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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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  • Fatality Narrative Crane Rigger Killed When Struck by Falling Crane Load
    Fatality Narrative: Crane Rigger Killed When Struck by Falling Crane Load
    Washington (State). Department of Labor and Industries
    2010/11/05 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On November 25, 2008, a 46-year-old rigger died when he was struck by a falling load being lifted by a crane. The victim worked for a heavy construction and crane service company. He had been inspecting, rigging, and operating cranes for over 20 years and had been trained and certified as a crane inspector. On the day of the incident the victim was ...
  • A Laborer Dies When He is Struck By an Exploding Forklift MultiPiece Rim
    A Laborer Dies When He is Struck By an Exploding Forklift Multi-Piece Rim
    Cierpich, Hank ;
    Harrison, Robert
    2010/11/04 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 27-year-old laborer died when a forklift multi-piece rim exploded as he was changing the tire. The victim was an employee of an employment agency assigned to work at a tile manufacturing company as a general laborer. The supervisor in the tile manufacturing company who assigned the victim the task of changing the tires was not aware of the hazard ...
  • Fatality Narrative Laborer Struck by Boom of Excavator When It Tips Over
    Fatality Narrative: Laborer Struck by Boom of Excavator When It Tips Over
    Washington (State). Department of Labor and Industries
    2010/11/03 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On September 26, 2008, a construction laborer died when he was struck by the boom of an excavator when it tipped over. His job as a laborer involved checking grades and ensuring that elevations were correct and guiding and spotting the excavator operator. On the day of the incident, the victim and and the excavator operator were placing a concrete ...
  • FACE Facts Solar Panel Installer Falls off Roof
    FACE Facts: Solar Panel Installer Falls off Roof!
    California. Department of Public Health
    2010/11/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 30-year-old solar panel installer, Richard P.* (*Not the victim's real name) died after he fell 45 feet off the roof of a three-story apartment building. He was part of a three-man crew working to install solar panels on a sloped roof. Richard walked backward and stepped off the roof while checking the position of some brackets. No one was wearin ...
  • FACE Facts City Laborer Struck and Killed by a Motor Vehicle While Closing a Water Gate Valve
    FACE Facts: City Laborer Struck and Killed by a Motor Vehicle While Closing a Water Gate Valve
    Massachusetts. Department of Public Health
    2010/10/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    What happened? In 2009, a 35-year-old male city water department laborer was fatally injured while responding to a water main break. The victim and a co-worker needed to close up a water main gate valve located in a roadway up the street from the water main break. They parked their work pickup truck just beyond the valve, facing the same direction ...
  • Yarding Logging Safety
    Yarding Logging Safety
    Oregon Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (Program) (OR-FACE)
    2010/10/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    Danger in logging is ancient. In the Middle Ages, according to a history of housing, when a Chinese emperor demanded wood for building from a forested province, the peasants "wept with despair until they choked." For every thousand people who went into the mountains in search of wood, the people said, five hundred came back. Today, the fatality rat ...
  • Know the Hazards of Driver Distraction
    Know the Hazards of Driver Distraction
    Oregon Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (Program) (OR-FACE)
    2010/10/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    Driver distraction is a factor in at least one-fourth of all crashes. Often, drivers are looking at an object in their lap or on the seat next to them. Glances away from the forward roadway for 2 seconds doubles the risk of a crash. Short driving-related glances at rear-view mirrors or outside conditions reduce the risk of a crash. Dialing is more ...
  • Service Technician Working Alone Dies after being Assaulted
    Service Technician Working Alone Dies after being Assaulted
    Kentucky Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (KY FACE)  ...
    2010/09/30 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    One late fall evening in 2009, a 53 year-old male technician was working alone at a repair shop. At approximately 9:45 PM, the technician returned to the shop with his dinner from a nearby fast-food establishment. He spread his dinner on the workbench and began eating when apparently he was attacked from behind. His attacker used a knife and cut th ...
  • Temporary mill worker killed in fall down manlift shaft
    Temporary mill worker killed in fall down manlift shaft
    Oregon Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (Program) (OR-FACE)  ...
    2010/09/07 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On December 21, 2007, a 56-year-old clean-up worker at a food mill was killed when he fell into a manlift shaft. The worker apparently tripped or misjudged the handhold on a continuously running manlift in the mill that carried workers up and down between floors. He fell through the 2x2½-foot floor opening onto a crossbeam and was struck continuous ...
  • A Solar Panel Installer Dies When He Falls Off a Roof
    A Solar Panel Installer Dies When He Falls Off a Roof
    Cierpich, Hank ;
    Harrison, Robert
    2010/09/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A solar panel installer died when he fell off a three-story apartment building roof. The victim was checking the alignment of solar panel brackets and was walking backwards when he stepped off the edge of the roof. He fell 45 feet to the concrete sidewalk below. The pre-project plan stated that fall protection would be required on the job, however, ...
