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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 3441 - 3460 of 3531 results
  • PartTime Laborer Electrocuted in Ohio FACE 8627
    Part-Time Laborer Electrocuted in Ohio: FACE 86-27
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    1986/05/30 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A part time laborer was electrocuted when a metal pole he was carrying to the roof came in contact with a 7200 volt line. Two part time members of a clean up crew, aged 17 and 18 years, were to remove an accumulation of soot that had built up inside smoke stacks at the facility where they were both employed. They were using a 49 inch pole which had ...
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  • Foundry Worker Dies in Indiana FACE 8623
    Foundry Worker Dies in Indiana: FACE 86-23
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    1986/05/13 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A foundry worker died as a result of exposure to methyl-chloroform (71556) while performing maintenance operations on a conveyor drive chain. He was using methyl-chloroform as a degreasing agent. The area from which he was servicing the chain was a pit, 28 feet long, 14 feet wide and 5 feet deep with a permanent ladder. The drive chain was about 2. ...
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  • 37YearOld Scale Technician Electrocuted in Indiana FACE 8624
    37-Year-Old Scale Technician Electrocuted in Indiana: FACE 86-24
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    1986/05/09 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 37 year old scale technician was electrocuted while he and a crane operator were attempting to move an abandoned truck platform scale. The scale was in three parts: a wooden platform, the scale frame, and the scale. The scale and wooden platform were retrieved in the morning and early afternoon. The victim then entered the pit where the scale was ...
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  • Lineman Electrocuted in North Carolina FACE 8621
    Lineman Electrocuted in North Carolina: FACE 86-21
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    1986/04/23 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A first class lineman with 26 years of experience was electrocuted while working on repairs at an electrical co/op substation. In response to a major power outage situation involving two areas and two substations, the operations manager of a service crew was alerted. One phase of a bus structure had burned in two and fallen across two phase jumpers ...
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  • 21YearOld Electrocuted While Moving Grain Auger in Indiana FACE 8622
    21-Year-Old Electrocuted While Moving Grain Auger in Indiana: FACE 86-22
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    1986/04/21 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 21 year old warehouseman was electrocuted while he and another worker were attempting to move a grain auger. The warehouseman and a truck driver had been sent to a grain storage area to bring back a load of grain. They proceeded to the storage area to load grain from the storage bin into the truck for transport. The truck driver had been employed ...
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  • 23YearOld Lineman Electrocuted in North Carolina FACE 8620
    23-Year-Old Lineman Electrocuted in North Carolina: FACE 86-20
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    1986/04/21 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 23 year old lineman was electrocuted when he came into contact with a lightning arrestor conductor during work on a connection box on a utility pole. The lineman and a supervising lineman were to remove and replace a capacitor bank from a utility pole in a rural area. The upper cross member supported three 7200 volt conductors and each conductor ...
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  • 21YearOld Technician Electrocuted in Indiana FACE 8614
    21-Year-Old Technician Electrocuted in Indiana: FACE 86-14
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    1986/03/24 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 21 year old male plastic extrusion machine operator was electrocuted after he reenergized the corona treater on his machine. The corona treatment, to allow printing on the plastic sheet, required charging a steel treater bar with a direct current (DC). A corona was established between a grounded conductive roller and the treater bar, through whic ...
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  • Steel Worker Dies in an Industrial Waste Pit in Pennsylvania FACE 8615
    Steel Worker Dies in an Industrial Waste Pit in Pennsylvania: FACE 86-15
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    1986/03/18 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A fatal accident in which a steel worker fell into an industrial waste pit in Pennsylvania was investigated. A mobile crane was being used to change a steam operated vertical pump in the pit. The steel worker, a 58 year old man, fell into the waste pit and died as a result. The pit was a collection point for wastes from coke oven operations. The co ...
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  • Worker Dies in Fermentation Tank in Montana FACE 8613
    Worker Dies in Fermentation Tank in Montana: FACE 86-13
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    1986/03/17 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 35 year old worker at an alcohol and feed mash production operation died of asphyxiation from carbon-dioxide (124389) in a fermentation tank. The victim had been working for 3 weeks at his present job, which was to hose down the interior of fermentation tanks, 84 inches in diameter by 88 inches high, which hold about 1200 gallons each. His safety ...
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  • Truck Driver Suffocates in Sawdust Bin in Pennsylvania FACE 8619
    Truck Driver Suffocates in Sawdust Bin in Pennsylvania: FACE 86-19
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    1986/03/06 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 22 year old self employed truck driver had an agreement with a local sawmill to remove sawdust from the facility on a regular basis. On the day of the accident, he drove his truck underneath the auger that dispensed the sawdust. This auger was mounted 5 feet above ground level on the side of the sawdust bin. When the driver turned the auger on, v ...
