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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 Tree Trimmers Die When Struck By Errant Semi TractorTrailer
    Two Tree Trimmers Die When Struck By Errant Semi Tractor-Trailer
    Kentucky Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (KY FACE)  ...
    2011/10/27 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    One spring morning in 2010, three male tree trimmers set up a work site in a highway intersection at the base of a mountain. As one tree trimmer removed equipment from the truck, two other tree trimmers, 21- and 32-years old, posted signage in the intersection. The two tree trimmers were located on the shoulder of the highway. A semi tractor-traile ...
  • Tub Refinisher Died Due to Methylene Chloride Overexposure While Stripping a Bathtub
    Tub Refinisher Died Due to Methylene Chloride Overexposure While Stripping a Bathtub
    Michigan Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (Project) (MIFACE)  ...
    2011/10/26 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    In the winter of 2010, a 52-year-old male tub re-glazer died due to overexposure to methylene chloride (MC) vapor while stripping a bathtub in an apartment bathroom using Tal-Strip II Aircraft Coating Remover (Tal-Strip II). Methylene chloride was the primary ingredient of the aircraft-grade Tal-Strip II (60%-100%). The work process involved pourin ...
  • Immigrant Roofer Struck by a Bag of Gravel that Fell from a Roof Massachusetts
    Immigrant Roofer Struck by a Bag of Gravel that Fell from a Roof - Massachusetts
    Massachusetts Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Project (Massachusetts FACE)  ...
    2011/10/26 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On November 13, 2010 a 39-year-old male roofer (victim) was part of a crew repairing the roof of a building. The victim was standing on the ground when he was struck by a bag loaded with gravel from the building's roof. The bag, which weighed approximately 40 pounds, was being lowered from the roof to the ground using a portable manual rope pulley ...
  • Methylene Chloride Causes Death of Three MI Bathtub Refinishers
    Methylene Chloride Causes Death of Three MI Bathtub Refinishers
    Michigan Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (Project) (MIFACE)
    2011/10/26 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    Since 2006, three bathtub refinishers have died in Michigan and since 2000 at least 13 refinishers have died nationwide due to overexposure to methylene chloride-based strippers. In Michigan, two refinishers were using Tal-Strip II Aircraft Coating Remover and one refinisher was using KleanStrip Premium Stripper. Tal-Strip II contains 60%-100% meth ...
  • Fatality Narrative Framer Falls When Floor Section Collapses
    Fatality Narrative: Framer Falls When Floor Section Collapses
    Washington (State). Department of Labor and Industries
    2011/10/11 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On December 22, 2009, a framer was killed when a floor section collapsed causing him to fall 10 feet to the floor below. The 39-year-old victim worked for a framing contractor. He and three co-workers were framing a three-story single-family house. The lead framer was cutting out a balcony that would overlook the floor below. He had cut a section o ...
  • Volunteer Mowing Grass Pinned by Overturned Tractor
    Volunteer Mowing Grass Pinned by Overturned Tractor
    Michigan Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (Project) (MIFACE)  ...
    2011/10/07 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    In the Summer of 2010, a male volunteer in his 70s was killed while mowing grass for a youth organization's camp using a tricycle-type Allis Chalmers Model L59AC farm tractor, retrofitted with an after-market, home-installed underbelly power rotary mower attachment. The tractor overturned to the side on an approximately 30-degree hill and pinned hi ...
  • Worker Crushed Under Car That Dislodged from Tow Straps
    Worker Crushed Under Car That Dislodged from Tow Straps
    Michigan Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (Project) (MIFACE)  ...
    2011/10/06 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    In the Summer of 2010, a 19-year-old male worker at a towing and junk car removal firm died when a car slipped or fell off of a tow truck's boom arm tow straps while he was underneath the car. The night prior to the incident, one of the firm's tow truck drivers, using an extendable boom hook and chain (also known as a sling or belt lift) truck, del ...
  • An Orchard Caretaker Dies When He is Pulled into a Wood Chipper
    An Orchard Caretaker Dies When He is Pulled into a Wood Chipper
    Cierpich, Hank ;
    Harrison, Robert
    2011/09/20 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    An orchard caretaker was pulled into a wood chipper after he used his foot to push cut brush and branches into the machine. The wood chipper was not equipped with a feed table that could prevent contact with moving blades. The victim had never received any formal training on how to use a wood chipper safely. The CA/FACE investigator determined that ...
  • Fatality Narrative Ranch Worker Dies When ATV Rolls Over
    Fatality Narrative: Ranch Worker Dies When ATV Rolls Over
    Washington (State). Department of Labor and Industries
    2011/09/19 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On July 21, 2008, a ranch worker died when the four-wheeled all-terrain vehicle (ATV) he was operating rolled over. The victim was employed at a cattle ranch where he had worked for over a year. He was an experienced ATV operator and competitive motorcycle racer. He was driving the ATV to access irrigation wheel lines and move them. He was on a rou ...
  • A Plumber Dies After the Collapse of a Trench Wall
    A Plumber Dies After the Collapse of a Trench Wall
    New York State Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Program (NY FACE)  ...
    2011/09/14 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    In May 2007, a 46 year old self-employed plumbing contractor (the victim) died when the unprotected trench he was working in collapsed. The victim was an independent plumber subcontracted to install a sewer line connection to the sewer main, part of a general contractor project to install a new sanitary sewer for an existing single family residence ...
