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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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  • Preventing Illness from Pesticide Drift
    Preventing Illness from Pesticide Drift
    California. Department of Public Health
    2018/03/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    As the breadbasket for the United States, California has many communities and workplaces surrounded by agriculture. Workers can become ill when pesticide drifts onto workplaces after it is applied incorrectly. A new https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CCDPHP/DEODC/OHB/OPIPP/CDPH%20Document%20Library/Pesticide-Drift-Factsheet.pdf and https://www.cdph.c ...
  • Fatality Narrative Laborer Suffers Traumatic Brain Injury When Struck by Load Falling from Forklift
    Fatality Narrative: Laborer Suffers Traumatic Brain Injury When Struck by Load Falling from Forklift
    Washington (State). Department of Labor and Industries
    2018/02/27 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 37-year-old laborer at a potato packing plant suffered a severe traumatic brain injury when he was struck by a piece of metal falling from a load being moved by a forklift. The victim had been employed for four years as a general laborer at his employer's potato packing and shipping plant. On the day of the incident, the victim and another labore ...
  • Mechanic Fatally Injured When the Dump Truck Tire He Was Inflating Ruptures Massachusetts
    Mechanic Fatally Injured When the Dump Truck Tire He Was Inflating Ruptures - Massachusetts
    Massachusetts Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Project (Massachusetts FACE)  ...
    2018/02/26 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On August 13, 2015, a 38-year-old male mechanic (victim) was fatally injured while inflating a truck tire at the maintenance garage of a construction company. The truck was brought back to the company garage location when the driver noticed the truck was leaning to the right. As the victim was inflating the tire with low air pressure, the tire rupt ...
  • Trooper Crashes on Roadway While Responding to Reckless Driver Complaint Kentucky LEO 201602
    Trooper Crashes on Roadway While Responding to Reckless Driver Complaint - Kentucky: LEO 2016-02
    Lancaster, Jamie L. ;
    Moore, Paul H.
    2018/02/19 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On June 23, 2015, a 23-year-old state police trooper was fatally injured when he lost control of his vehicle in a curve and was struck by an oncoming tractor trailer. The trooper was responding to a complaint of a reckless driver whom Dispatch had advised was traveling ahead of him. Using his cell phone, the trooper called Dispatch to get an update ...
    Supporting Files
  • Fatality Narrative Skid Steer Loader Operator Crushed
    Fatality Narrative: Skid Steer Loader Operator Crushed
    Washington (State). Department of Labor and Industries
    2018/02/07 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 54-year-old skid steer loader operator died when he was pinned between the lift arms cross bar and the frame. The victim had 25 years' experience operating many types of equipment, including skid steer loaders. His employer was a site preparation subcontractor responsible for digging trenches for water pipes. He had been working at the job site f ...
  • MultiSource Surveillance for WorkRelated Crushing Injuries
    Multi-Source Surveillance for Work-Related Crushing Injuries
    Kica J ;
    Rosenman, Kenneth D.
    2018/02/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    Background: Work-related crushing injuries are serious but preventable. For 2013 through 2015, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' (BLS) Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (SOII) reported 1260 crushing injuries in Michigan. In 2013, Michigan initiated multi-data source surveillance of work-related crushing injuries. Methods: Records fro ...
    Peer Reviewed
  • Forklift Operator Dies When Crushed between Forklift Overhead Guard and Mast
    Forklift Operator Dies When Crushed between Forklift Overhead Guard and Mast
    Clark, Randy ;
    Rappin, Christina
    2018/01/22 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    In May of 2012, a 61-year-old longshore worker operating a forklift died when he was crushed between a forklift's mast and the operator's cab overhead guard. The incident occurred when he left the forklift operator's seat and climbed over the operator's console and stood on the dash between the mast and the overhead guard so that he could presumabl ...
  • Fatality Narrative Mechanic Crushed by Bin Destacker
    Fatality Narrative: Mechanic Crushed by Bin Destacker
    Washington (State). Department of Labor and Industries
    2017/12/14 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    In December 2014, a 34-year-old mechanic doing maintenance on a bin destacker at a fruit packing plant died when part of the machinery came down, crushing him. He had worked for his employer, a grower and packer of tree fruits, for nearly a year. On the day of the incident, he was working alone changing a hydraulic cylinder on a fully automated bin ...
  • Laborer Injured in a Fall When a Portable Platform Ladder Overturned Massachusetts
    Laborer Injured in a Fall When a Portable Platform Ladder Overturned - Massachusetts
    Massachusetts Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Project (Massachusetts FACE)  ...
    2017/12/04 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On December 12, 2015 a 68-year-old male senior laborer (victim) was seriously injured in a fall while working from a platform ladder. The victim, employed by a municipality, and a co-worker were dusting crown molding in a meeting room inside city hall. The victim had finished dusting a section of molding and the ladder needed to be moved to continu ...
  • Construction worker died after falling 2025 feet from a pumpjack scaffold
    Construction worker died after falling 20-25 feet from a pump-jack scaffold
    Oregon Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (Program) (OR-FACE)  ...
    2017/12/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 46-year-old owner of a small residential siding company died from injuries sustained when he fell approximately 20-25 feet from a pump-jack scaffold platform onto a concrete slab. The company was a subcontractor hired to install siding on a newly constructed apartment building. The work was being performed using pump-jack scaffolding. On the day ...
