The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (NIOSH FACE) program investigates selected work-related fatalities, collecting information not captured in other data sources - including safety management and training programs, use of engineering controls and personal protective equipment on the jobsite, and recommendations for preventing similar incidents. Center for Construction Research and Training (CPWR) researchers took all of the 768 fatality cases in construction investigated and reported between 1982 and 2015, and coded the narratives into a searchable database. Working with NIOSH, CPWR recently published two papers describing the database and our analysis of fall fatalities contained therein. They found:
The construction FACE database - Codifying the NIOSH FACE reports appeared in the September 2017 edition of the Journal of Safety Research, summarized HERE. Fatal falls and PFAS use in the construction industry: Findings from the NIOSH FACE reports appeared in Accident Analysis and Prevention. For a one-page summary of the key findings, CLICK HERE.