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FACE Reports

In-depth investigations of fatalities

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Confined Space Fatality Investigation Reports

• A 20 year old farmer dies after entering a silo recently filled with haylage (PDF, 12 KB)

• Two Carpenters died of carbon monoxide poisoning secondary to running a gas powered engine in a confined space (PDF, 19 KB)

• Farmer's Helper Dies of Asphyxiation in Grain Bin (PDF, 12 KB)

• Owner of a Auto dealership dies of carbon monoxide poisoning while doing car reports in an unventilated garage (PDF, 18 KB)

• Farmer Dies of Asphyxiation in Grain Bin (PDF, 10 KB)

• Farmer Asphyxiated After Entering Sealed Silo (PDF, 13 KB)

Electrocution Fatality Investigation Reports

• Crane operator electrocuted dies when the boom he was operating came in contact with 4800 volt high power transmission line (PDF, 10 KB)

• Assistant machine operator was electrocuted when he handled a compressed  air nozzle and screw driver near or in a power cord carrying 480 volts (PDF, 12 KB)

• A 29 year old truck driver/deliveryman was electrocuted when the aluminum pole brush he was holding came in contact with a 14,000 volt overhead transmission line (PDF, 11 KB)

• Farmer dies when hay elevator he and 2 other men were moving came into contact with a high power transmission line (PDF, 12 KB)

• Welder was electrocuted while attempting to connect two power cords (PDF, 11 KB)

• Electrician Electrocuted after Contacting an Energized Electric Hand Drill (PDF, 13 KB)

• Coating machine operator electrocuted while assisting electrician with circuit breaker wiring (PDF, 13 KB)

• Farm Worker Electrocuted When Aluminum Grain Tube Contacts Overhead Power Line (PDF, 13 KB)

Fall-Related Fatality Investigation Reports

• Farmer fell off wagon tongue and was run over by corn-filled wagon (PDF, 10 KB)
• Construction foreman dies after falling 3 feet from a ladder to a concrete floor (PDF, 9 KB)
• General laborer at a feed mill dies after presumed fall followed by vehicle run over (PDF, 10 KB)
• Paper mill worker dies after falling 15.5 feet down a vertical conveyor (PDF, 10 KB)
• Farmer dies 2 months following a 10 foot fall from a hay wagon (PDF, 9 KB)
• Apartment manager dies after falling 30 feet from ladder (PDF, 10 KB)
• Service Technician Working For An Electronic Protection Company Dies After 20 Foot Fall From An Aluminum Ladder  (PDF, 23 KB)
• Farmer killed after fall from and runover by moving windrower (PDF, 10 KB)
• 22 year old female firefighter trainee dies at the training academy after a 28 foot fall from a cat ladder during her second day of training (PDF, 10 KB)
• 19 year old International Future Farmers of America exchange student dies after crushing injuries following fall from tractor (PDF, 10 KB)
• Farmer Dies Following Fall Down Silo Chute and After Striking a Motor and a Pulley (PDF, 10 KB)
• Logger dies after fall from skidder to tree stump (PDF, 11 KB)
• Mason Dies Following Three-Story Fall From Improvised Scaffolding (PDF, 10 KB)
• Parachute Jump Instructor and Jump Student Die From Fall After Chute Lines Became Entangled During Tandem Jump From Plane (PDF, 10 KB)
• Laborer Dies Following a 13-foot Fall From a Porch-Roof (PDF, 13 KB)
• Farm Worker Dies after Fall from Silo Chute Ladder (PDF, 11 KB)
• Electrician Apprentice Dies Following a 55-foot Fall From a Roof (PDF, 12 KB)
• Carpenter Dies Following a Fall From Ladder Scaffolding (PDF, 10 KB)
• Plaster Laborer Dies After Falling From a Scaffold (PDF, 16 KB)
• Construction Laborer Falls 26 Feet From Leading Edge of Roof (PDF, 15 KB)
• Front-end Loader Operator Dies When Loader Falls 40 Feet Onto Quarry Floor (PDF, 14 KB)
• Farmer Dies of Fall From Hay Wagon (PDF, 3 KB)
• Crew leader crushed when forklift load carrier falls from forklift (PDF, 33 KB)
• Fire Fighter Dies of Asphyxiation After Falling Through the Burning Roof of his Home (PDF, 13 KB)
• Construction Laborer Dies After Being Jolted From a Tractor Seat and Pinned Under the Tractor Tire (PDF, 13 KB)   Brief Alert (PDF, 45 KB)
• Laborer Dies From Fall Through Skylight While Shoveling Snow on Roof (PDF, 134 KB)   Brief Alert (PDF, 72 KB)
• Amish Carpenter Dies after Falling from Scaffold  (PDF, 32 KB)
• Farm Worker Dies when he Falls from Tractor Seat  (PDF, 23 KB)
• Service worker for alarm system company dies after 35 foot fall (PDF, 9 KB)

