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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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  • Powerline Worker Electrocuted While Performing Maintenance on Overhead Powerline Alaska FACE 9212
    Powerline Worker Electrocuted While Performing Maintenance on Overhead Powerline - Alaska: FACE 92-12
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1992/09/16 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    The case of a 37-year-old male electric utility powerline worker who was electrocuted while performing maintenance on a 7200-volt overhead powerline was described. He was employed by a rural electric utility company with 52 employees. He had no previous powerline work experience or training and had been working for the company for 6 weeks. He was i ...
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  • Tree TrimmingRemoval Worker Electrocuted after Making Indirect Contact With a 8000 Volt Overhead Power Line
    Tree Trimming/Removal Worker Electrocuted after Making Indirect Contact With a 8000 Volt Overhead Power Line
    Minnesota Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Program (MN FACE)  ...
    1992/09/15 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 44-year-old female (victim) tree trimming/removal worker was electrocuted when she made indirect contact with a 8000V overhead power line. The incident occurred as a tree was being prepared for removal from beneath overhead primary (8000V) and secondary (240V) power lines at a private residence. The secondary line was 6 feet below the primary lin ...
  • Landscape Laborer Dies After Being Struck By The Bucket Of A Case Skid Steer Loader
    Landscape Laborer Dies After Being Struck By The Bucket Of A Case Skid Steer Loader
    Minnesota Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Program (MN FACE)  ...
    1992/09/15 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 16-year-old male (victim) landscape laborer died as a result of traumatic injuries received after being struck by the bucket of a Case skid steer loader. Three landscaping workers were pulling up a silt fence from around a drainage pond in a housing area under development. A slightly sloping bank surrounded the pond, and a Case skid steer loader ...
  • Carpenter Dies from Falling Off a Porch Roof of a Private Home
    Carpenter Dies from Falling Off a Porch Roof of a Private Home
    Minnesota Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Program (MN FACE)  ...
    1992/09/15 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 20-year-old male carpenter (victim) died as a result of head injuries ten days after falling off a porch roof of a private home. The roof was 12 feet from the ground to the eaves with a 4 to 12 pitch (a 4" rise to every 12" run). He was applying shingles to the roof and was two rows from completion. The incident occurred in the morning on a dry s ...
  • Machine Operator Crushed to Death After Falling Into a Plastic Pellet Blender
    Machine Operator Crushed to Death After Falling Into a Plastic Pellet Blender
    New Jersey Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (NJ FACE)  ...
    1992/09/13 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On February 28, 1992, a 28-year-old male machine operator was crushed to death after he fell into a large blending machine that mixed plastic pellets. The incident occurred as the victim was apparently walking near the edge of the open blender when he slipped and fell into the operating machine. NJDOH FACE investigators concluded that, in order to ...
  • General laborer at a feed mill dies after presumed fall followed by vehicle run over
    General laborer at a feed mill dies after presumed fall followed by vehicle run over
    Wisconsin Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (Wisconsin FACE)  ...
    1992/09/03 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    Twenty year old white male worker, 8 months on the job was found on the cement crushed by the wheels of a semi. The semi driver had his truck weighed then filled with corn. With the truck running, the driver got out and secured his tarp over the grain, then jumped into the cab and pulled off the scale. It is surmised that the worker had fallen whil ...
  • Commercial Fisherman Presumed Drowned After Fishing Vessel CapsizedAlaska State report
    Commercial Fisherman Presumed Drowned After Fishing Vessel Capsized--Alaska [State report]
    Alaska Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (Alaska FACE)  ...
    1992/09/03 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    The case of a 30-year-old commercial fisherman who presumably drowned after the vessel on which he was working capsized was reviewed. The vessel and the three men on board had been crabbing for 9 days. The victim was a shareholding crewman who had fished commercially for over 6 years. The victim pivoted the boom of the deck crane to port in an effo ...
  • Commercial Fisherman Presumed Drowned After Fishing Vessel Capsized Alaska FACE 9214
    Commercial Fisherman Presumed Drowned After Fishing Vessel Capsized - Alaska: FACE 92-14
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1992/09/03 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    The case of a 30-year-old commercial fisherman who presumably drowned after the vessel on which he was working capsized was reviewed. The vessel and the three men on board had been crabbing for 9 days. The victim was a shareholding crewman who had fished commercially for over 6 years. The victim pivoted the boom of the deck crane to port in an effo ...
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  • PlumberConstruction Worker Electrocuted by Indirect Contact with 220V Conductor
    Plumber/Construction Worker Electrocuted by Indirect Contact with 220V Conductor
    Minnesota Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Program (MN FACE)  ...
    1992/09/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 44-year-old male plumber/construction worker (victim) died when a lag-bolt he was screwing into a wooden house foundation made contact with one side of an indoor 220V clothes dryer line (110VAC) and he was electrocuted. Due to heavy spring rains, the completely constructed, finished house had sunk approximately three inches into fine, silty soil. ...
  • Tree FallerBucker Crushed Between Two Logs While Bucking a Fallen Tree Alaska FACE 9210
    Tree Faller/Bucker Crushed Between Two Logs While Bucking a Fallen Tree - Alaska: FACE 92-10
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1992/09/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 44-year-old male tree faller/bucker (the victim) was felling and bucking (cutting into specified lengths) timber on a mountainside with a 67 percent slope. The victim felled a hemlock tree which came to rest across another hemlock that he had previously felled. Both logs were lying almost parallel with the slope contour. The victim removed the tr ...