  • Commercial Crab Fishing in Oregon
    Commercial Crab Fishing in Oregon
    Oregon Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (Program) (OR-FACE)
    2010/09/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    Crab Fishing Safety: - Attend safety drill training (contact the Oregon Dungeness Crab Commission or U.S. Coast Guard for local schedules). - Policy: Require the use of lifejackets during bar crossings in treacherous conditions (or in any conditions). - Policy: Expand requirements for stability reports to all crab boats (currently only required for ...
  • FACE Facts Tree Trimmer Suffocated by Palm Branches
    FACE Facts: Tree Trimmer Suffocated by Palm Branches!
    California. Department of Public Health
    2010/09/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 40-year-old tree trimmer, Antonio V.*(* Not the victim's real name), died after being trapped and suffocated by drooping palm branches. Antonio had climbed an 80-foot palm tree to just below the dead branches. He began to cut them away from the trunk. Some cut branches were tangled with uncut branches and they flopped down onto his head and shoul ...
  • Fatality Narrative Roofing Contractor Falls from a BoomSupported Elevating Work Platform
    Fatality Narrative: Roofing Contractor Falls from a Boom-Supported Elevating Work Platform
    Washington (State). Department of Labor and Industries
    2010/08/31 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On September 27, 2008, a roofing contractor died when he fell from a boom-supported elevating work platform. The 53-year-old victim was working from a boom-supported elevating work platform to secure a roof truss while building an airplane hanger on a homeowner's property. He used the end of the boom just under the front of the platform to push aga ...
  • Foreignborn Semi Driver Dies After Driving Over Embankment
    Foreign-born Semi Driver Dies After Driving Over Embankment
    Kentucky Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (KY FACE)  ...
    2010/08/03 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    One summer morning in 2009, at approximately 11:30 AM, a 41 year-old male, long-haul, semi tractor-trailer driver drove off an interstate highway, over a guardrail, and continued into a wooded ravine. His trailer was empty and he was traveling to pick up a load of retail goods. The trailer disengaged from the tractor, the fuel tanks ruptured, the t ...
  • Workers killed during maintenance of cargocontainer spreader and expandable lifting frame
    Workers killed during maintenance of cargo-container spreader and expandable lifting frame.
    New Jersey. Department of Health
    2010/08/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    What happened: Incident #1- A crane operator functioning as a mechanic was killed when his head was crushed between structural beams of an intermodal cargo-container spreader as it was being closed during the lubrication of the guide rails; and #2 - A yard supervisor was standing on a 6-foot ladder to check a lifting frame for hydraulic leaks when ...
  • Assembler Fabricator Dies When Struck by L Rack Loaded with Glass Mirrors in Washington State
    Assembler / Fabricator Dies When Struck by "L" Rack Loaded with Glass Mirrors in Washington State
    Washington (State). Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (WA FACE)  ...
    2010/07/30 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    In September 2008, a 35-year-old male died when he was struck by a metal shipping framework known as an "L" rack. The victim was a skilled assembler and fabricator who worked in the model room at a custom glass and mirror manufacturing facility in Washington State. The rack was loaded with a crate of mirrors that tipped over while being moved by th ...
  • Fatality Narrative Operating Engineer Struck by Concrete Slab
    Fatality Narrative: Operating Engineer Struck by Concrete Slab
    Washington (State). Department of Labor and Industries
    2010/07/30 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On September 4, 2008, an operating engineer died after being struck by a concrete slab. The 28-year-old victim was employed for seven years by an electrical contractor. The victim and a co-worker were removing controlled density fill, a type of concrete, from an electrical vault. The vault was in an excavation where the two workers were working ins ...
  • Fatality Narrative Farm Tractor Operator Falls from Tractor and Run Over
    Fatality Narrative: Farm Tractor Operator Falls from Tractor and Run Over
    Washington (State). Department of Labor and Industries
    2010/07/30 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On May 21, 2009, a tractor operator fell from a tractor while raking hay in a field and was run over by the tractor's wheel, the windrow rake being pulled by the tractor, or both. The 55-year-old victim was working his first day on the job as a temporary hay harvesting employee at a dairy farm. He was an experienced tractor operator. He started rak ...
  • Mechanic Dies after being Pulled into a Snow Thrower
    Mechanic Dies after being Pulled into a Snow Thrower
    New York State Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Program (NY FACE)  ...
    2010/07/27 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    In February 2007, a 63 year-old male mechanic (the victim) sustained fatal injuries after being pulled into a snow thrower at a ski resort. The snow thrower was temporarily parked in the Snowmaking Department garage. The victim was working alone at the time of the incident and there was no witness. At approximately 8:15 pm, two co-workers went to t ...
  • Truck driver entangled in drive train while freeing seized brakes
    Truck driver entangled in drive train while freeing seized brakes
    Lundell, John ;
    Madsen, Murray D.
    2010/07/22 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    In December of 2005, a 64-year-old part-time truck operator died when his clothing became entangled in the drive train of a semi-truck tractor. Upon discovering that the brakes of the truck were frozen and would not release, the victim crawled under the truck to free the brakes using a hammer and metal rod. The truck had automatic transmission and ...
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