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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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  • Truck Driver Dies When He Falls Off the Top of a Tank Trailer
    Truck Driver Dies When He Falls Off the Top of a Tank Trailer
    Cierpich, Hank ;
    Harrison, Robert
    2009/01/13 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A truck driver died after he fell off the top of a tank trailer while attempting to close the tank lid. The victim had gained access to the top of the tank trailer by a catwalk and weighted gangway with a fixed guardrail that extended over the top of the trailer. The victim fell through a gap between the guardrail and the top of the tank trailer. T ...
  • A Painter Falls 12 Feet While Painting a Pump Hose Platform System Massachusetts
    A Painter Falls 12 Feet While Painting a Pump Hose Platform System - Massachusetts
    Massachusetts Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Project (Massachusetts FACE)  ...
    2009/01/05 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On May 12, 2007, a 37-year-old male immigrant worker (victim) was fatally injured when he fell while painting a fixed raised pump hose platform system located in a loading dock area. He was an employee of a painting contractor hired to paint the platform system by the platform's owner, an agricultural cooperative that specializes in manufacturing j ...
  • Highway worker crushed by swinging backhoe boom
    Highway worker crushed by swinging backhoe boom
    Oregon Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (Program) (OR-FACE)  ...
    2009/01/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On July 1, 2007, a 47-year-old road construction worker was killed while working on the ground alongside a backhoe. The worker was a journeyman equipment operator working together with an apprentice, who operated the backhoe. The two road workers were preparing to pull pins from concrete barricades along the roadside, so they could be moved. The jo ...
  • Teens at Work WorkRelated Injuries to Teens in Massachusetts 20012005
    Teens at Work: Work-Related Injuries to Teens in Massachusetts, 2001-2005
    Massachusetts. Department of Public Health. Occupational Health Surveillance Program
    2009/01/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    An estimated 80% of teens in the U.S are employed at some point during high school.(1) Although teen employment has declined from its peak in 1999, youth continue to be a vital part of the workforce in Massachusetts as well as the country as a whole. In 2007, an estimated 25% of 15- to 17-year-olds in Massachusetts were employed at any given point ...
  • Fatal Occupational Injuries in Massachusetts 20002007
    Fatal Occupational Injuries in Massachusetts, 2000-2007
    Areche A ;
    Bekele T
    2009/01/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    Work-related fatalities are a significant public health problem in Massachusetts, as they are in the United States. Information about the occupations, industries and circumstances in which these fatalities occur is essential to guide efforts to prevent future fatalities. Since 1991, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health has collected inform ...
  • Worker Fatality Alert Worker Falls from Roof While Tenting a House
    Worker Fatality Alert: Worker Falls from Roof While Tenting a House
    California. Department of Public Health
    2009/01/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    Prevention Points: Fumigation companies should be aware of fall hazards to workers; Fall safety prevention programs include personal fall protection, training and other measures. The California Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (CA/FACE) program identifies and studies conditions that lead to fatal injuries at work, and develops prevention ...
  • Farmer engulfed and suffocated in soybeans during unloading of steel grain bin
    Farmer engulfed and suffocated in soybeans during unloading of steel grain bin
    Madsen, Murray D. ;
    Rautiainen, Risto
    2008/12/30 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    Mid-spring 2005, a 64-year-old lifelong farmer died in northeast Iowa when he was engulfed and suffocated in soybeans inside a cylindrical, steel grain bin on a farm he rented. He had entered the three-quarters full bin while the truck driver outside manned the high-capacity auger which conveyed beans from the bin to his semi-truck trailer. Concern ...
  • Fatality Narrative Carpenter Falls into Elevator Shaft
    Fatality Narrative: Carpenter Falls into Elevator Shaft
    Washington (State). Department of Labor and Industries
    2008/12/30 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On August 28, 2007, a carpenter was killed from a 30 foot fall down an elevator shaft. The 73-year-old victim was a retired teacher who did occasional carpentry work. He had been a licensed contractor for about 17 years, but his license had expired several years ago. Over the past few years he had been helping an acquaintance build an oyster proces ...
  • Driver pinned under haul truck that went off quarry road and tipped over revised 20081229
    Driver pinned under haul truck that went off quarry road and tipped over [revised 2008-12-29]
    Madsen, Murray D. ;
    Rautiainen, Risto
    2008/12/29 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 58-year-old man with many years of mining experience had been driving a haul truck for only a couple of weeks before he was crushed under it in the autumn of 2004. The loaded haul truck he was driving had a gross vehicle weight rating of approximately 63 ton (57 tonne), including its maximum payload of 35 ton (31.8 tonne). The truck went off the ...
  • Farmer Asphyxiated when Entangled in Drives of Boxtype Manure Spreader
    Farmer Asphyxiated when Entangled in Drives of Box-type Manure Spreader
    Madsen, Murray D. ;
    Rautiainen, Risto
    2008/12/23 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A 43-year-old farmer from north central Iowa died in the fall of 2004 when he became entangled in the drive mechanism for a box-type manure spreader's distributor/beater and bottom conveyor. The victim was operating the tractor and manure spreader on a narrow strip of land near the farmstead on the farm he rented. He stopped the tractor and left th ...
