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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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  • Two Hispanic Construction Laborers Ages Fifteen and Sixteen Die After Trench Collapse South Carolina FACE 200307
    Two Hispanic Construction Laborers (Ages Fifteen and Sixteen) Die After Trench Collapse - South Carolina: FACE 2003-07
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    2004/02/12 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On January 28, 2003, two Hispanic construction laborers [15 and 16-year-old brothers] (the victims) died when the trench they were working in experienced a cave-in. The victims were members of a crew installing conduit in an eight-foot-deep by two-foot-wide trench. When work started, the jobsite foreman instructed the crew leader to operate a backh ...
    Public Domain
  • Youth Killed in Tractor Rollover While Moving Large Hay Bales
    Youth Killed in Tractor Rollover While Moving Large Hay Bales
    Wisconsin Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (Wisconsin FACE)  ...
    2004/02/11 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On September 15, 2002, an 11 year-old youth died when he was pinned under the tractor he was driving. The victim was working by himself moving large round bales of hay from a field into a row so they could be loaded later. When he didn't return to the farm at the expected time, his brother went to the field and found the victim under the tractor. T ...
  • Vehicle Mounted Work Platform Tips Killing Bridge Inspector Massachusetts
    Vehicle Mounted Work Platform Tips Killing Bridge Inspector - Massachusetts
    Massachusetts Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Project (Massachusetts FACE)  ...
    2004/02/06 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On November 15, 2001, a 65-year-old male structural engineer (the victim) was fatally injured while inspecting a viaduct. The victim and another co-worker were conducting their inspection on a vehicle mounted work platform that was extended approximately 50 feet up and out in the passenger side direction when the truck tipped in that same direction ...
  • Farm Youth Dies After Tractor She was Driving Rolled Over on Her
    Farm Youth Dies After Tractor She was Driving Rolled Over on Her
    Minnesota Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Program (MN FACE)  ...
    2004/02/06 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 12-year-old female (victim) died from injuries sustained when the tractor she was operating overturned. On the day of the incident, she was helping her father haul large bales from a farm field. Two flatbed wagons with bale racks were used to haul the bales and were hooked behind one tractor. Her father used the other tractor equipped with a bale ...
  • School Custodian Dies From Blood Clots After Fall From Ladder
    School Custodian Dies From Blood Clots After Fall From Ladder
    Michigan Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (Project) (MIFACE)  ...
    2004/02/05 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On Friday, February 21, 2003, a 39-year-old substitute school custodian fell attempting to change a burned-out light bulb located 16 feet high on the back wall of an auditorium stage at approximately 1:30 p.m. When he fell, he was working alone. He called 911 on his cell phone. He told those who arrived to help that he had fallen from the second st ...
  • Hispanic Painter Dies after Falling from a New House Roof
    Hispanic Painter Dies after Falling from a New House Roof
    Wisconsin Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (Wisconsin FACE)  ...
    2004/02/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 43 year-old Hispanic painter (the victim) fell from a roof while painting the exterior of a two-story home under construction. The victim was employed by a painting company that was contracted to paint the house. The company had worked at the site for two days prior to the incident, but the victim was not scheduled to work there on that day. When ...
  • Hispanic Pipe Layer Dies After Being Struck by Excavator Track Hoe Bucket on Construction Site South Carolina FACE 200312
    Hispanic Pipe Layer Dies After Being Struck by Excavator (Track Hoe) Bucket on Construction Site - South Carolina: FACE 2003-12
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    2004/01/23 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On May 29, 2003, a 23-year-old male Hispanic pipe layer (the victim) died after being struck by the bucket teeth of an excavator (track hoe). The victim, and a crew of four other workers were installing concrete drain pipe alongside a public roadway. The excavator operator was reportedly in the process of extending the trench for the accommodation ...
    Public Domain
  • Truck Driver Dies during Payloader Crushing Incident
    Truck Driver Dies during Payloader Crushing Incident
    New York State Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Program (NY FACE)  ...
    2004/01/17 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On June 12th, 2003, a 41-year-old truck driver was delivering cardboard sludge to a recycling plant that manufactures bedding for dairy cows when he was fatally crushed between the tailgate of his truck and the rear of a payloader. He had completed dumping the cardboard waste product onto an outdoor unloading pad, and pulled a short distance away t ...
  • Farmer Dies When He Was Pinned Between the Tractor Seat and a Tree in a Ditch Near His Soybean Field
    Farmer Dies When He Was Pinned Between the Tractor Seat and a Tree in a Ditch Near His Soybean Field
    Michigan Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (Project) (MIFACE)  ...
    2004/01/10 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On June 14, 2003, a 57-year-old male farmer was killed when the Model 220 Belaris tractor he was driving entered a ditch on the north side of this soybean field and he was pinned between the tractor seat and a tree in the ditch. MIFACE learned of this incident from a newspaper clipping. On July 10, 2003, MIFACE researchers visited the incident site ...