  • Paramedic is Struck and Killed While Responding to a Call
    Paramedic is Struck and Killed While Responding to a Call
    Kentucky Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (KY FACE)  ...
    2017/11/14 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On Friday, November 6, 2015, a 40-year-old male paramedic was responding to a call when the ambulance struck another vehicle. The ambulance pulled onto a side street and the paramedic exited the passenger side of the ambulance and crossed the street to assess damage to the other vehicle. Returning to the ambulance, he stepped out into the street fr ...
  • Officer Struck by a Motorhome While Establishing Temporary Traffic Control on Interstate Tennessee LEO 201601
    Officer Struck by a Motorhome While Establishing Temporary Traffic Control on Interstate - Tennessee: LEO 2016-01
    Moore, Melanie L. ;
    Lancaster, Jamie L.
    2017/11/07 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On May 10, 2014, a 25-year-old police officer was fatally injured when he was struck by a motorhome and drug under the trailer it was pulling on a four-lane interstate highway. The officer had responded to a jackknifed and overturned pickup/trailer combination that was blocking an entrance ramp to the interstate northbound lanes. To assist with tra ...
    Supporting Files
  • Fatality Narrative Laborer Falls 12 Feet Through Barn Roof
    Fatality Narrative: Laborer Falls 12 Feet Through Barn Roof
    Washington (State). Department of Labor and Industries
    2017/11/06 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    In September of 2016, a 54-year-old construction laborer fell 12 feet to his death when he stepped on a portion of the metal roof of a dairy cow barn and it gave way. It was his first day on the job working for his employer, a small general contractor. Investigators were unable to determine his construction work experience. A dairy farm owner hired ...
  • A 19YearOld Landscape Laborer Dies When Entangled in Auger after Entering the Hopper of a Bark Blower Truck
    A 19-Year-Old Landscape Laborer Dies When Entangled in Auger after Entering the Hopper of a Bark Blower Truck
    Clark, Randy ;
    Rappin, Christina
    2017/10/20 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    .In July of 2014, a 19-year-old landscape laborer died after entering the hopper of a bark blower truck and becoming entangled in its rotating auger system. The victim was employed by a company that is a supplier of commercial and residential bark, mulch, and other landscaping materials. The day of the incident was his second day on the job. He had ...
  • A Landscaper Dies from Asphyxia When Compressed by Palm Fronds
    A Landscaper Dies from Asphyxia When Compressed by Palm Fronds
    Cierpich, Hank ;
    Harrison, Robert
    2017/10/12 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A landscaper died while trimming a palm tree in the back yard of a homeowner. Neither the victim nor the landscaper who hired him were certified tree trimmers. The palm tree was approximately 60 feet high. The victim was about halfway up the tree when the skirt of dead palm fronds directly above him broke loose and slid down, compressing him agains ...
  • A Custodian Dies When He Falls Off a Step Ladder
    A Custodian Dies When He Falls Off a Step Ladder
    Cierpich, Hank ;
    Harrison, Robert
    2017/10/12 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 68-year-old custodian for a school district died from head injuries when he fell off a seven-foot step ladder while washing windows at a middle school gymnasium. The tops of the windows were approximately 15 feet from ground level. He was part of a three-man maintenance crew preparing the school grounds for the beginning of the school year. The f ...
  • School Custodian Struck and Killed by Pickup Truck on School Grounds While Performing Crossing Guard Duty
    School Custodian Struck and Killed by Pick-up Truck on School Grounds While Performing Crossing Guard Duty
    Kentucky Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (KY FACE)  ...
    2017/10/06 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On Wednesday, April 27, 2016, a 69-year-old male custodian (victim) was preparing to assist with after-school traffic control duties at a rural high school. He crossed the street to reach his cross-guard positioning where he was to perform cross-guard duties, then abruptly backtracked and stepped into the path of an oncoming pickup truck. The truck ...
  • Fatality Narrative Farm Laborer Dies When UTV Struck by Vehicle
    Fatality Narrative: Farm Laborer Dies When UTV Struck by Vehicle
    Washington (State). Department of Labor and Industries
    2017/10/05 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    In April 2016, a 35-year-old wheat farm laborer died when the Utility Task Vehicle (UTV) he was operating on a state highway was struck by a motor vehicle. On the day of the incident, the victim and another worker took their employer's UTV (also known as a side-by-side) to check for flooded farm fields. The six-wheel, three-seat UTV was equipped wi ...
  • Two Construction Workers Fatally Crushed when Cement Formwork Collapsed
    Two Construction Workers Fatally Crushed when Cement Formwork Collapsed
    New York State Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Program (NY FACE)  ...
    2017/09/26 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On December 2, 2013, a 53-year-old construction laborer (Victim I) and a 50-year-old concrete pump operator (Victim II) suffered fatal crushing injuries when formwork collapsed during concrete placement at a construction site. The concrete piece being constructed was an aqueduct mockup. On the morning of the incident, the workers were pouring concr ...
  • Mechanic Electrocuted when a Mobile Light Tower Contacted Powerline
    Mechanic Electrocuted when a Mobile Light Tower Contacted Powerline
    New York State Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Program (NY FACE)  ...
    2017/09/26 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    In May 2012, a 47-year-old maintenance mechanic of a paving company was electrocuted at a road construction site when a mobile light tower contacted a powerline. The paving company was contracted by the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) to build a roundabout intersection and reconstruct the roads leading to the roundabout. On the ...
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