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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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  • Fall From Stepladder
    Fall From Stepladder
    Nebraska Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (Nebraska FACE)  ...
    2006/03/23 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 54-year-old convenience store manager died, apparently as a result of a blood clot, four days after she fell and fractured both of her arms. According to a coworker who was called to the store after the accident, the victim had been in the process of filling an ice dispenser on a self service drink machine with a five-gallon bucket of ice when sh ...
  • Young adult female waitress died from an asthma attack while working in a bar
    Young adult female waitress died from an asthma attack while working in a bar
    Michigan Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (Project) (MIFACE)  ...
    2006/03/03 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On May 1, 2004, a 19-year-old African-American female waitress working at a bar died from an asthma attack. The bar was divided into two separate areas, the bar area with limited seating and a room with a disc jockey (DJ) booth. When the victim arrived at work at 9:45 p.m., she talked with the DJ who was setting up in the adjacent room, then walked ...
  • Wood Floor Sanders Killed When Floor Finishing Product Catches Fire Massachusetts
    Wood Floor Sanders Killed When Floor Finishing Product Catches Fire - Massachusetts
    2006/03/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    Wood floor finishing can expose workers, building occupants, and homeowners to fire hazards. In Massachusetts, three wood floor sanders died within a 10 month period (September 2004-July 2005) in two separate fires when the flammable lacquer floor sealer they were using caught fire. The sealer used in these incidents was highly flammable (flash poi ...
  • Fatality Narrative Excavation Contractor Killed When Bulldozer Rolls Over While Unloading from Trailer
    Fatality Narrative: Excavation Contractor Killed When Bulldozer Rolls Over While Unloading from Trailer
    Washington (State). Department of Labor and Industries
    2006/02/28 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On July 16, 2005, the owner of an excavation contracting company died when he sustained crushing injuries from a bulldozer that overturned. The 68-year-old victim was in the process of unloading the bulldozer from its trailer that was parked alongside a roadway. As the victim was maneuvering the bulldozer off the trailer, a section of the road gave ...
  • Maintenance Mechanic Killed when Improperly Installed Overhead Garage Door Toppled Scissors Lift
    Maintenance Mechanic Killed when Improperly Installed Overhead Garage Door Toppled Scissors Lift
    New York State Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Program (NY FACE)  ...
    2006/02/24 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On December 13, 2004, a 62-year-old maintenance mechanic employed by a facility maintenance firm, was fatally injured while servicing an overhead garage door for a shipping company. The facility maintenance firm had been contracted by the shipping company to repair the garage door. At the time of the incident, the victim and a co-worker were testin ...
  • Ironworker Foreman Crushed when Bridge Support Element Broke During Dismantling
    Ironworker Foreman Crushed when Bridge Support Element Broke During Dismantling
    New York State Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Program (NY FACE)  ...
    2006/02/24 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On February 24, 2005, a 43-year-old male ironworker foreman, who was employed by a construction company, sustained fatal injuries when elements of a bridge support structure he was dismantling broke apart and he was crushed between them at a bridge construction site. On the day of the incident, the victim and a co-worker were dismantling a span of ...
  • Worker Killed in a Fall in a Bakery Fermentation Tank
    Worker Killed in a Fall in a Bakery Fermentation Tank
    New Jersey Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (NJ FACE)  ...
    2006/02/22 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On January 10, 2005, a 34-year-old male Hispanic worker was killed when he fell in a seven-feet-deep fermentation tank at a wholesale bakery. The worker was cleaning the lid and outer portion of the top of the tank with a cleaning pad when the pad apparently fell to the bottom of the tank. It is unknown what specifically caused the fatal incident. ...
  • Farmer Dies After Being Engulfed In Corn Inside A Steel Grain Bin 05MN040
    Farmer Dies After Being Engulfed In Corn Inside A Steel Grain Bin [05MN040]
    Bender, Alan ;
    Wahl, George
    2006/02/22 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 47-year-old male farmer (victim) died after he was engulfed in corn inside a steel bin that was nearly full of corn. The bin was equipped with a ventilation fan however it was not turned on at the time of the incident. The bin had one access hatch located near the edge of the roof that was accessible by an exterior ladder attached to the side of ...
  • Worker Crushed To Death by Falling Steel Coil
    Worker Crushed To Death by Falling Steel Coil
    Kentucky Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (KY FACE)  ...
    2006/02/21 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On April 13, 2005, a 40-year-old male laborer was moving a 5-feet by 9-inch coil of slitted steel, weighing 6600 pounds, when it fell on him. The laborer was in the process of wrapping a chain through the middle of the coil and through a homemade device on the forks of a forklift when the coil tipped over. As the laborer tried to move away from the ...
  • A farmer was killed while bypassstarting his tractor 05OK01901
    A farmer was killed while bypass-starting his tractor. [05-OK-019-01]
    Oklahoma Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (OKFACE)  ...
    2006/02/17 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 67-year-old farmer died on February 23, 2005 from crushing injuries after being run over by a tractor that he was attempting to bypass-start. The decedent was using a tractor to transport a large bale of hay to a field when the tractor died and would not restart. The victim walked to a barn where his wife was working, and they drove a pickup truc ...