  • 18YearOld Dies After Being Entangled in a Portable Mortar Mixer South Carolina FACE 200313
    18-Year-Old Dies After Being Entangled in a Portable Mortar Mixer - South Carolina: FACE 2003-13
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    2004/01/07 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On May 15, 2003, an 18-year-old laborer (the victim) died after becoming entangled in a portable mortar mixer. The victim was cleaning the mixer at the end of his shift at a residential construction site to prepare it for the following day while a co-worker was brushing down the recently laid brick wall nearby. A painter working near the victim hea ...
    Public Domain
  • Massachusetts Fatal Injuries at Work 2001 Update
    Massachusetts Fatal Injuries at Work 2001 Update
    2004/01/01 | 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 ...
  • Irrigation System Serviceman Electrocuted
    Irrigation System Serviceman Electrocuted
    Davis, Arthur W. ;
    Hetzler, William E.
    2003/12/30 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 55-year-old irrigation systems repairman was killed when he made contact with live wires while working on a booster pump in a center-point pivot irrigation system. The victim was standing above ground level on the system's metal bracing when he made contact with energized wires. A co-worker and a passing motorist saw sparks from the victim's loca ...
  • Machine Operator Dies After Becoming Caught in a Shirt Pressing Machine Massachusetts
    Machine Operator Dies After Becoming Caught in a Shirt Pressing Machine - Massachusetts
    Massachusetts Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Project (Massachusetts FACE)  ...
    2003/12/30 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On February 26, 2002, a 44-year-old female machine operator (the victim) was fatally injured when she became caught in the shirt pressing machine she was operating. The victim reached down into an opening in the loading table, became stuck, and called to a co-employee for help. While the co-employee was attempting to help the victim, the shirt pres ...
  • Lineman Killed After Being Struck by a Car in Washington State
    Lineman Killed After Being Struck by a Car in Washington State
    Washington (State). Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (WA FACE)  ...
    2003/12/30 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On July 25, 2000, a 33-year-old male journeyman lineman died, and a co-worker was injured, after they were struck by a car that drove through a utility construction work zone that was beside the road. The utility lineman (the fatal victim) and the injured co-worker were working with a team of county public utility workers to frame and install a new ...
  • A machine operator died when caught in a plastic injection molding machine
    A machine operator died when caught in a plastic injection molding machine
    Cierpich, Hank ;
    Harrison, Robert
    2003/12/22 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 29-year-old Hispanic male machine operator died when caught between the injector and the housing of a plastic injection molding machine. Evidence suggests the victim was performing maintenance and reached into the machine while it was running. According to the employer, the victim's duties did not include machine maintenance. The victim had not c ...
  • Fatality Narrative Bulldozer Operator Killed in Rollover on Icy Slope
    Fatality Narrative: Bulldozer Operator Killed in Rollover on Icy Slope
    Washington (State). Department of Labor and Industries
    2003/12/17 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On May 14, 2003, an operating engineer was killed when the bulldozer he was operating slid on ice, overturned, and came to rest at the bottom of a 150-foot embankment. The 54-year old victim, a member of the International Union of Operating Engineers, was employed by a construction firm that was building a road through the mountains. At the time of ...
  • Farmer Killed When Kicked by Horse
    Farmer Killed When Kicked by Horse
    Wisconsin Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (Wisconsin FACE)  ...
    2003/12/16 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On November 9, 2002, a 32-year-old male farmer died after being kicked in the chest and head by a horse. He was alone in the pen with four horses while currying one of the horses in a poorly lit area of the barn. The horse he was currying, had injured both back legs in a fence. When the victim failed to return to the house within an hour, the victi ...
  • Farmer Dies When Pinned Between Arm and Frame of a Skid Steer Loader
    Farmer Dies When Pinned Between Arm and Frame of a Skid Steer Loader
    Wisconsin Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (Wisconsin FACE)  ...
    2003/12/13 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On August 14, 2002, a 73 year-old dairy farmer (victim) was pinned between the bucket arm of a skid steer loader and the machine frame. He was changing a fork attachment to the bucket on the loader while standing in front of the loader, lowering the arms without being seated in the cab area. From birth he had been blind in one eye and lost some vis ...
  • Truck Driver Killed when Struck by Laminated Veneer Beams Falling from a Forklift
    Truck Driver Killed when Struck by Laminated Veneer Beams Falling from a Forklift
    New York State Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Program (NY FACE)  ...
    2003/12/11 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On May 20, 2002, a 34 year-old male truck driver (the victim), who was employed by a wood products facility, sustained fatal injuries as a result of being struck by a load of laminated veneer beams which fell from a forklift. On the morning of the accident, the victim was assisting a forklift operator loading a unit of four laminated veneer support ...
  • Millwright Killed When Aerial Work Platform Tipped Over
    Millwright Killed When Aerial Work Platform Tipped Over
    New York State Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Program (NY FACE)  ...
    2003/12/11 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On June 4, 2003, a 49 year-old male millwright employed at a magnetic powder manufacturing company sustained fatal injuries when an aerial work platform (an extensible articulating boom lift) he was operating tipped over. On the day of the incident, the victim and a co-worker operated the lift that was leased from a local leasing company to perform ...
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