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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 1921 - 1940 of 3531 results
  • SeventeenYearOld Lifeguard Dies After Falling into a Nearly Empty Swimming Pool Pennsylvania FACE 200017
    Seventeen-Year-Old Lifeguard Dies After Falling into a Nearly Empty Swimming Pool - Pennsylvania: FACE 2000-17
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    2000/12/19 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On May 27, 2000, a 17-year-old female lifeguard (the victim) died after she fell into a nearly empty swimming pool. On the day of the incident, a crew of four, including the victim, two other lifeguards, and the pool engineer were preparing the pool for the new season. One lifeguard and the pool engineer were working in the filter room while the vi ...
    Public Domain
  • A 17year old laborer for a boat dock construction company drowned while attempting to swim approximately 35 yards to shore from a construction barge
    A 17-year old laborer for a boat dock construction company drowned while attempting to swim approximately 35 yards to shore from a construction barge.
    Oklahoma Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (OKFACE)  ...
    2000/12/08 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 17 year-old laborer for a boat dock construction company drowned on June 8, 2000 while attempting to swim approximately 35 yards from a construction barge to the shore of the freshwater lake in which the crew had been constructing a new boat dock. The victim drowned in water approximately 15 feet deep after repeated attempts to pull him to safety ...
  • FourteenFoot Fall Kills Ironworker at a Massachusetts Construction Site
    Fourteen-Foot Fall Kills Ironworker at a Massachusetts Construction Site
    Massachusetts Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Project (Massachusetts FACE)  ...
    2000/12/07 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On January 7, 1999 a 30-year-old male ironworker died of injuries sustained in a fall at a Massachusetts construction site. The victim was walking a beam that had bolt kegs attached to it and lost his balance, falling approximately fourteen feet to the ground below. A connector working on the second level immediately yelled for help. A call was pla ...
  • Logger Fatally Injured by Falling Tree
    Logger Fatally Injured by Falling Tree
    Kentucky Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (KY FACE)  ...
    2000/12/06 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 73-year-old male self-employed logger (the victim) was killed when he presumably was struck on the head by a branch of a falling tree. He and his son, the only other logger on site, had finished a break and had been working approximately 30 minutes when the incident occurred. The son was operating a skidder attached to the base of a tree that had ...
  • Massachusetts Foundry Manager Dies When Caught in Die Casting Machine
    Massachusetts Foundry Manager Dies When Caught in Die Casting Machine
    Massachusetts Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Project (Massachusetts FACE)  ...
    2000/12/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On December 22, 1999, a 36-year-old male second shift foundry manager (the victim) was fatally injured while cleaning the die of a cold chamber die cast machine. The foundry's quality control inspector had notified the victim that one of the die cast machines was producing castings with a blemish on the exterior surface. The victim entered the mach ...
  • Farm Youth Dies After Falling From And Being Run Over By Tractor in Minnesota
    Farm Youth Dies After Falling From And Being Run Over By Tractor in Minnesota
    Minnesota Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Program (MN FACE)  ...
    2000/11/26 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    An 18-year-old male farm youth (victim) died of injuries sustained after he fell from and was run over by a tractor. He was driving a four wheel drive tractor equipped with an enclosed cab on a public road. A large machine known as a digger was hooked to the tractor's drawbar. The victim was driving the tractor south on a public road approaching an ...
  • A Construction Flag Person Dies After Being Backed Over by a Truck
    A Construction Flag Person Dies After Being Backed Over by a Truck
    California Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (CA/FACE)  ...
    2000/11/24 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 27-year-old male construction flag person died when a tractor-trailer side dump truck backed over him. The truck had just entered the #1 lane (closest to the median), which had been divided off from the rest of the lanes with tubular markers and was backing into position to dump a load of dirt onto the median. The decedent had just allowed the du ...
  • A Construction Inspector Dies After Being Backed Over by a Tenwheel Asphalt Dump Truck
    A Construction Inspector Dies After Being Backed Over by a Ten-wheel Asphalt Dump Truck
    California Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (CA/FACE)  ...
    2000/11/16 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 36-year-old male construction inspector for the county died when an asphalt dump truck backed over him. The truck was bringing hot asphalt to a new road being constructed in a new housing project. The decedent was wearing an orange reflective vest and hardhat at the time of the incident. The asphalt dump truck was greater than 2.5-ton capacity an ...
  • A Highway Worker Dies When Struck By a Speeding Vehicle While Picking Up Cones on an Interstate Highway
    A Highway Worker Dies When Struck By a Speeding Vehicle While Picking Up Cones on an Interstate Highway
    California Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (CA/FACE)  ...
    2000/11/15 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 27-year-old general laborer died when a speeding vehicle struck him as he picked up traffic cones at a construction site on an interstate highway. The speed limit on this interstate highway was 70 mph. The victim was in a man-bucket attached to the rear of a staked flatbed traffic control truck. This truck was traveling in reverse in the number t ...
  • Youth Farm Worker Pinned Under Overturned HorseDrawn Manure Sled
    Youth Farm Worker Pinned Under Overturned Horse-Drawn Manure Sled
    Wisconsin Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (Wisconsin FACE)  ...
    2000/11/03 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 16-year-old male farm worker (the victim) died when a horse-drawn sled loaded with manure overturned on him. The victim had driven the horses with the sled to a snow-covered hillside about a half-mile from the farmstead to spread the load of cow and horse manure. He was in the wooden box that was piled high with manure, using a pitchfork to throw ...
