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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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  • Farm driver overturns truck in irrigation ditch and drowns
    Farm driver overturns truck in irrigation ditch and drowns
    Oregon Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (Program) (OR-FACE)  ...
    2006/01/26 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On October 11, 2003, a 20-year-old Hispanic farm truck driver was killed when his truck full of potatoes overturned in an irrigation ditch at the edge of a farm field. The driver had been driving the potato truck for 2 weeks prior to the accident. The incident occurred about 9:30 p.m., 13 hours after the driver began work in the morning of his sixt ...
  • Nursery laborer killed in skidsteer loader
    Nursery laborer killed in skid-steer loader
    Oregon Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (Program) (OR-FACE)  ...
    2006/01/26 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On March 25, 2004, a 24-year-old nursery laborer was killed while operating a skid-steer loader. The operator was moving metal carts containing plants from an outside location to inside a greenhouse. He had been moving the carts for several hours, before he was noticed missing. The operator was discovered in a seated position in the operator's cage ...
  • Fatality Narrative Helper Killed When Trench Collapses
    Fatality Narrative: Helper Killed When Trench Collapses
    Washington (State). Department of Labor and Industries
    2006/01/26 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On October 21, 2004, the wife of an excavation company owner was killed when an unprotected trench collapsed. The 41-year-old victim was helping her husband and others in his work crew with the excavation of a trench. The trench was being dug by an excavator in order to install a sewer line to a new house. The trench was about 8 to 10 feet deep and ...
  • Dairy Farmer Dies 15 Days After AllTerrain Vehicle Rolled Over Him
    Dairy Farmer Dies 15 Days After All-Terrain Vehicle Rolled Over Him
    Anderson, Henry A. ;
    Islam, KM Monirul
    2006/01/25 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 66-year old male farmer (the victim) died two weeks after his four-wheel all-terrain vehicle (ATV) overturned on a road/trail beside an embankment on his private land, and rolled over him. The victim was driving in his pasture checking his fence and looking for an opening where his cattle got through the previous evening. The victim reported that ...
  • Operator killed when bulldozer slides off logging road
    Operator killed when bulldozer slides off logging road
    Oregon Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (Program) (OR-FACE)  ...
    2006/01/25 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On September 6, 2003, a 75-year-old logger, working as a bulldozer operator, was killed when the D6H Caterpillar crawler tractor he was operating tumbled off a steep skid road into a ravine. The operator was climbing a 20-25 degree slope while reopening an old skid road. The bulldozer slid off of the road against a tree while on a hard rock face co ...
  • Machine operator electrocuted while shoveling pellets
    Machine operator electrocuted while shoveling pellets
    Oregon Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (Program) (OR-FACE)  ...
    2006/01/25 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On January 28, 2004, a 34-year-old machine operator was electrocuted while cleaning up wood pellets from beneath a Hamer Wood Pellet Bag Sealer and its conveyor system. The operator was using a long-handled scoop shovel to push spilled wood pellets into a central pile. He grasped a metal guard on the bagging machine with his left hand and leaned fo ...
  • Farmer Dies After Being Injured While Attempting To Pull A Machine From A Wet Field
    Farmer Dies After Being Injured While Attempting To Pull A Machine From A Wet Field
    Bender, Alan ;
    Wahl, George
    2006/01/24 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 46-year-old male farmer (victim) died from injuries sustained while using a four-wheel drive tractor to pull a farm machine from a wet field. Earlier that day a forage chopper operated by a hired worker became stuck in the field. The victim drove a four-wheel drive tractor to the field to pull the chopper from where it was stuck. He hooked one en ...
  • Injury Prevention Strategies for Older Drivers
    Injury Prevention Strategies for Older Drivers
    Michigan Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (Project) (MIFACE)
    2006/01/20 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 69-year old male semi-truck driver was killed while driving a tractor-trailer with a double tank on an interstate highway. Near an exit ramp, the tractor-trailer drove off of the roadway to the right and tried to re-enter. The vehicle's right side tires entered the gravel shoulder; the vehicle began to rotate in a counter clockwise direction and ...
  • A supervisor dies when crushed by a machine that manufactures concrete blocks
    A supervisor dies when crushed by a machine that manufactures concrete blocks.
    Cierpich, Hank ;
    Harrison, Robert
    2006/01/19 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 52-year-old Hispanic supervisor died when he was crushed in a machine used in manufacturing concrete blocks. Evidence suggests that the victim had climbed on top of the machine, possibly to reconnect an air line. The victim did not shut the machine down and lock and tag it out prior to climbing on top of it. The skip hoist had dumped product into ...
  • A helper on a steelslitting machine died when caught in between some sheet metal and the rewind cylinder
    A helper on a steel-slitting machine died when caught in between some sheet metal and the rewind cylinder
    Cierpich, Hank ;
    Harrison, Robert
    2006/01/19 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 37-year-old Hispanic helper on a steel-slitting machine died when he was caught between some sheet metal and the rewind cylinder. The victim went underneath the machine to pick up scrap pieces of sheet metal when the incident occurred. The victim entered the machine through an area which was not guarded. The CA/FACE investigator determined that, ...
