DOL To Honor Workers Whose Jobs Claimed Their Lives, Marking Workers Memorial Day – FSM

DOL To Honor Workers Whose Jobs Claimed Their Lives, Marking Workers Memorial Day

WASHINGTON, DC– On April 28, 1970, the nation first observed Workers Memorial Day at a time when an estimated 38 people died on the job in the U.S. each day. More than a half century later, this annual tribute endures as do the determined efforts of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration and Mine Safety and Health Administration to help protect the lives of our nation’s workers.

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