  • Lineman at Hydroelectric Utility was Asphyxiated when the Safety Rope Attached to his Harness Became Entangled in a Revolving Turbine Shaft
    Lineman at Hydroelectric Utility was Asphyxiated when the Safety Rope Attached to his Harness Became Entangled in a Revolving Turbine Shaft
    Anderson, Henry A. ;
    Hanrahan, Lawrence
    2000/11/03 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 34-year-old male lineman (the victim) died of asphyxiation when the safety rope attached to his harness became entangled in a revolving turbine shaft. The victim was employed as a lineman for the city's hydroelectric utility, and was inspecting a 75-year-old turbine that was idle following replacement of a dam. He was working with a co-worker in ...
  • Farmer Thrown from Tractor and Run Over by Hay Baler
    Farmer Thrown from Tractor and Run Over by Hay Baler
    Wisconsin Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (Wisconsin FACE)  ...
    2000/11/03 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 57-year-old male farmer (the victim) died when he was thrown from a tractor and run over by a hay baler. The incident occurred after the hay baler struck a cement culvert hidden in the tall grass while he was pulling the baler to a field across the road from the farmyard driveway. The tractor had an enclosed cab and a bucket seat without seatbelt ...
  • Florist Pinned Between Bucket of an Industrial Truck and Semi Trailer
    Florist Pinned Between Bucket of an Industrial Truck and Semi Trailer
    Wisconsin Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (Wisconsin FACE)  ...
    2000/11/02 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 36-year-old male florist (the victim) died after being pinned between the bucket of a bucket loader/forklift truck (loader) and the back of a semi trailer. The florist was co-owner of the retail floral shop on the street where the incident occurred. The loader was operated by an employee of an excavating company which was contracted to provide fo ...
  • Farmer Dies After Being Pinned Beneath The Header Of A Combine in Minnesota
    Farmer Dies After Being Pinned Beneath The Header Of A Combine in Minnesota
    Minnesota Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Program (MN FACE)  ...
    2000/11/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 37-year-old male farmer (victim) died after he was pinned beneath the header of a combine. The header was equipped with hydraulic cylinders to raise and lower it. Attached to one of the hydraulic cylinders was a mechanical safety stop. When the header was raised, the safety stop could be locked in position to prevent the header from being lowered ...
  • Machine Operator Falls from Order Picker
    Machine Operator Falls from Order Picker
    Hetzler, William E. ;
    Hirsh, Gary L.
    2000/10/24 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 30-year-old machine operator, at a furniture store warehouse, was killed when he fell approximately 14 feet from the operating platform of an electrically-powered Crown high-lift rider, commonly referred to as an order picker. When the incident happened, the victim was in the process of going to get a television set (in a box) from a storage shel ...
  • SixteenYearOld Mechanics Assistant Died After Being Run Over by the Rear Wheels of a Tub Grinder Connecticut FACE 200014
    Sixteen-Year-Old Mechanic's Assistant Died After Being Run Over by the Rear Wheels of a Tub Grinder - Connecticut: FACE 2000-14
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
    2000/10/20 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On March 13, 2000, a 16-year-old male mechanic's assistant (the victim) died after he was run over by the rear wheels of a trailer-mounted tub grinder (a machine used to grind large volumes of wood for waste disposal, reduction, and recycling). The victim was a high school student and had been working for the company, a tree removal, wood waste pro ...
    Public Domain
  • A window washer falls approximately 60 feet off a swing stage scaffold when one of the electric hoists fails
    A window washer falls approximately 60 feet off a swing stage scaffold when one of the electric hoists fails
    California Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (CA/FACE)  ...
    2000/10/18 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 32-year-old male window washer died when he fell approximately 60 feet from a swing stage scaffold when the center shaft of the electric hoist controlling the left side of the swing stage scaffold failed. The over speed secondary brake, an internal part of the hoist, also failed allowing the scaffold to drop to a vertical position. The decedent f ...
  • A 67year old maintenance worker for a feed and seed retail store was killed when he was crushed by a forklift that ran off a loading dock and overturned onto him
    A 67-year old maintenance worker for a feed and seed retail store was killed when he was crushed by a forklift that ran off a loading dock and overturned onto him.
    Oklahoma Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (OKFACE)  ...
    2000/10/14 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 67-year old maintenance worker died on February 28, 2000 from multiple crushing injuries received when he was pinned by a forklift that ran off a loading dock and overturned onto him. The victim was operating the forklift on a low-level loading dock that was not sloped. He dismounted the forklift to remove an empty pallet that was apparently jamm ...
  • A rancher was killed when he was crushed by a round hay bale
    A rancher was killed when he was crushed by a round hay bale.
    Oklahoma Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (OKFACE)  ...
    2000/10/14 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 44-year old rancher died on October 29, 1999 from suffocation and internal injuries received when he was crushed by a round hay bale that rolled out of the front-end loader bucket that was mounted on the tractor he was driving. The hay bale was estimated to weigh in excess of 1000 pounds. At the time of the incident, the victim was operating a tr ...
  • A General Laborer Dies When He Falls Into a Process Tank of Heated Nickel Acetate
    A General Laborer Dies When He Falls Into a Process Tank of Heated Nickel Acetate
    California Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (CA/FACE)  ...
    2000/10/10 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 31-year-old male general laborer died when he fell into a process tank of nickel acetate heated to approximately 180 degrees. The decedent, working as a general laborer, was in his assigned area performing a hose rinse to parts being removed from a process tank. Another employee asked the decedent for help in removing a ten-pound metal part from ...
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