Mesothelioma sufferers remembered on Workers’ Memorial Day
April 28th marks Workers’ Memorial Day, which was founded in 1989 in remembrance of workers who have died from on-the-job accidents or occupational illness. In 2010, 4,340 workers were killed in the United States by traumatic work related injuries. This does not include deaths caused by exposure to toxic substances while working. One such substance is asbestos, a carcinogenic mineral fiber that is known to cause lung cancer and mesothelioma, a rare cancer of the mesothelial membrane. Read More....
On Workers' Memorial Day, recalling those who died on the job
The mournful bagpipe played as, one by one, the names of those who died on the job were read out loud, and as a rose for each was tossed into the Delaware River.
Joggers running along Penn's Landing slowed their pace, perhaps wondering about the empty coffin on the wall and why more than 100 people had gathered near it, some crying, some holding signs with someone's name and a date of death. Read More....
Workers Memorial Day reminds that safety, health need vigilance on the job
Mike Florio, 65, executive director of the Western Mass Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health, stood on the City Hall steps an hour before Workers Memorial Day was to be commemorated Thursday and rolled up the sleeves of his dark suit. The scars, the color of gums, run in ever-widening streams from his forearms to his shoulders and down both sides of his body to his ankles. In January 1963, when he was 17, Read More....
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