  • Two Window Washers Fall 90 Feet When Their Horizontal Static Line Failed Massachusetts
    Two Window Washers Fall 90 Feet When Their Horizontal Static Line Failed - Massachusetts
    Massachusetts Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Project (Massachusetts FACE)  ...
    2006/02/16 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On May 15, 2003, two male window washers (the victims), ages 20 and 47, were fatally injured when they fell approximately 90 feet. At the time of the incident, the victims were using rope descent systems with seat boards to wash windows of an eight-story building. Both victims' descent control devices and personal fall arrest systems were attached ...
  • FifteenYearOld Hispanic Youth Dies After Entering the Hopper of a Bark Blower Maryland FACE 200408
    Fifteen-Year-Old Hispanic Youth Dies After Entering the Hopper of a Bark Blower - Maryland: FACE 2004-08
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    2006/02/13 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On May 18, 2004, a fifteen-year-old Hispanic youth died after entering the hopper of a bark blower and becoming entangled in an auger. The victim was a member of a two-man crew dispensing mulch onto the back yard of a new residence in a housing complex. The self-contained, truck-mounted bark blower had been filled to capacity with mulch at the comp ...
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  • Worker killed in wooddust fire sparked by faulty fuse
    Worker killed in wood-dust fire sparked by faulty fuse
    Oregon Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (Program) (OR-FACE)  ...
    2006/02/09 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On August 11, 2003, a 50-year-old production worker was seriously burned, and died 5 days later, from a fire that resulted when wood dust exploded at a wood-flour mill. On the previous day, the worker was shown a makeshift fuse that had been installed in the fuse box. A nonrenewable cartridge fuse had been repaired by taping a renewable fuse elemen ...
  • Technician crushed when aerial platform lift engaged
    Technician crushed when aerial platform lift engaged
    Oregon Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (Program) (OR-FACE)  ...
    2006/02/09 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On April 9, 2005, a 51-year-old security systems technician for a freight shipping company was killed while operating a Gradall aerial platform. The technician was working alone, using the rented aerial platform (an articulating boom lift) to install security camera equipment above the doors of a freight terminal. After completing the wiring of one ...
  • Janitor using propane buffer killed by carbon monoxide
    Janitor using propane buffer killed by carbon monoxide
    Oregon Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (Program) (OR-FACE)  ...
    2006/02/09 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On November 13, 2004, a 50-year-old male janitor was found dead at a job site where he was cleaning floors with a propane buffer. The janitor had completed all but one room of the 1,500-2,000 sq. ft office building. He was found collapsed and unresponsive about 6 ft from the buffer, which was still running in the idle position. No external doors or ...
  • A utility cleanup worker for a brick manufacturer suffocated in a storage silo
    A utility cleanup worker for a brick manufacturer suffocated in a storage silo.
    Oklahoma Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (OKFACE)  ...
    2006/02/05 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 19-year-old Hispanic utility cleanup worker for a brick manufacturer died on August 5, 2005 from environmental suffocation after becoming entrapped in the ground shale contents of a storage silo. Near the end of the victim's shift, he ascended a stair and catwalk system to the top of a 25-foot tall storage silo to verify that the silo was full. W ...
  • Laborer Dies when Crushed Between Forklift Cage and Mast
    Laborer Dies when Crushed Between Forklift Cage and Mast
    Anderson, Henry A. ;
    Islam, KM Monirul
    2006/02/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On January 21, 2004, a 41-year-old male laborer (the victim) died when he was crushed between the cage of a forklift and the forklift mast. The victim was using a Caterpillar forklift (powered industrial truck) to unload bundled lumber from a semi-truck in the warehouse of a cabinet manufacturing shop. He had unloaded three bundles of lumber and st ...
  • Flagger Fatally Injured When Struck by a Car at a Highway Work Zone in Washington State
    Flagger Fatally Injured When Struck by a Car at a Highway Work Zone in Washington State
    Washington (State). Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (WA FACE)  ...
    2006/01/31 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On February 22, 2000, a 42-year-old male maintenance technician, who was performing the duties of a traffic control flagger, died when he was struck by a car at a highway work zone. The flagger (the fatal victim), was working with a state maintenance team to install a new roadside information sign along a major two-lane state highway. The driver of ...
  • Two Vietnamese Floor Sanders Die When Wood Floor Finish Product Ignites Massachusetts
    Two Vietnamese Floor Sanders Die When Wood Floor Finish Product Ignites - Massachusetts
    Massachusetts Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Project (Massachusetts FACE)  ...
    2006/01/31 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On September 2, 2004, two 35-year-old floor sanders (victims) were fatally injured and two other floor sanders were burned, one seriously, when the three-family house they were working in caught fire. The victims were refinishing the wood floors in the third floor unit and the stairs leading up to the third floor unit of the multifamily house. The ...
  • Hispanic Laborer Dies After Falling Through Roof of Old Building
    Hispanic Laborer Dies After Falling Through Roof of Old Building
    Anderson, Henry A. ;
    Islam, KM Monirul
    2006/01/26 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On August 7, 2003, a 29-year-old Hispanic laborer (the victim) fell through the roof of an old building during renovation. The crew, including the victim, was working for an asbestos abatement company at the time of the incident. On-site were the general contractor (Company A), a salvage company (Company B) and the asbestos abatement company (Compa ...
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