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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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  • Toolbox Talk Guide Excavation Worker Killed by Flying Rigging When Hook Fails
    Toolbox Talk Guide: Excavation Worker Killed by Flying Rigging When Hook Fails
    Oregon Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (Program) (OR-FACE)
    2014/09/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    INSTRUCTIONS: Hold the guide with this side facing you and the other side facing your crew. Then read the story. Our safety talk today is about a 40- year-old pipe layer who died after being struck in the head by a hook on a failed towline. The quick coupler attachment on the track hoe was modified with a latched hook to make rigging easier. The pi ...
  • Toolbox Talk Guide Load of Lumber Shifts and Falls on Construction Worker
    Toolbox Talk Guide: Load of Lumber Shifts and Falls on Construction Worker
    Oregon Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (Program) (OR-FACE)
    2014/09/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    INSTRUCTIONS: Hold the guide with this side facing you and the other side facing your crew. Then read the story. Our safety talk today is about a 32-year-old framer from another company who died when a load of lumber fell on him. He was on a ladder to access a stairwell hole to the second level of a house while a rough terrain forklift was lifting ...
  • Toolbox Talk Guide Mechanic Killed by Excavator Bucket
    Toolbox Talk Guide: Mechanic Killed by Excavator Bucket
    Oregon Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (Program) (OR-FACE)
    2014/09/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    INSTRUCTIONS: Hold the guide with this side facing you and the other side facing your crew. Then read the story. Our safety talk today is about a 47-year-old mechanic who was killed when an excavator bucket crushed him. The conveyor on a rock crusher had stopped, so the mechanic stood on the conveyor to attach a chain to lift it for repair. The exc ...
  • Construction Fatality Narrative Inexperienced Framer Falls 22 Feet from Upper Floor 2014
    Construction Fatality Narrative: Inexperienced Framer Falls 22 Feet from Upper Floor [2014]
    Oregon Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (Program) (OR-FACE)
    2014/09/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    During 2000-2009 70% of commercial fishing deaths off the US West Coast were caused by drowning. Dungeness crab fisheries had the highest number of fatalities with a rate of 310 per 100,000 full-time equivalent workers. Falls overboard accounted for 24% of all fatalities. None of the victims of falls overboard were wearing personal flotation device ...
  • Laborer Dies after Falling Through 40Foot High Roof of Recycling Facility
    Laborer Dies after Falling Through 40-Foot High Roof of Recycling Facility
    New Jersey Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (NJ FACE)  ...
    2014/08/26 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 50-year-old male laborer fell through the roof of a large recycling facility. The incident occurred on a flat roof approximately 40 feet above the floor of the recycling plant. The victim fell 30 feet and hit an air compressor on a raised platform (approximately 10 feet off the ground). On the day of the incident, the victim and two other workers ...
  • Treecare Worker is Crushed by Cut Tree Section During Storm Damage Cleanup
    Tree-care Worker is Crushed by Cut Tree Section During Storm Damage Cleanup
    New Jersey Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (NJ FACE)  ...
    2014/08/26 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 59-year-old tree-care worker was killed after a section of a tree he was cutting fell on top of him. The incident occurred on a residential property in a heavily-wooded area in northern NJ. On the day of the incident, the victim and two other workers were conducting storm-damage cleanup on several trees, some still standing, some down. The victim ...
  • Operator Dies after Excavator Tips Over the Side of a Bridge into River
    Operator Dies after Excavator Tips Over the Side of a Bridge into River
    Clark, Randy ;
    Jalonen, Eric
    2014/08/07 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On January 15, 2008 a 62-year-old equipment operator was fatally injured when the hydraulic excavator he was operating tipped over the side of a bridge, falling 60 feet into the river below. The operator was working on the demolition of the bridge by removing cut concrete slabs from the bridge deck. He was using the hydraulic excavator which was eq ...
  • Hispanic Laborer is Crushed by Gantry Roller Press While Retrieving a Dropped Hammer
    Hispanic Laborer is Crushed by Gantry Roller Press While Retrieving a Dropped Hammer
    Kentucky Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (KY FACE)  ...
    2014/08/06 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    March 11, 2014 at 8:20 a.m. a 31- year- old Hispanic laborer working on a gantry roller press dropped a hammer he was using to tap the trusses into place. As the victim bent down to retrieve the hammer, the three other employees working with him did not see him and started the press. As the press came down the line, the victim raised up and became ...
  • Farmer and his employee died after collapse and attempted rescue in manure storage pit
    Farmer and his employee died after collapse and attempted rescue in manure storage pit
    Leonard, Stephanie
    2014/08/04 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On a spring afternoon in 2005, a 52-year-old farmer and his 23-year-old hired hand were emptying manure from the pit beneath a cattle confinement shed at the farmer's homestead. After the job was finished at about 15:30, the farmer "climbed down" the vertical manure transfer pump that was in the pit, presumably to retrieve a chain that had fallen i ...
  • Fatality Narrative Ironworker Falls 72 Feet from Mast Scaffold Slideshow
    Fatality Narrative: Ironworker Falls 72 Feet from Mast Scaffold - Slideshow
    Washington (State). Department of Labor and Industries
    2014/07/31 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On January 6, 2014, a 34-year-old ironworker died when he fell from a mast scaffold. The incident happened at a multi-story commercial building construction project site. The victim's employer is a provider of steel erection services and was a subcontractor on this project. The victim had worked as an ironworker for 10 years. He had been with his e ...
