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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 3461 - 3480 of 3531 results
  • Two Electrocuted on Farm in Georgia FACE 8607
    Two Electrocuted on Farm in Georgia: FACE 86-07
    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 describing an accident involving electrocutions 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 14, 1985, five farm workers were in the process of moving a portable ...
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  • School Maintenance Worker Electrocuted in Ohio FACE 8605
    School Maintenance Worker Electrocuted in Ohio: FACE 86-05
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    1985/10/28 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A fatal accident circumstances and epidemiology (FACE) report on an electrocution in Ohio was presented. The report was part of the NIOSH FACE project to collect data on electricity and confined space/related accidents that involve fatalities. On October 11, 1985, a school maintenance worker was removing obsolete wiring from a room beneath the foot ...
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  • Electric Company Employee Electrocuted in Ohio FACE 8604
    Electric Company Employee Electrocuted in Ohio: FACE 86-04
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    1985/10/23 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A fatal accident circumstances and epidemiology (FACE) report on an electrocution in Ohio was presented. The report was part of the NIOSH FACE project to collect data on electricity and confined space/related accidents involving fatalities. On August 19, 1985, a power line repairman was electrocuted while attempting to open a pole mounted, ground l ...
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  • Electric Company Lineman Electrocuted in Indiana FACE 8603
    Electric Company Lineman Electrocuted in Indiana: FACE 86-03
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    1985/10/21 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 35 year old serviceman was electrocuted while installing a guy wire to a pole. A conductor was being installed between two adjacent poles by a four man crew. The span between the poles was 341 feet with a potential voltage of 7200 volts to ground. The victim and the foreman were each in truck mounted aerial buckets on their respective poles. The ...
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  • Electronics Plant Employee Electrocuted in North Carolina FACE 8601
    Electronics Plant Employee Electrocuted in North Carolina: FACE 86-01
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    1985/10/11 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A fatal accident circumstances and epidemiology (FACE) report of 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. A 24 year old male employee of an electronics component manufacturing company was electrocuted while ...
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  • A Journeyman Electrician Electrocuted in North Carolina FACE 8602
    A Journeyman Electrician Electrocuted in North Carolina: FACE 86-02
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    1985/10/11 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A fatal accident circumstances and epidemiology (FACE) report describing 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. The victim, a journeyman electrician, was electrocuted while making a connection to a 4 inch ...
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  • Utility Company Employee Electrocuted in California While Drilling Under a Road FACE 8542
    Utility Company Employee Electrocuted in California While Drilling Under a Road: FACE 85-42
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    1985/10/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A fatal accident circumstances and epidemiology (FACE) report describing an electrocution in California was presented. The report was part of the NIOSH FACE project to collect data on electricity or confined space/related accidents involving fatalities. On July 18, 1985, a three member crew of a gas utility company was assigned to provide new servi ...
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  • Soldier Electrocuted While Installing Communication Wire in Georgia FACE 8546
    Soldier Electrocuted While Installing Communication Wire in Georgia: FACE 85-46
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    1985/09/26 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A fatal accident circumstances and epidemiology (FACE) report on an electrocution in Georgia was presented. The report was part of the NIOSH FACE project to collect data on electricity and confined space/related accidents involving fatalities. On August 24, 1985, a 23 year old soldier was stringing a communications wire across a gravel road on a mi ...
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  • Service Technician Electrocuted in North Carolina FACE 8548
    Service Technician Electrocuted in North Carolina: FACE 85-48
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    1985/09/24 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A fatal accident circumstances and epidemiology (FACE) report describing an electrocution in North Carolina was presented. The report was part of the NIOSH FACE project to collect data on electricity and confined space/related accidents involving fatalities. A service technician was electrocuted in the crawl space of a private residence on August 2 ...
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  • Iron Worker Electrocuted in Indiana FACE 8547
    Iron Worker Electrocuted in Indiana: FACE 85-47
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    1985/09/18 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A fatal accident circumstances and epidemiology (FACE) report on an electrocution in Indiana was presented. The report was part of the NIOSH FACE project to collect data on electricity or confined space/related accidents involving fatalities. An 18 year old apprentice iron worker and four journeymen iron workers were installing a vertical wind scre ...
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  • Worker Killed in CaveIn at Ohio Excavation Site FACE 8545
    Worker Killed in Cave-In at Ohio Excavation Site: FACE 85-45
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    1985/09/18 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A fatal accident circumstances and epidemiology (FACE) report on an enclosed space accident in Ohio was presented. The report was part of the NIOSH FACE project to collect data on electricity or confined space/related accidents involving fatalities. A 62 year old laborer was buried when a cave in occurred in the 11 to 12 foot deep lateral trench in ...