  • Career Helitack Fire Fighter Dies in Burnover During an Initial Attack at a Wildland Fire Operation CA
    Career Helitack Fire Fighter Dies in Burnover During an Initial Attack at a Wildland Fire Operation - CA
    McFall, Mark F. ;
    Braddee, Richard W.
    2006/01/13 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    Death in the Line of Duty…a Summary of a NIOSH Fire Fighter Fatality InvestigationOn September 12, 2004, a 24-year-old female career fire fighter (the victim) died while conducting an initial attack at a wildland fire. A Helitack crew responded in a helicopter to a wildland fire in a remote river drainage with slopes ranging from 80 to 120 percent. ...
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  • Mechanic killed while inspecting masonry stacker machine
    Mechanic killed while inspecting masonry stacker machine
    Oregon Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (Program) (OR-FACE)  ...
    2006/01/05 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On May 5, 2005, a 55-year-old experienced millwright maintenance mechanic was killed while inspecting repairs to a building materials setting machine. New parts had been installed a week earlier. The repaired machine, commonly called a "stacker," had been operating well for 4 days prior to the incident. On the morning of the incident, the stacker w ...
  • Informacin FACE Sobre La Recoleccin de Basura
    Información "FACE" Sobre La Recolección de Basura
    New York State Department of Health  ...
    2006/01/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    Entre 2003 y 2005, en el norte del estado de Nueva York, siete trabajadores fallecieron mientras recogían la basura. A continuación se presentan descripciones reales de los trabajadores que murieron mientras trabajaban. Un basurero de 21 años iba montado en un camión de basura que iba en reversa por una calle. Se cayó por la parte trasera del camió ...
  • Informacin FACE Sobre el Embalaje
    Información "FACE" Sobre el Embalaje
    New York State Department of Health  ...
    2006/01/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    Entre 2004 y 2005, en el norte del estado de Nueva York, dos trabajadores fallecieron mientras operaban equipo de embalaje y compresión. A continuación se describe cómo fallecieron los trabajadores mientras trabajaban. El gerente de una tienda por departamentos falleció aplastado por una máquina compactadora de cartón. La compuerta de seguridad no ...
  • Informacin FACE Sobre el Trabajo Forestal
    Información "FACE" Sobre el Trabajo Forestal
    New York State Department of Health  ...
    2006/01/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    En Nueva York 25 trabajadores murieron en tareas forestales o de tala de árboles entre 2002 y 2005. A continuación se presentan descripciones reales de trabajadores que murieron haciendo su trabajo. Un leñador murió al cortar un árbol que le servía de apoyo a otro. El árbol lo golpeó al caer. Un trabajador que realizaba tareas forestales se electro ...
  • Baling FACE Facts
    Baling FACE Facts
    New York State Department of Health  ...
    2006/01/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    In upstate New York, 2 workers died while operating balers and compactors between 2004 and 2005. Below are descriptions of how the workers were killed on the job. A department store manager was killed when he was crushed in a cardboard baling machine. The safety gate was not closed during baling and the victim climbed into the baling chamber and wa ...
  • Sanitation FACE Facts
    Sanitation FACE Facts
    New York State Department of Health  ...
    2006/01/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 21-year-old sanitation worker was riding on a garbage truck that was backing down a street. He fell off the back of the truck and was run over by the front wheel. A 30-year-old sanitation worker was riding on a garbage truck on a rainy morning when the truck went around a corner. He fell off the truck and struck his head on the pavement. A 24-yea ...
  • TreeWork FACE Facts
    Tree-Work FACE Facts
    New York State Department of Health  ...
    2006/01/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    In New York, 25 workers died doing tree work or logging between 2002 and 2005. Below are real-life descriptions of workers who were killed on the job. A logger was killed when he cut a support tree that was holding up a lodged tree. The lodged tree struck him. A tree service worker was electrocuted when his pruning tool touched a 7,200V power line. ...
  • Three Construction Workers Killed after being Struck by a Bus in a Highway Work Zone
    Three Construction Workers Killed after being Struck by a Bus in a Highway Work Zone
    New York State Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Program (NY FACE)  ...
    2005/12/28 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On May 20, 2005, three male construction workers, employed by a paving company, sustained fatal injuries when they were struck by a passenger bus in a highway work zone. The work zone, located in the southbound lane of a four-lane divided interstate highway, was demarcated by the required orange traffic cones and warning signs. The southbound drivi ...
  • Roofer Killed After Falling From a Ladder Lowered From a School Roof
    Roofer Killed After Falling From a Ladder Lowered From a School Roof
    Bost, Patrick ;
    Bresnitz, Eddy A.
    2005/12/27 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On May 13, 2005, a 26-year-old roofer was killed when he fell while climbing down an extension ladder that he had just lowered from the first story roof of a high school. The incident occurred at an urban high school that had contracted with the victim's employer to renovate the school's flat roof. This was the last day of the construction project, ...
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