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  • 28YearOld Truck Driver Electrocuted in Georgia FACE 8617
    28-Year-Old Truck Driver Electrocuted in Georgia: FACE 86-17
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    1986/02/27 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A truck driver was unloading precast concrete manhole assemblies at a construction site when the boom of the crane mounted on the trailer contacted a 7200 volt overhead power line, electrocuting the driver. The driver had considered the conditions at the site to be too muddy to unload. After checking with the business office, he obtained an alterna ...
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  • Telephone Construction Worker Electrocuted in North Carolina FACE 8618
    Telephone Construction Worker Electrocuted in North Carolina: FACE 86-18
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    1986/02/20 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A groundman employed by a telephone construction company was electrocuted when a hydraulic boom contacted a 7.2 kilovolt power line while a guy wire was being placed. An anchor for the guy wire was to be installed almost directly under the power line. The hydraulic boom of a truck crane was to be used to screw the anchor into the ground. As the ope ...
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  • Printing Machine Operator Electrocuted in Indiana FACE 8616
    Printing Machine Operator Electrocuted in Indiana: FACE 86-16
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    1986/02/11 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 32 year old gilter operator was electrocuted when he entered the electrical panelboard of his machine to reset a circuit breaker. The process on which he was working at the time involved sanding and laying of gold on the edges of books. He had stopped his machine to change a sanding belt, a routine procedure. Once he had completed the change, he ...
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  • 33 YearOld Apprentice Substation Electrician Fatally Injured FACE 8610
    33 Year-Old Apprentice Substation Electrician Fatally Injured: FACE 86-10
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    1986/01/14 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 33 year old apprentice substation electrician in the final 6 months of a 6 year training program died after he came in contact with electrical energy and fell from an aerial bucket. Two journeyman substation electricians and two apprentice substation electricians were working as a crew to clean high voltage disconnect circuits at a large substati ...
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  • Worker Dies in Mining Equipment Repair Facility FACE 8612
    Worker Dies in Mining Equipment Repair Facility: FACE 86-12
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    1986/01/06 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 50 year old welder working at a mine machine repair facility died as a result of injuries incurred when a block of ice and frozen slag fell, pinning him against the grinder he was operating. The welder had been grinding a small metal plate. About 3 feet behind him a 20 ton coal car was lying on its side. The bottom of the car contained frozen mat ...
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  • Trauma epidemiology of confined space fatalities and its application to interventionprevention now
    Trauma epidemiology of confined space fatalities and its application to intervention/prevention now.
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    Reese CD
    1986/01/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    The NIOSH Fatal Accident Circumstances and Epidemiology (FACE) project and its application to accident intervention and prevention were discussed. The FACE project was established by the Division of Safety Research (DSR) at NIOSH in response to the lack of data suitable for evaluating the risk of fatal occupational accidents. It was felt that by st ...
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  • Lineman Electrocuted in North Carolina FACE 8609
    Lineman Electrocuted in North Carolina: FACE 86-09
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    1985/12/23 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 34 year old male lineman was electrocuted while attempting to install a 37.5 kilovolt (kV) transformer on a new pole. The new pole was situated next to the old pole, and the 13.2kV primary conductor had been transferred to the new pole. A U-shaped connector was clamped to the primary conductor which served to connect the transformer input wire to ...
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  • Two Electrical Contractor Employees Electrocuted in Kentucky FACE 8611
    Two Electrical Contractor Employees Electrocuted in Kentucky: FACE 86-11
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    1985/12/19 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    While installing electrical service to a mobile home, two electrical contractor employees were electrocuted. A three man crew consisting of a foreman, a lineman and a groundman had covered all three power lines with insulating hose, set a mid span pole, and attached a cross bar to that pole in preparation for the installation of a transformer. The ...
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  • 18YearOld Electricians Apprentice Electrocuted in North Carolina FACE 8608
    18-Year-Old Electrician's Apprentice Electrocuted in North Carolina: FACE 86-08
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    1985/11/19 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A fatal accident circumstances and epidemiology (FACE) report on an electrocution in North Carolina was presented. The report was part of the NIOSH FACE project to collect data on electricity or confined space/related accidents involving fatalities. On October 28, 1985, an 18 year old electrician's apprentice was relocating overhead junction boxes ...
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  • Three Electrocuted on Farm in Georgia FACE 8606
    Three Electrocuted on Farm in Georgia: FACE 86-06
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    1985/11/07 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A fatal accident circumstances and epidemiology (FACE) report on an accident involving an electrocution in Georgia was presented. The report was part of the NIOSH FACE project to collect data on electricity or confined space/related accidents involving fatalities. On October 18, 1985, two farm workers, 21 and 41 year old males, and the owner, a 61 ...
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