DataSet

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)

FACE

The Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) surveillance system contains first reports of traumatic occupational fatalities in 15 states obtained through multiple sources of notification including death certificates, coroner and medical examiner reports, OSHA, law enforcement, the media, and other injury surveillance systems. Data are collected by 15 state programs funded through five-year cooperative agreements with NIOSH. FACE programs are housed within state departments of health, departments of labor, and universities. Data are currently available for the period 1990 through 1997. Because of varying funding cycles, not all states have yet contributed five years of data, nor are the data limited to the 15 states now being funded. The data in the FACE surveillance system allow description of the nature and magnitude of traumatic occupational fatalities and are used to set research and prevention priorities within the 15 program states. Because the FACE data are submitted monthly and include detailed narratives describing injury circumstances, they are used by NIOSH researchers to identify emerging injury hazards in the workplace. The FACE program also maintains supplemental data files that contain information on fatalities for which a site investigation was conducted. Active emphasis areas include machinery-related fatalities, fatal falls from elevations, and logging-related incidents. Supplemental files cover employer characteristics, safety programs, worker training, use of personal protective equipment, environmental and site conditions, machinery maintenance, and other factors.

Hispanic; Non-Hispanic; and Unknown.

Male

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