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  • Driller and Service Rig Helper Die in Fracturing Tank at Gas Well Site Pennsylvania FACE 9217
    Driller and Service Rig Helper Die in Fracturing Tank at Gas Well Site - Pennsylvania: FACE 92-17
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1992/08/26 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 39-year-old male driller and a 28-year-old male service rig helper died after entering a fracturing tank at a well within a natural gas storage field in Pennsylvania. They were a team assigned to monitor the fluid level and wellhead pressure at the well during the final stages of a hydraulic fracturing operation. On the evening of the incident, t ...
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  • Elevator ServiceRepair Helper Electrocuted in Massachusetts
    Elevator Service/Repair Helper Electrocuted in Massachusetts
    Massachusetts Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Project (Massachusetts FACE)  ...
    1992/08/25 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 35 year old male elevator service/repair helper (victim) was electrocuted while installing a new electrical component on a commercial elevator car. During the course of this installation, the victim who was working unobserved, came into contact with an energized 110 volt electrical circuit supplying power to an operational single socket porcelain ...
  • Farmer fell off wagon tongue and was run over by cornfilled wagon
    Farmer fell off wagon tongue and was run over by corn-filled wagon
    Wisconsin Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (Wisconsin FACE)  ...
    1992/08/20 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 40 year old white female farm worker fell and was run over while helping her husband switch corn wagons. Conditions were dry, it was sunny and late afternoon when the incident occurred. The two had met on a county trunk road and attempted to switch wagons on a grade on the side of the roadway (she hooks the loaded corn wagon to her pickup truck a ...
  • Overhead Door Mechanic Dies After Falling 16 Feet From A Ladder
    Overhead Door Mechanic Dies After Falling 16 Feet From A Ladder
    New Jersey Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (NJ FACE)  ...
    1992/08/18 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On April 1, 1992, a 30-year-old male overhead door mechanic was critically injured while repairing an overhead door in an automotive service garage. The incident occurred while the victim was working on a ladder to service the torsion spring assembly that counterbalanced the weight of the door. As he was working on the bolts that attached the cente ...
  • LaborerTender Dies In Fall From Scaffolding In Massachusetts
    Laborer/Tender Dies In Fall From Scaffolding In Massachusetts
    Massachusetts Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Project (Massachusetts FACE)  ...
    1992/08/12 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On February 24, 1992, a 61 year old, male laborer/tender was fatally injured when he fell 20 to 25 feet from scaffolding on a Massachusetts construction site. The victim had finished his day's work aiding in the application of insulation and decorative plaster to the exterior facade of a building under renovation, when he began his descent down the ...
  • Roofer Dies in 16Foot Fall From Residential Roof Alaska
    Roofer Dies in 16-Foot Fall From Residential Roof - Alaska
    Alaska Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (Alaska FACE)  ...
    1992/08/12 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 31-year-old male journeyman roofer (the victim) sustained severe head injuries and died as a result of a 16-foot fall from the roof of a two-story single-family dwelling. The victim was correcting a cosmetic error in the alignment of the shingle tabs of roofing shingles installed 2 weeks earlier. He fell (unobserved) from the second-story roof of ...
  • Roofer Dies in 16Foot Fall from Residential Roof Alaska FACE 9208
    Roofer Dies in 16-Foot Fall from Residential Roof - Alaska: FACE 92-08
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    1992/08/12 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    The case of a roofer who died after sustaining a 16-foot fall from the pitched roof of a two-story single-family dwelling was reported. The 32-year-old journeyman roofer was employed by a roofing contractor with five employees. His task was to correct a cosmetic error in the alignment of the shingle tabs of roofing shingles which had been installed ...
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  • Road maintenance worker died 15 months after falling backwards off a dump truck onto pavement
    Road maintenance worker died 15 months after falling backwards off a dump truck onto pavement
    Wisconsin Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (Wisconsin FACE)  ...
    1992/08/10 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    This 44 year old white male worked as part of a road crew doing repairs for 5 years. While loading a large slab of cement into a dump truck, the victim was pinned against the top side of the dump truck box by the end loader bucket. When another worker removed the end loader bucket to release the victim, he fell backwards off the truck onto the pave ...
  • Iron Worker Dies After Falling 20 Feet From Structural Steel
    Iron Worker Dies After Falling 20 Feet From Structural Steel
    New Jersey Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (NJ FACE)  ...
    1992/07/09 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On March 9, 1992, a 49-year-old male iron worker was fatally injured after falling from the structural steel framework of a building under construction. The incident occurred while the victim was preparing to install steel decking sheets to the peak of a roof. The victim had just climbed up to a stack of steel decking that was resting between two s ...
  • Tree FallerBucker Crushed Between Two Logs While Bucking a Fallen Tree Alaska
    Tree Faller/Bucker Crushed Between Two Logs While Bucking a Fallen Tree - Alaska
    Alaska Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (Alaska FACE)  ...
    1992/07/08 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 44-year-old male tree faller/bucker (the victim) was felling and bucking (cutting into specified lengths) timber on a mountainside with a 67 percent slope. The victim felled a hemlock tree which came to rest across another hemlock that he had previously felled. Both logs were lying almost parallel with the slope contour. The victim removed the tr ...
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