Michigan Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation

Traumatic occupational deaths are not random events. Prevention of future work-related fatalities can be accomplished if information about the settings and circumstances in which the work-related death occurred and root causes are identified, and if practical and implementable prevention information is shared with stakeholders who can effect work practice changes in their workplaces.

Surveillance and prevention activities of traumatic work-related deaths by the Michigan Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (MIFACE) research program began January 1, 2001. MIFACE, funded by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), is a joint research project of Michigan State University College of Human Medicine's Occupational and Environmental Medicine Division and the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity (LEO).

The purpose of the MIFACE surveillance project is threefold

1) Identify types of industries and work situations where workers are dying from acute traumatic incidents
2) Identify the underlying causes of the work-related fatality
3) Formulate and disseminate prevention strategies to reduce work-related fatalities

RESOURCES

• Most Recent ANNUAL REPORT
• Most Recent DATA FACT SHEET  

Previous years' work-related deaths:

• 2019 Work-Related Deaths -- See pages 36-68 of the 2019 Annual Report
• 2018 Work-Related Deaths -- See pages 39-73 of the 2018 Annual Report
• 2017 Work-Related Deaths -- See pages 39-75 of the 2017 Annual Report
• 2016 Work-Related Deaths -- See pages 52-87 of the 2016 Annual Report
• 2015 Work-Related Deaths -- See pages 51-80 of the 2015 Annual Report
• 2014 Work-Related Deaths -- See pages 51-84 of the 2014 Annual Report

MIFACE has two explanatory brochures: One for General Industry and Construction and one for Agricultural fatalities. 

MIFACE FATALITY INVESTIGATION REPORTS
SUMMARIES OF MIOSHA INSPECTIONS
HAZARD ALERTS
REPORT OF FATALITY
ANNUAL REPORTS
CDC / NIOSH FACE

Data Collection Forms

• Core Data Form completed for each work-related traumatic death.
• Investigation Interview Form completed when MIFACE conducts a site visit.
• Electrocution Fatality Data Form
• Fall-Related Fatality Data Form
• Highway Work Zone Fatality Data Form
• Machine-Related Fatality Data Form
• Motor Vehicle Fatality Data Form
• Farm Core Data Form
• Farm-Related Fatality Data Form
• Logging-Related Fatality Data Form

Digital Stories

Methylene Chloride and Bathtubs: A Dangerous Combination: YouTube digital story describing a work-related incident in which a Michigan bathtub refinisher died while refinishing an apartment bathtub with a stripping product containing methylene chloride.