  • WorkRelated Fatalities in North Carolina 2011 and FiveYear Trend 20072011
    Work-Related Fatalities in North Carolina, 2011 and Five-Year Trend (2007-2011)
    North Carolina. Department of Health and Human Services
    2014/07/24 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    Workplace fatalities are rare; when they do occur, they are typically during a worker's most productive years and generally represent the impact of high risk jobs or unsafe working conditions. This report describes work-related fatalities in North Carolina during 2007 to 2011. This analysis will help to identify the most high-risk industries and oc ...
  • Narracin de Fatalidades Herrero Cae de un Andamio Sobre Mstil Desde 72 Pies
    Narración de Fatalidades: Herrero Cae de un Andamio Sobre Mástil Desde 72 Pies
    Departamento de Trabajo e Industrias del Estado de Washington
    2014/07/22 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    El 6 de enero de 2014, un herrero de 34 años falleció tras caer de un andamio sobre mástil. El accidente tuvo lugar en el sitio de un proyecto para la construcción de un edificio comercial de varias plantas. El empleador de la víctima es un proveedor de servicios de construcción con acero y era un subcontratista de este proyecto. La víctima había t ...
  • Fatality Narrative Ironworker Falls 72 Feet from Mast Scaffold
    Fatality Narrative: Ironworker Falls 72 Feet from Mast Scaffold
    Washington (State). Department of Labor and Industries
    2014/07/22 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On January 6, 2014, a 34-year-old ironworker died when he fell from a mast scaffold. The incident happened at a multi-story commercial building construction project site. The victim's employer is a provider of steel erection services and was a subcontractor on this project. The victim had worked as an ironworker for 10 years. He had been with his e ...
  • Restaurant Coowner Fatally Crushed by a Dumbwaiter Car
    Restaurant Co-owner Fatally Crushed by a Dumbwaiter Car
    New York State Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Program (NY FACE)  ...
    2014/07/17 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On June 23, 2012, a 30 year-old co-owner of a Thai restaurant (victim) was fatally crushed by a dumbwaiter car in the basement kitchen of his restaurant. The dumbwaiter was a wire-rope type lift or elevator for transporting household goods between the first floor food preparation area and the basement kitchen. There was a hoistway opening on each f ...
  • Collapsed roof trusses kill carpenter foreman
    Collapsed roof trusses kill carpenter foreman
    Oregon Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (Program) (OR-FACE)  ...
    2014/07/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 33-year old carpenter foreman was killed when the roof truss system he and his crew were installing collapsed. The victim was hired to be the foreman for a project to construct a residential shop building. A few days before the incident the crew began framing, sheeting and bracing the external four walls. On the day of the incident, vertical trus ...
  • Occupational Fatalities in Oregon Annual Report 2012
    Occupational Fatalities in Oregon: Annual Report 2012
    Oregon Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (Program) (OR-FACE)
    2014/07/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    In 2012, Oregon Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation recorded 46 fatal occupational incidents with 47 worker deaths. The number represents a rate of 2.6 fatalities per 100,000 employed workers in the civilian labor force in Oregon. The national worker fatality rate in 2012 was 3.4 per 100,000 full-time equivalent workers. The following notabl ...
  • Auto Technician Mistakes HandicappedAccessible Accelerator Pedal for Brake Pedal and Fatally Pins CoWorker
    Auto Technician Mistakes Handicapped-Accessible Accelerator Pedal for Brake Pedal and Fatally Pins Co-Worker
    Kentucky Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (KY FACE)  ...
    2014/06/30 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    Monday, January 6, 2014, a 50-year-old master technician and married father was sitting at his desk in the service bay area of a dealership, with his back to the service area, when an auto technician mistook a handicapped-accessible accelerator pedal for the brake pedal causing a Lincoln MKX to travel forward. The vehicle struck the desk chair the ...
  • Laborer Died Due to Hypertensive and Arteriosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease with a Contributing Factor of Hyperthermia
    Laborer Died Due to Hypertensive and Arteriosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease with a Contributing Factor of Hyperthermia
    Michigan Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (Project) (MIFACE)  ...
    2014/06/25 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    In the summer of 2013, a male general laborer in his 60s died due to hypertensive and arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease while working outdoors on a hot day. The decedent was conducting grounds keeping work at a machinery moving, warehousing and transportation facility. He worked for several hours in the morning cutting tree limbs. When enough ...
  • Municipal Mechanic Fatally Injured When Crushed Between a Skidsteer Loaders Frame and Bucket Massachusetts
    Municipal Mechanic Fatally Injured When Crushed Between a Skid-steer Loader's Frame and Bucket - Massachusetts
    Massachusetts Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Project (Massachusetts FACE)  ...
    2014/06/23 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On November 30, 2012, a 55-year-old male municipal mechanic (victim) for a water department was fatally injured while troubleshooting a malfunctioning skid-steer loader. The victim was standing facing the loader between the loader's raised bucket and the frame when the raised bucket came down, crushing the victim against the loader's frame. The vic ...
  • WorkRelated Burns in Michigan Second Annual Report January 2010 December 2010
    Work-Related Burns in Michigan: Second Annual Report (January 2010 - December 2010)
    Kica J ;
    Rosenman, Kenneth D.
    2014/06/19 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    Michigan State University's Occupational and Environmental Medicine Division compiles data on work-related burns in the state of Michigan. This report is the second annual report on occupational burns in Michigan. The key findings are as follows: In 2010, the number of work-related burns in Michigan based on multiple reporting sources was 1,908 whi ...
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