Highway Work Zone Fatality Investigation Reports

• Construction Laborer Killed when Run Over by Dump Truck in Highway Work Zone (PDF, 20 KB)   Brief Alert  (PDF, 44 KB)

• Road maintenance worker died 15 months after falling backwards off a dump truck onto pavement (PDF, 9 KB)

Hispanic and Other Population Worker Fatality Investigation Reports

• Hispanic Laborers drowned in pond on Golf course (PDF, 33KB)

• Hispanic Painter Dies after Falling from a New House Roof (PDF, 80 KB)

• Hispanic Laborer Dies After Falling Through Roof of Old Building  (PDF, 154 KB)

• Farmer Killed when kicked by horse  (PDF, 26 KB)

Machine Related Fatality Investigation Reports

• Skid-Steer Loader Hazards as Corroborated by NIOSH FACE (Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation) Program Investigations in the United States, 1992-2005 (PDF, 42 KB)

• Maintenance machinist trainee entangled in revolving shaft of vertical boring mill (PDF, 48 KB)

• Machinist Fatally Injured from Being Pinned in Vertical Lathe (PDF, 33 KB)

• Farmer Dies of Entanglement in Corn Picker/Husker (PDF, 95 KB)

• Farmer entangled in rotating driveline shaft of portable feed grinder/mixer  (PDF, 23 KB)

• Farm Worker Dies After Tractor Rolls and She is Pinned Under the Tractor Tire (PDF, 29 KB)

• Part-time farmer Dies when Tractor Rolls Over on Hillside and Pins Him Underneath (PDF, 13 KB)

• Machinist is Pinned Between Parts of Metal Materials Handling Equipment (PDF, 40 KB)   Brief Alert (PDF, 45 KB)

• Office Assistant at Sod Farm Dies When Forklift Slides into Ditch and She is Pinned (PDF, 159 KB)

• Farmer Dies After he is Run Over by Tractor in Farmyard (PDF, 16 KB)
• Farmer Dies After he is Run Over by Tractor in Farm Field (PDF, 15 KB)
• Farmer Dies From Being Entangled in Unguarded PTO Unit on Hay Elevator (PDF, 95 KB)
• Tractor Runs Over Farmer After he Dismounts to Repair Jammed Hay Baler (PDF, 40 KB)
• Farmer Dies After Becoming Entangled in Unguarded PTO Unit on Corn Sheller (PDF, 14 kb)
• Farmer Dies After Becoming Entangled in Unguarded Driveline on a Corn Auger (PDF, 153 KB)
• Logger Dies After a Log Skidder Rolled Downhill and Struck Him as he was Felling a Tree (PDF, 14 KB)   Brief Alert (PDF, 46 KB)
• Farmer Dies After Being Pinned Between the Bucket and Frame of a Skid steer Loader (PDF, 203 KB)   Brief Alert (PDF, 67 KB)

• Utilities Worker Dies After Being Pinned in a Pulpwood Belt Conveyor at a Paper Company (PDF, 12 KB)   Brief Alert (PDF, 45 KB)

• Supervisor at Plastics Company Crushed in Injection Molding Machine (PDF, 93 KB)   Brief Alert (PDF, 72 KB)

• Farmer Dies After he is Run Over by Tractor in Machine Shed (PDF, 14 KB)   Brief Alert (PDF, 38 KB)

• Supervisor at Plastics Company Crushed in Injection Molding Machine  (PDF, 56 KB)

• Farmer Dies After he was Entangled in the Driveline Shaft of a Manure Spreader (PDF, 17 KB)  Brief Alert 1 (PDF, 117 KB)  Brief Alert 2 (PDF, 40 KB)

• Farmer Dies After Being Pinned Under Overturned Tractor (PDF, 13 KB)   Brief Alert  (PDF, 45 KB)

• Farm Worker Dies after Being Struck by a Flywheel of a Haybaler (PDF, 87 KB)   Brief Alert 1  (PDF, 117 KB) Brief Alert 2  (PDF, 99 KB)