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  • Two Sanitation Employees Die in Confined Space in Kentucky FACE 8544
    Two Sanitation Employees Die in Confined Space in Kentucky: FACE 85-44
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    1985/08/30 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On August 24, 1985, two sanitation employees at a waste water treatment facility in Kentucky died in a sludge distribution chamber. A 25 year old shift foreman and a 32 year old operator were taking sludge samples from the chamber. The clear Plexiglas cover was removed from an opening in the top of the chamber so that samples could be taken using a ...
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  • County Worker Dies in Tennessee FACE 8543
    County Worker Dies in Tennessee: FACE 85-43
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    1985/08/29 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On August 28, 1985, a 25 year old county highway worker was electrocuted when the 20 foot steel handle of a modified post hole digger he was holding made contact with a 7200 volt power line. On the day of the accident the road crew was performing maintenance work on a clogged section of pipe in an open drainage ditch. There was a 7200 volt power li ...
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  • Mobile Home Assembly Line Worker Is Electrocuted in Ohio FACE 8541
    Mobile Home Assembly Line Worker Is Electrocuted in Ohio: FACE 85-41
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    1985/08/15 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On August 13, 1985, a mobile home assembly line worker was electrocuted when he came in contact with the exterior of a mobile home (home 1) that was electrified because of a short in the wiring of another mobile home (home 2) on the assembly line. The victim was employed by a mobile home manufacturing firm that employed about 95 laborers. Four work ...
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  • Production Welder Electrocuted in Ohio FACE 8538
    Production Welder Electrocuted in Ohio: FACE 85-38
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    1985/08/13 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On July 29, 1985, a 29 year old male production welder, an employee of a metal fabrication company, was plugging the cord to a portable welder into an extension cord when he was electrocuted. The male end of the extension cord was four pronged and the female end was spring loaded. He plugged the male end of the extension cord into the receptacle, a ...
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  • Worker in Rubber Products Plant Electrocuted in Ohio FACE 8539
    Worker in Rubber Products Plant Electrocuted in Ohio: FACE 85-39
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    1985/08/13 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 20 year old male maintenance laborer at a rubber products plant was electrocuted on July 8, 1985 when a piece of angle iron he was carrying struck an uninsulated supply wire at the top of a transformer. He was carrying a piece of angle iron about 20 feet in length to a steel rack located in the outside yard. The piece of metal was slightly elevat ...
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  • Brick Worker Electrocuted in Georgia FACE 8537
    Brick Worker Electrocuted in Georgia: FACE 85-37
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    1985/08/12 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    An employee for a brick sales and delivery company was electrocuted when the boom on a truck mounted crane he was operating contacted a 7200 volt power line. The employer was a brick sales and delivery company that employed four full time drivers and nine other employees. On the morning of the accident the driver of the company's only truck mounted ...
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  • City Water Worker Dies When Overcome by Natural Gas Vapors in a Confined Space in Ohio FACE 8540
    City Water Worker Dies When Overcome by Natural Gas Vapors in a Confined Space in Ohio: FACE 85-40
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    1985/08/12 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On July 1, 1985, an industrial meter reader employed by a mid sized city in Ohio began his workday at 7:30 am. He did not return to the garage at quitting time, 4 pm, and was found face down in a meter vault at 6:45 pm. Resuscitation efforts were not successful. The victim was 42 years old and was assigned 76 accounts to be read that day, a route w ...
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  • Billboard Worker Dies When Scaffold Makes Contact with Power Line in Tennessee FACE 8534
    Billboard Worker Dies When Scaffold Makes Contact with Power Line in Tennessee: FACE 85-34
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    1985/08/09 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A fatal accident circumstances and epidemiology (FACE) report of an electrocution in Tennessee was presented. The report was part of the NIOSH FACE project to collect data on electricity or confined space/related accidents involving fatalities. On July 20, 1985, a 39 year old billboard poster for an outdoor advertising company contacted a 13.8 kilo ...
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  • Construction Worker Dies as a Result of Applying Coating Material in Confined Space in California FACE 8533
    Construction Worker Dies as a Result of Applying Coating Material in Confined Space in California: FACE 85-33
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    1985/08/07 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A fatal accident circumstances and epidemiology (FACE) report describing a confined space accident in California was presented. The report was part of the NIOSH FACE project to collect data on electricity or confined space/related accidents involving fatalities. The victim and a coworker were exposed to 2- nitropropane (79469) and coal-tar-pitch (8 ...
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