  • Apprentice Electrician Electrocuted while Wiring an Elevator Disconnect Switch Massachusetts
    Apprentice Electrician Electrocuted while Wiring an Elevator Disconnect Switch - Massachusetts
    Massachusetts Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Project (Massachusetts FACE)  ...
    2008/12/23 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On October 23, 2006, a 24-year-old male apprentice electrician was electrocuted by an energized 480-volt, three-phase circuit while permanently wiring a heavy duty disconnect switch for a new elevator. The supply side of the disconnect switch had three energized wires fed into it through the switch's top mechanical lugs. At the time of the incident ...
  • Cargo Handler Killed By Airplane Tail Stand TipOver During Transport
    Cargo Handler Killed By Airplane Tail Stand Tip-Over During Transport
    Blando, James ;
    Lefkowitz, Daniel
    2008/12/11 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A tip-over of an airplane tail stand while it was being moved resulted in the death of a male cargo handler at a major New Jersey airport. The tail stand tip-over occurred when the cargo handler was using a cargo tug vehicle to return the tail stand to its storage location after the offloading and loading of cargo on a Boeing 747 aircraft. During t ...
  • Iron Worker Crushed in Collapse of a Telescopic Boom Lift Massachusetts
    Iron Worker Crushed in Collapse of a Telescopic Boom Lift - Massachusetts
    Massachusetts Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Project (Massachusetts FACE)  ...
    2008/12/03 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On November 21, 2007, a 52-year-old male iron worker, the victim, was fatally injured when a lift's telescopic boom collapsed, crushing him. The victim was working with a co-worker to replace one of the lift's counterbalance valves. At the time of the incident, the lift's boom was in an extended position. The victim had just removed the valve when ...
  • Fatality Narrative Laborer Falls into Trench and Struck by Excavator Bucket
    Fatality Narrative: Laborer Falls into Trench and Struck by Excavator Bucket
    Washington (State). Department of Labor and Industries
    2008/12/02 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On August 20, 2007, a laborer died after falling into a trench and being struck by an excavator bucket. The 28-year-old victim had been working for about five months with a site preparation contractor. The victim was working with a crew digging a trench for a new sewer system. He was helping the excavator operator by taking trench depth and length ...
  • FACE Facts Trabajador Muere en LavaCarros
    FACE Facts: Trabajador Muere en Lava-Carros!
    Departamento de Salud Pública de California
    2008/12/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    Un trabajador de 23 años que lavaba carros, Manuel P.*(*No es el nombre real de la víctima), murió mientras limpiaba el piso de un lavacarros automático. Manuel estaba usando una manguera para limpiar el piso y encendió el equipo en el túnel del lava-carros para que la manguera tuviera más presión. La manguera se enredó entre los pies de Manuel y a ...
  • FACE Facts Attendant Killed in a Car Wash
    FACE Facts: Attendant Killed in a Car Wash!
    California. Department of Public Health
    2008/12/01 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    A twenty-three-year-old Hispanic car wash attendant, Manuel P.*(* Not the victim's real name), died while cleaning the floor inside a car wash. Manuel used a hose to clean the floor. He turned on the wash equipment to have more pressure in the hose. As Manuel was spraying the floor, the hose caught in one of the turning brushes. Manuel was pulled i ...
  • Roofing Foreman Dies from Telescopic Boom Lift Fall
    Roofing Foreman Dies from Telescopic Boom Lift Fall
    Kentucky Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (KY FACE)  ...
    2008/10/31 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On a winter day in 2008, a male roofer/ foreman died after falling from a telescopic boom lift. He and four other roofing crew members were installing a new roof at a residence undergoing restoration. They had arrived at the job site at approximately 7:45 AM. At approximately 8:00 AM, the foreman and two roofers were installing flashing on the roof ...
  • Fatality Narrative Construction Equipment Mechanic Killed While Working Under Truck
    Fatality Narrative: Construction Equipment Mechanic Killed While Working Under Truck
    Washington (State). Department of Labor and Industries
    2008/10/31 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On July 26, 2007, a construction equipment mechanic working under a truck was killed when the truck he was working on rolled forward, pinning him between the differential and the ground. The 49-year-old victim had thirty years experience as a mechanic and had been employed as a mechanic by a site preparation contractor for three years. The victim w ...
  • Fatality Narrative Concrete Finisher Driving Flatbed Truck Dies When Vehicle Leaves Road and Crashes
    Fatality Narrative: Concrete Finisher Driving Flatbed Truck Dies When Vehicle Leaves Road and Crashes
    Washington (State). Department of Labor and Industries
    2008/09/30 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    On June 17, 2007, a 26-year-old male employee died when the flatbed truck he was driving left the roadway and crashed. The victim worked as a concrete finisher for a poured concrete foundation and structure contractor. The victim and a coworker completed work at a job site and then the victim, and the coworker as a passenger, got into a flatbed tru ...
  • Crane Boom Collapse Kills Man during Disassembling
    Crane Boom Collapse Kills Man during Disassembling
    New York State Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Program (NY FACE)  ...
    2008/09/27 | Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
    In March 2008, an adult male (the victim) sustained fatal injuries when the crane boom he was disassembling buckled and crushed him. The truck-mounted lattice boom crane belonged to the owner of a construction company (the owner), who was a friend of the victim. The victim was not an employee of the construction company. At the time of the incident ...
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