• Farm Worker Dies After Tractor Overturns (PDF, 118 KB)   Brief Alert  (PDF, 116 KB)

• Heavy Equipment Operator Pinned After Bulldozer Slides off Flatbed Trailer (PDF, 117 KB)   Brief Alert  (PDF, 116 KB)

• Part-time Logger Pinned by Tractor Wheel after Being Knocked from Operator’s Seat by Falling Tree (PDF, 152 KB)   Brief Alert  (PDF, 90 KB)

• Florist Pinned Between Bucket of an Industrial Truck and Semi Trailer (PDF, 66 KB)   Brief Alert  (PDF, 78 KB)

• Farmer Dies After Tractor Overturns and Pins Him Beneath Tractor Seat (PDF, 12 KB)   Brief Alert  (PDF, 90 KB)

• Farmer Thrown from Tractor and Run Over by Hay Baler (PDF, 92 KB)

• Farmer Dies When he is Pinned Between Bucket and Frame of a Skid-Steer Loader (PDF, 19 KB)
• Beef Farmer Pinned Under Overturned All-Terrain Vehicle (PDF, 95 KB)   Brief Alert  (PDF, 79 KB)

• Farmer Dies when he is Pinned Under Drawbar While Fueling Tractor (PDF, 69 KB)   Brief Alert (PDF, 96 KB)

• Farmer Dies when Skid Steer Loader Overturns  (PDF, 85 KB)

• Snowmobile Mechanic Dies When He is Ejected from Snowmobile Operator's Seat and Strikes a Tree  (PDF, 33KB)

• Farmer dies when Pinned between Arm and Frame of a Skid Steer Loader (PDF, 44 KB)

• Farmer Fell into Auger of Manure Spreader while Scraping the Tank (PDF, 190 KB)

• Farmer Dies when Pinned between Frame and Bucket of a Skid Steer Loader (PDF, 202 KB)

• Dairy Farmer Dies 15 Days After All-Terrain Vehicle Rolled Over Him (PDF, 213 KB)

• Farmer Dies when Skid Steer Loader Rolls 0ver Him after it Plunged over Edge of Bluff (PDF, 107 KB)
• Laborer Dies when Crushed Between Forklift Cage and Mast  (PDF, 139 KB)
• Farmer Dies when Tractor rolls over on sloped Terrain  (PDF, 51 KB)

• Farmer Dies when he is Pinned under his Tractor that rolled over on an Incline (PDF, 76 KB)

• Lineman at Hydroelectric Utility was Asphyxiated when the Safety Rope Attached to his Harness Became Entangled in a Revolving Turbine Shaft (PDF, 95 KB)  Brief Alert  (PDF, 80 KB

• Public Works Laborer Caught in Auger of Truck Sander (PDF, 196 KB)

• Tree Trimmer Dies when Truck-Mounted Aerial Bucket Arm Collapsed (PDF, 156 KB)

Youth Worker Fatality Investigation Reports

• Youth Worker Dies After Being Pinned Under Tractor at a Food Processing Plant (PDF, 132 KB)   Brief Alert (PDF, 85 KB)

• Youth Restaurant Cashier Shot to Death During Attempted Robbery (PDF, 19 KB)   Brief Alert  (PDF, 38 KB)

• Youth Farm Worker Pinned Under Overturned Horse-Drawn Manure Sled (PDF, 130 KB)   Brief Alert  (PDF, 86 KB)
• Youth Newspaper Delivery person Killed when He fell out of the Open Door of a Minivan and was Run Over (PDF, 15 KB)   Brief Alert  (PDF, 49 KB)

• Youth Camp Counselor Dies of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning (PDF, 49 KB)   Brief Alert (PDF, 69 KB)

• Youth Newspaper Delivery Assistant Dies in Motor Vehicle Collision  (PDF, 25 KB)

• Youth Reserve Recruit Killed in Automobile Collision While Traveling on Duty   (PDF, 30 KB)

• Youth Killed in Tractor Rollover while Moving Large Hay Bales (PDF, 54 KB)

• Youth Newspaper Carrier dies after being Struck by an Automobile while Delivering Newspapers on a bike  (PDF, 56 KB)

• Youth Dies in Tractor Rollover Attempting to Pull Trailer Out of Mud  (PDF, 133 KB)

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Contact the Wisconsin FACE Program by email or 608-264-9829.

Last Revised: November 27, 2012