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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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  • Temporary mill worker dies in fall from tower catwalk
    Temporary mill worker dies in fall from tower catwalk
    Oregon Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (Program) (OR-FACE)  ...
    2006/10/10 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On June 23, 2005, a 43-year-old temporary worker at a lumber planing mill, operating a tower conveyor, fell 17 ft off a catwalk in the tower, and died 2 days later. While operating the planer, the temporary worker observed broken pieces of 2x4s beginning to jam up the flow of lumber. Following standard procedure, he stopped the conveyor and stepped ...
  • Millwright Dies When Struck by Uncontrolled Flailing Crane Cable
    Millwright Dies When Struck by Uncontrolled, Flailing Crane Cable
    Michigan Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (Project) (MIFACE)  ...
    2006/10/03 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On Tuesday, June 22, 2004, at approximately 1:10 p.m., a 62-year-old millwright was fatally injured when the overhead crane he was attempting to troubleshoot malfunctioned during a lift. The crane had been used to lift a draw die weighing 42.5 tons to a height of between 15 and 25 feet above the plant floor. After the initial lift, the die setter f ...
  • Fatality Narrative Site Superintendent Falls Through Skylight Cutout
    Fatality Narrative: Site Superintendent Falls Through Skylight Cutout
    Washington (State). Department of Labor and Industries
    2006/10/02 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On February 18, 2006, a site superintendent was killed when he fell through a skylight cutout. The 62-year-old victim, with 30 years of experience as a construction manager and supervisor, had worked for his present employer for 7 months. The incident happened at a grocery store under construction, where workers had been cutting 5' by 6'skylight op ...
  • A gas well drilling floorhand died when he was struck by a hoisted wellhead equipment stack
    A gas well drilling floorhand died when he was struck by a hoisted wellhead equipment stack.
    Oklahoma Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (OKFACE)  ...
    2006/10/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 56-year-old gas well drilling floorhand died on May 30, 2005 from chest trauma he received after being struck by a hoisted wellhead stack that overturned. The stack was composed of a lower spool, blowout preventer (BOP), upper spool, and a rotary head. The crew was attempting to replace the lower spool at the time of incident. As the victim and a ...
  • Summary of Reportable Injuries in Oklahoma Occupational Fatalities in Oklahoma 19982005
    Summary of Reportable Injuries in Oklahoma: Occupational Fatalities in Oklahoma, 1998-2005
    Archer P ;
    Stephens Stidham S
    2006/10/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    In July 1997, the Commissioner of Health declared work-related fatalities a reportable condition for special study. The Injury Prevention Service of the Oklahoma State Department of Health began collecting data on work-related injury deaths in Oklahoma through the Oklahoma Fatality Assessment Control and Evaluation (OKFACE) project. Both intentiona ...
  • Worker Killed When Crushed By Multiple Granite Slabs Massachusetts
    Worker Killed When Crushed By Multiple Granite Slabs - Massachusetts
    Massachusetts Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Project (Massachusetts FACE)  ...
    2006/09/27 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On October 3, 2005, a 38-year-old male laborer/granite worker (the victim) was fatally injured when he became caught between five stone slabs and a stone table. At the time of the incident, the victim was retrieving a granite slab (from this point forward referred to as granite slab 2) that was stored with four other stone slabs in the first sectio ...
  • Fatality Narrative Siding Installer Falls from Ladder
    Fatality Narrative: Siding Installer Falls from Ladder
    Washington (State). Department of Labor and Industries
    2006/09/13 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On January 4, 2006, a siding installer died when he fell from a ladder. The 28-year-old victim had two years of experience as a siding installer and was working for a siding contractor. He was using an aluminum extension ladder to access and replace a vent in the gable of a two-story single family residence. The top side rails of the ladder were se ...
  • Fatal Facts Fall Hazards in the Construction Industry
    Fatal Facts: Fall Hazards in the Construction Industry
    Washington (State). Department of Labor and Industries
    2006/09/08 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    Falls killed more workers in the construction industry than any other type of incident in Washington State during the years 1998-2005. They accounted for 40 out of 114, or 35% of construction fatalities. The victims fell from ladders, scaffolding, roofs, unguarded building edges, and through roof and floor openings and skylights. They were employed ...
  • Maintenance Worker Dies After Pinned Between Overhead Bridge Crane and Roof Truss
    Maintenance Worker Dies After Pinned Between Overhead Bridge Crane and Roof Truss
    Anderson, Henry A. ;
    Islam, KM Monirul
    2006/09/06 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On August 2, 2005, a 55-year-old maintenance worker (the victim) was pinned between an overhead bridge crane and a roof truss. The victim was part of a two-man maintenance team that ascended 20 feet up a ladder and climbed onto a 30-ton Whitney bridge crane. The victim and another maintenance man were going to adjust the brakes on the 5-ton hoist o ...
  • Car Carrier Truck Driver Dies When Crushed By Ramp of Car Carrier
    Car Carrier Truck Driver Dies When Crushed By Ramp of Car Carrier
    Anderson, Henry A. ;
    Islam, KM Monirul
    2006/09/06 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On July 26, 2005, a 59-year-old truck driver (the victim) was fatally crushed while loading used cars onto the auto transport truck carrier. The victim was working alone when he unknowingly activated the hydraulic controls to the ramp for one of the carriers causing it to move forward and downward. The movement caught the victim and pinned and crus ...
