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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 3361 - 3380 of 3531 results
  • TractorTrailer Repairman Dies While Welding Interior Wall of a Tanker in Indiana FACE 8750
    Tractor-Trailer Repairman Dies While Welding Interior Wall of a Tanker in Indiana: FACE 87-50
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    1987/07/21 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 34 year old tractor trailer repairman was killed in an explosion during welding inside a tanker compartment. The victim entered an 8500 gallon cargo tank to weld a leak. The employer was a family firm with nine employees, six of them trailer repairmen. Specific safety regulations for confined spaces were in place at the time of the accident which ...
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  • Farmer Dies in Indiana FACE 8749
    Farmer Dies in Indiana: FACE 87-49
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    1987/07/20 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    The owner of a 100 acre grain farm was engulfed in shelled corn inside a 12,000 bushel capacity grain storage bin and suffocated. He was well acquainted with the proper safety procedures to be used when entering a storage bin. The farmer was diabetic and had been having dizzy spells. His purpose at the bin that day was to remove part of the 8,000 b ...
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  • An 18YearOld Groundman Electrocuted in North Carolina FACE 8753
    An 18-Year-Old Groundman Electrocuted in North Carolina: FACE 87-53
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    1987/07/17 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A groundman was electrocuted when an energized power line broke, contacting a pole trailer onto which the victim was loading a pole. The employer had a comprehensive safety program but relied heavily upon on the job training. A five man crew had worked to replace an electric pole along a rural highway. The new pole had been installed and four condu ...
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  • Electrician Electrocuted in North Carolina FACE 8755
    Electrician Electrocuted in North Carolina: FACE 87-55
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    1987/07/17 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 33 year old journeyman electrician suffered electrocution while repairing a fluorescent light fixture over a kitchen sink. While the company for which the man worked had adopted a safety program, it was not implemented on a daily basis. The victim and a helper were repairing several electrical malfunctions in a single family residence. The electr ...
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  • Truck Driver Electrocuted in North Carolina FACE 8754
    Truck Driver Electrocuted in North Carolina: FACE 87-54
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    1987/07/16 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 32 year old truck driver was electrocuted when he raised the bed of the dump truck he was operating, contacting a 12 kilovolt (kV) energized power line. The truck was a 60,000 pound self propelled hydraulic trailer. The worker was attempting to deliver ten loads of lime to a farm supply company. The company for which he worked was small, with no ...
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  • 32YearOld Electrician Electrocuted in Georgia FACE 8743
    32-Year-Old Electrician Electrocuted in Georgia: FACE 87-43
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    1987/07/08 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    While attempting to replace a socket on an energized fluorescent light fixture, a journeyman electrician was electrocuted. The employee was part of a 3000 person workforce at an automotive assembly facility with an extensive safety and health program. Two journeymen electricians were to replace bulbs and make needed repairs to fluorescent light fix ...
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  • Worker Dies Inside Filtration Tank in Michigan FACE 8747
    Worker Dies Inside Filtration Tank in Michigan: FACE 87-47
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    1987/07/07 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 55 year old city worker with 25 years experience died while checking the inside of an empty, open top concrete filtration tank at a sewage treatment facility. The tank was 15 feet wide by 24 feet long and 12 feet deep. The facility had regular safety procedures, safety education for employees, and necessary testing equipment for confined space at ...
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  • Two Workers a Carpenter and a Laborer Electrocuted in South Carolina FACE 8748
    Two Workers (a Carpenter and a Laborer) Electrocuted in South Carolina: FACE 87-48
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    1987/07/06 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    Several workers were moving scaffolding when it contacted a 13,750 volt overhead power line, killing two of the workers and injuring five others. The victims worked for a general contractor with no written safety policy or established safety program. On the job training was provided, and safety was viewed as a matter of common sense. Each section o ...
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  • One Dead One Near Miss in Sewer in Kentucky FACE 8745
    One Dead, One Near Miss in Sewer in Kentucky: FACE 87-45
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    1987/06/30 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    Two laborers were overcome, one fatally, after entering a 15 foot deep sewer manhole in which there was an oxygen deficient atmosphere. The surviving worker revived and was treated and released from hospital. Their purpose for entering the sewer was to clean out a blockage in a sewer manhole adjacent to a sewage lift station. The sewer department, ...
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  • Construction Worker Electrocuted in Maryland FACE 8744
    Construction Worker Electrocuted in Maryland: FACE 87-44
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    1987/06/29 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A construction worker was electrocuted when the boom of a crane contacted a 13 kilovolt power line. He had been guiding a load attached to the crane when the accident occurred. The company employed 44 workers and was involved in installation of water, sewer, and other underground utility lines. There were no written safety policies. At this job sit ...
