurred outside during late winter on a concrete and asphalt surface near gas pumps. There was melting ice and snow present in the vicinity of the pumps on the day of the fall. ...
  • Farmworker Forced into Conveyer Mechanism
    Farmworker Forced into Conveyer Mechanism
    Wyoming Fatal Accident Circumstances and Epidemiology Project (Wyoming FACE)  ...
    1992/09/18 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 36 year old male farm laborer died at the scene of a feedlot operation from preventable injuries incurred while operating a chain-drag elevator to transport hay cubes from a truck to a grinder. The victim was operating a truck mechanism designed to feed hay cubes from the truck into the hopper of a 60'-65' elevator, and the conveyor mechanism des ...
  • Explosives Representative HeadOn Crash in Wyoming
    Explosives Representative Head-On Crash in Wyoming
    Wyoming Fatal Accident Circumstances and Epidemiology Project (Wyoming FACE)  ...
    1992/09/16 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 31 year old male customer service representative of an explosives manufacturing firm died in a hospital emergency room approximately 2 hours after having been involved in a preventable night time left-frontal traffic crash with an unloaded dump truck on a two lane downgrade curve in a hilly rural setting. The victim was driving a late model Ameri ...
  • Powerline Worker Electrocuted While Performing Maintenance on Overhead Powerline Alaska
    Powerline Worker Electrocuted While Performing Maintenance on Overhead Powerline - Alaska
    Alaska Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (Alaska FACE)  ...
    1992/09/16 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 37-year-old male electric utility powerline worker (the victim) was electrocuted while performing maintenance on a 7200-volt overhead powerline. The victim had been assigned by the electric utility to investigate and repair a problem involving intermittent power outages in a rural community. Two weeks before the incident, the victim isolated and ...
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