  • Fatal Injuries at Work Massachusetts Fatality Update 20032004
    Fatal Injuries at Work: Massachusetts Fatality Update, 2003-2004
    2006/09/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    Every year, men and women in a wide variety of jobs and industries throughout Massachusetts die as a result of injuries suffered at work. These deaths are all the more tragic because they are largely preventable. Information about when and how they occur is essential in order to target effective prevention programs. In Massachusetts, the Occupation ...
  • Farmer Killed When Raised Frontend Loader Bucket Attachment Falls
    Farmer Killed When Raised Front-end Loader Bucket Attachment Falls
    Madsen, Murray D. ;
    Rautiainen, Risto
    2006/08/31 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    During the spring of 2005, a 45-year-old farmer was killed while feeding cattle on his farm. The man was driving a tractor equipped with a front-end loader that had a bucket attached to its lift arms. He was towing a single-axle feed cart behind the tractor and had finished filling several feeders in the cattle yard. On his way out of the cattle ya ...
  • Quality Control Operator Dies After Falling Into Cherry Processing Brine Tank
    Quality Control Operator Dies After Falling Into Cherry Processing Brine Tank.
    Michigan Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (Project) (MIFACE)  ...
    2006/08/31 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On July 12, 2005, a 38-year-old female quality control operator fell into a brine tank being filled with cherries and drowned. She was the primary tank room supervisor responsible for supervising the loading station employees, monitoring the incoming levels of cherries into the brine tank, recirculation of excess brine from the tank back to the loa ...
  • Farmer Pitched from Cart that Tipped while Being Unloaded by Grain Vacuum
    Farmer Pitched from Cart that Tipped while Being Unloaded by Grain Vacuum
    Madsen, Murray D. ;
    Rautiainen, Risto
    2006/08/29 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    During the winter of 2005, an 81-year-old farmer died while pneumatically conveying corn from a parked auger wagon into an area of his machinery storage shed. He was standing in the corn near the front of the single-axle grain cart, which had been unhitched from the tractor. The PTO-driven grain vacuum was positioned in the doorway with the tractor ...
  • Roofer Electrocuted and Another Severely Shocked When the Aluminum Extension Ladder He was Moving Contacted an Overhead Power Line Massachusetts
    Roofer Electrocuted and Another Severely Shocked When the Aluminum Extension Ladder He was Moving Contacted an Overhead Power Line - Massachusetts
    Massachusetts Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Project (Massachusetts FACE)  ...
    2006/08/29 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On October 9, 2004, a 40-year-old roofer (victim) was fatally injured and a co-worker was seriously injured when the aluminum extension ladder they were unloading from a pickup truck contacted a 7,620 volt energized overhead power line. The day of the incident, a Saturday morning, the victim and the co-worker were at the incident site dropping off ...
  • Recycling Collector Dies After Falling Under the Wheels of His Truck
    Recycling Collector Dies After Falling Under the Wheels of His Truck
    Bost, Patrick ;
    Bresnitz, Eddy A.
    2006/08/24 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On September 2, 2005, a 26-year-old Hispanic recycling collector was killed when he was run over by a recycling truck. The victim worked for a non-profit company that collected recyclable household materials such as bottles and cans. A crew of three was assigned to a new recycling truck, a large commercial vehicle similar to a traditional garbage t ...
  • Hispanic Butcher Dies After Being Struck By SemiTrailer Gate
    Hispanic Butcher Dies After Being Struck By Semi-Trailer Gate
    Anderson, Henry A. ;
    Islam, KM Monirul
    2006/08/24 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On March 1, 2005, a 32-year-old Hispanic butcher (the victim) was struck by the rear gate of a semi trailer dump truck. The crew consisted of the victim and his Hispanic co-worker, the Bobcat operator. The victim entered the semi-trailer to put a chain on a dead cow and the Bobcat operator dragged the dead cow off the semi-trailer using a Bobcat (s ...
  • Snow Plow Driver Dies When Caught in Auger of Salt Spreader
    Snow Plow Driver Dies When Caught in Auger of Salt Spreader
    Anderson, Henry A. ;
    Islam, KM Monirul
    2006/08/24 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On December 20, 2004, a 55-year-old truck driver (the victim) died after his clothing became entwined around a rotary auger that was used to move salt in the back of a dump truck to a spreader. He was alone, operating a snowplow Ford F550 dump truck with a hydraulically operated Swenson salt spreading attachment, at the time of the incident. He was ...
  • Equipment Operator Killed when Pinned to a Tree by an Excavator
    Equipment Operator Killed when Pinned to a Tree by an Excavator
    New York State Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Program (NY FACE)  ...
    2006/08/22 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On February 21, 2006, a 47-year-old equipment operator, who was working for an excavating company, died after he was pinned to a tree by the cab of the hydraulic excavator he was operating. At the time of the incident, the victim had been directed by the company owner to use the excavator to move dirt, clear debris, and fill a trench with sand at a ...
  • A 17yearold Hispanic laborer died when crushed by concrete and stone castings
    A 17-year-old Hispanic laborer died when crushed by concrete and stone castings.
    Cierpich, Hank ;
    Harrison, Robert
    2006/08/21 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 17-year-old Hispanic laborer died when he was crushed by stacked pallets of stone and concrete castings that were being cured in an oven. The victim was guiding a forklift with a pallet of concrete and stone castings into place when other stacked pallets collapsed on him. The victim was unable to get out of the way in time. The pallets being used ...
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