  • Farmer Died When He Fell From a Ladder
    Farmer Died When He Fell From a Ladder
    Michigan Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (Project) (MIFACE)  ...
    2011/09/13 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    In the Winter of 2010, an 83-year-old male farmer died when he fell from a ladder in a cattle pen while he was replacing boards for a heifer pen. The decedent had noted that the nominal dimension oak lumber (2x4s, 2x6s) boards on the fence between the concrete cattle courtyard and the heifer pen "gave way" when pushed against. The fence was located ...
  • OutofState Electrician Electrocuted While Restoring Service at a Personal Residence
    Out-of-State Electrician Electrocuted While Restoring Service at a Personal Residence
    Kentucky Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (KY FACE)  ...
    2011/09/08 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On a late summer day in 2008, a 29 year-old male lineman (decedent) was electrocuted while restoring service to a residence. The lineman and three other (out-of-state) employees assisted a local Kentucky power company in restoring power due to outages because of a severe wind storm. The decedent was wearing insulated electrical gloves and sleeves. ...
  • True Stories You Might Be Strong but Are You This Strong
    True Stories: You Might Be Strong but Are You This Strong?
    Washington (State). Department of Labor and Industries
    2011/09/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    Many Washington truck drivers discover the hard and painful way that they are no match for the power a worn bungee cord can have when it snaps. Taking time to check and replace worn bungees is worth it when compared to the types of injuries truckers have sustained from worn bungees or straps. One 43-year-old flatbed truck driver had already tarped ...
  • Fatality Narrative Contractor Killed When Boom Truck Crashes
    Fatality Narrative: Contractor Killed When Boom Truck Crashes
    Washington (State). Department of Labor and Industries
    2011/08/30 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On July 27, 2009, a framing contractor died when he crashed his truck. The 57-year-old victim was the owner of a log home construction business. He was driving a boom truck carrying finished logs to a job site when the truck's brakes failed. He lost control of the truck which then left the road and rolled, ejecting him. He was not wearing a seatbel ...
  • Solid Waste Compost Facility Worker Dies Body Is Recovered in Digester Tube Tennessee FACE 201001
    Solid Waste Compost Facility Worker Dies, Body Is Recovered in Digester Tube - Tennessee: FACE 2010-01
    Lutz, Virginia ;
    Yorgason, Andrew
    2011/08/26 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On July 22, 2010, a 50-year-old worker was found deceased in a compost digester tube at a solid waste facility. The victim worked as a picker on a tipping floor. His duties were to separate compostable from non-compostable trash that was unloaded onto the tipping floor by residential and commercial waste haulers. Once the trash was separated, the c ...
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  • Trabajador hispano muere cuando un rbol de sesenta pies cae sobre la excavadora hidrulica con la que estaba despejando un terreno en Tennessee
    Trabajador hispano muere cuando un árbol de sesenta pies cae sobre la excavadora hidráulica con la que estaba despejando un terreno en Tennessee.
    Lutz, Virginia
    2011/08/19 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    El 7 de febrero del 2009, un trabajador hispano de 28 años sufrió lesiones mortales cuando un árbol que trataba de derribar cayó sobre la cabina de la excavadora hidráulica que operaba. Al momento del incidente, la víctima trabajaba para una compañía de urbanización que estaba preparando un terreno para construir un estacionamiento y una entrada pa ...
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  • Hispanic Worker Dies When a SixtyFoot Tree Falls onto the Hydraulic Excavator He Was Operating to Clear Land Tennessee FACE 200902
    Hispanic Worker Dies When a Sixty-Foot Tree Falls onto the Hydraulic Excavator He Was Operating to Clear Land - Tennessee: FACE 2009-02
    Lutz, Virginia
    2011/08/19 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On February 7, 2009, a 28-year-old Hispanic worker suffered fatal injuries when a tree he was attempting to fell struck the cab of the hydraulic excavator he was operating. At the time of the incident, the victim was working for a site development company that was preparing land to construct a parking lot and driveway for a golf course. He was oper ...
  • Workers Die from Heat Stroke
    Workers Die from Heat Stroke
    University of Kentucky. College of Public Health. Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center
    2011/08/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    To prevent heatstroke, employers should: Train supervisors and employees to recognize symptoms of heat stroke. Give frequent breaks and provide drinking water. Adjust work hours to accommodate work conditions such as high heat index and/or high humidity. Monitor workers who are at risk of heat stroke Employees should: Report unusual behavior. Know ...
  • Workers Killed After Being Electrocuted
    Workers Killed After Being Electrocuted
    University of Kentucky. College of Public Health. Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center
    2011/08/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    To prevent electrocutions, employers should: Provide nonconductive ladders. Conduct a jobsite survey to identify potential hazards. Provide electricity awareness training. Provide onsite automated external defibrillators (AEDs). Employees should: Use non-conductive ladders. De-energize lines before beginning work. Make sure all equipment is properl ...
  • Commercial Roofer Died When Struck By a Falling Load of Palletized Roofing Material
    Commercial Roofer Died When Struck By a Falling Load of Palletized Roofing Material
    Michigan Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (Project) (MIFACE)  ...
    2011/07/25 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    In the summer of 2009, a 48-year-old male commercial roofer, working on a roof, died when a load of shrink-wrapped roofing material, weighing approximately 1,900 pounds fell 20-30 feet from a 40-inch by 50-inch wooden pallet being transported overhead by a tower crane. The decedent's supervisor, who was the roof man (signal person) for the lift, wa ...
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