Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
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Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program Reports
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health’s (NIOSH) Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program and State FACE Programs study fatal workplace injuries and prepare reports with recommendations to prevent similar injuries. The following are links to all of the items in this collection:
Documents
- Kentucky FACE Report: Commercial Roofer Falls 30 Feet Through a Skylight While Installing Roof Insulation
- Fatal Occupational Injuries in Massachusetts 2008-2013
- Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
- Washington FACE Report: Glazier Foreman Falls From Stepladder
- Preventing Construction Falls Toolkit
- Hazard Alert: Pedestrian Workers Killed by Forklifts
- Keep Employees in Motor Vehicles Safe
- New York FACE Brochure
- Washington FACE Report: Construction Laborer Falls When Ladder Breaks
- Washington FACE Report: Pipelayer Dies when Trench Wall Collapses
- Washington FACE Report: Carpenter Falls 60 Feet from Bridge Concrete Form
- Washington FACE Report: Foreman and Laborer Fall when Aerial Lift Struck by Vehicle
- Washington FACE Report: Framer Falls 18 Feet while Sheathing Roof
- New York FACE Report: Mechanic Electrocuted when a Mobile Light Tower Contacted Powerline
- New York FACE Report: Two Construction Workers Fatally Crushed when Cement Formwork Collapsed
- Kentucky FACE Report: Construction Laborer Killed in Trench Collapse while Taking Grade Measurements
- California FACE Report: A Heating, Ventilaton and Air Conditioning (HVAC) Contractor Dies when He Falls through a Skylight
- Massachusetts FACE Report: Carpenter Fatally Injured after Falling from an Extension Ladder
- Massachusetts FACE Report: Laborer Fatally Injured after Falling from a Home under Construction
- Oregon FACE Report: Worker Falls When Ladder Slips
- Michigan FACE Information Sheet: Look for Mobile Equipment Blind Spots
- Oregon FACE Report: Collapsed roof trusses kill carpenter foreman
- Washington FACE Report: Roofer Falls 19 Feet from Roof
- Hazard Alert: Plan. Provide. Train. Prevent Fall Injuries & Deaths
- Kentucky FACE Report: 19-Year-Old Construction Laborer Crushed in Trench Collapse While Laying Sewage Pipe
- Kentucky FACE Report: Construction Flagger Struck and Killed in Two-Lane Highway Work Zone
- Kentucky FACE Report:Temporary Electrician Helper Steps into Unguarded Elevator Shaft and Dies
- Fatality Narrative: Roofing Contractor Falls 25 Feet From Church Roof
- Kentucky FACE Report: Construction Siding Subcontractor Installer Killed when Oversized Scaffolding Platform Destabilized and Telescopic Forklift Overturned
- NIOSH FACE Report - Maintenance Worker Struck by Forklift Carriage—Tennessee
- Kentucky Hazard Alert: Roofing and Construction Workers Killed Due to High Winds
- Poster: Secure it to move it!
- Oregon FACE Report: Crane Operator Killed By Falling Steel Beam
- New Jersey FACE Report: Mechanic Dies After Being Crushed Under Electrical Cabinet
- New Jersey FACE Report: Plant Manager Crushed to Death Under Fallen Pile of Steel Beams
- NIOSH FACE Report: Hispanic worker falls from residential roof
- Oregon FACE Report: Construction worker died after falling 20-25 feet from a pump-jack scaffold
- FACE Fact Sheet: Prevent Construction Falls from Roofs, Ladders, and Scaffolds
- Construction Fatality Narrative: Roofer Falls 18 Feet from Wet House Roof
- Construction Worker Killed when Trench Collapsed, Oregon
- A Tree Trimmer is Electrocuted While Trimming a Palm Tree
- A Tree Feller Dies When Struck By a Tree Limb While Felling a Fire-Damaged Tree
- Concrete Finisher Electrocuted When Bull Float Contacted an Energized Power Line
- Warehouse Worker Crushed by Forks of Laser Guided Vehicle
Summary Statement
This Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation (FACE) Program flyer contains information about FACE Programs as well as materials available to keep workers safe on the job.
2017
Employers, Safety Professionals, and Workers:
Each day about 13 workers die on the job from traumatic injury. In an effort to address these deaths, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health’s (NIOSH) Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program and State FACE Programs study fatal workplace injuries and prepare reports with recommendations to prevent similar deaths. This flyer contains information about the Programs as well as materials available to keep workers safe on the job.
What is the NIOSH FACE Program?
The FACE Program is a national research program that aims to prevent job-related injuries and deaths by:
- Investigating selected fatalities
- Identifying hazards
- Developing workplace prevention recommendations
- Sharing recommendations with employers, safety professionals, and workers
What are the State FACE Programs?
Through federal funding, state health and labor departments participate in the FACE Program. The State FACE Programs monitor worker deaths, conduct targeted investigations, and recommend prevention activities at the state level using the NIOSH FACE Program model. Current participating states include: California, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, Oregon, and Washington. Other states participated in past years.
The NIOSH and State FACE Programs have investigated deaths associated with: confined spaces, electrocutions, machinery, falls from elevation, logging, energy production, young workers, foreign-born workers, and other selected fatalities.
Who are the NIOSH FACE and State FACE Program investigators?
FACE investigators are safety professionals, engineers, or industrial hygienists with training and experience in identifying workplace hazards and developing recommendations to reduce the risk of injury and death.
FACE investigators do not enforce compliance with State or Federal job safety and health standards, nor do they place blame or determine the fault for a workplace death. Investigators will not ask family members for an interview as part of their investigation, but will share information and findings upon request.
How do the NIOSH FACE and State FACE Programs conduct investigations?
Investigators travel to the location where a death occurred to examine the worksite and collect facts about what happened before, during, and after the incident. Investigators talk with company officials, witnesses, and workers to learn about the work environment and victim. The investigators analyze the collected information, then prepare a report. The report is given to the company where the victim was employed and posted to the NIOSH website so others can use it for prevention activities, training, and education purposes.
What other materials are available to keep workers safe?
NIOSH Alerts present new information about workplace hazards that contributed to injuries and deaths as well as ways to prevent and control these hazards.
Workplace Solutions provide practical information on ways to prevent injuries and deaths on the worksite.
To see these materials and other publications visit: www.cdc.gov/niosh/face/othpubs.html
To receive documents or other information about occupational safety and health topics, contact NIOSH:
Telephone: 1–800–CDC–INFO (1–800–232–4636)
TTY: 1–888–232–6348
CDC INFO: www.cdc.gov/info or visit the NIOSH website at www.cdc.gov/niosh.
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DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2017–145
May 2017
Supersedes 2016-113 www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2016-113/
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