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  • Confined Space Fatality at a Wastewater Treatment Plant in Indiana FACE 8746
    Confined Space Fatality at a Wastewater Treatment Plant in Indiana: FACE 87-46
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    1987/06/25 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A maintenance worker died in a wet well, 27 feet long by 18 feet wide by 26 feet deep, of a wastewater treatment facility. He had entered it to clean the bar screen filtering raw sewage. He did not use a safety harness nor did he have a coworker with him. Before raw sewage entered the well, it was supposed to pass through a comminuter which pulveri ...
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  • Painter Electrocuted in Virginia FACE 8740
    Painter Electrocuted in Virginia: FACE 87-40
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    1987/06/11 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 27 year old painter was electrocuted on April 17, 1987, while wrapping plastic around an insulator in preparation for painting a steel structure in a substation. The worker was employed by a service company which had been hired to do the painting. An inspection tour of the facility was conducted, but the crew leader, who was to take part in the p ...
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  • Apprentice Lineman Electrocuted in Virginia FACE 8742
    Apprentice Lineman Electrocuted in Virginia: FACE 87-42
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    1987/06/11 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    While removing grounds from a 230 kilovolt (kV) transmission circuit, a lineman trainee was electrocuted. The victim was employed by an electric utility company with 400 workers, a full time safety director, and a comprehensive safety program. The man was part of a crew replacing a 3 foot section of a power line damaged by a gunshot. The line was p ...
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  • 56YearOld Pipe Layer Electrocuted in North Carolina FACE 8741
    56-Year-Old Pipe Layer Electrocuted in North Carolina: FACE 87-41
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    1987/06/10 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A pipe layer was guiding a load attached to the bucket of a backhoe when the backhoe contacted a 13,200 kilovolt overhead powerline. The job that day required installation of a water drain pipe, one phase of which was the installation of a section of drain pipe under an asphalt road. A pit had been dug to within 10 feet of the roadway berm. Steel t ...
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  • Farm Worker Asphyxiated in Grain Silo in Indiana FACE 8739
    Farm Worker Asphyxiated in Grain Silo in Indiana: FACE 87-39
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    1987/05/11 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 52 year old farm worker entered an oxygen limiting silo through the top opening and was asphyxiated. He was employed on a privately owned farm with one full time and one part time worker. The farm had no written safety program with safety matters being left up to the individual workers. The owner of the farm and his full time employee were fillin ...
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  • Lineman Electrocuted in North Carolina FACE 8738
    Lineman Electrocuted in North Carolina: FACE 87-38
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    1987/05/08 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A Class-A lineman was electrocuted when the boom of a digger derrick truck contacted a 7200 volt power line while he was leaning against the truck. The victim was employed by an electrical contractor specializing in power line construction and maintenance. The company was relocating rural transmission and distribution lines for a local power compan ...
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  • Truck Driver Electrocuted in North Carolina FACE 8737
    Truck Driver Electrocuted in North Carolina: FACE 87-37
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    1987/04/23 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A truck driver was electrocuted when the bed of a dump truck he was operating contacted a 7200 volt power line. The victim was the only driver for a trucking firm that provided hauling services. There was no safety policy or program in operation at this firm. The driver, on the day of the accident, was spreading gravel in the driveway of a residenc ...
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  • Lathe Operator Electrocuted in North Carolina FACE 8729
    Lathe Operator Electrocuted in North Carolina: FACE 87-29
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    1987/04/22 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A lathe operator was electrocuted when he contacted the energized frame of a computerized lathe, February 6, 1987. The employer was a division of a major corporation manufacturing turbo chargers for diesel engines. A written safety program and policy were in existence at the time. Three grounding errors had been made during the installation of a ne ...
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  • 41YearOld Truck Driver Electrocuted After Unloading Bricks in Maryland FACE 8736
    41-Year-Old Truck Driver Electrocuted After Unloading Bricks in Maryland: FACE 87-36
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    1987/04/20 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 42 year old truck driver for a manufacturer of masonry products was electrocuted when a truck mounted crane he was operating contacted a 7600 volt power line. The driver was delivering three pallets of bricks to a new residential development and the remainder of his load to another site. The driver parked his truck on the side of the house in the ...
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  • Truck Driver Dies While Cleaning Out Inside of Tanker in South Carolina FACE 8727
    Truck Driver Dies While Cleaning Out Inside of Tanker in South Carolina: FACE 87-27
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    1987/04/07 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 26 year old truck driver died while attempting to clean out a 6500 gallon cargo tank mounted on a tractor/trailer. He worked for a liquid chemical transport company which had a written safety program and full time safety professionals on staff. The driver had delivered about 4,000 gallons of sodium-hydrosulfite covered with a nitrogen (7727379) b ...
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