Capital District Area Labor Federation (CDALF) and Northeast New York Coalition for Occupational Safety & Health (NENYCOSH), with affiliated Unions and community partners, will be observing Workers Memorial Day. They will come together to honor injured and fallen workers from around Albany and New York State.
Wednesday, April 28th | 12 pm (EDT) | Academy Park, Albany
For those unable make it in person, the event will also be streamed via Facebook • More details
Several organisations, including the United Support and Memorial for Workplace Fatalities, the Center for Construction Research and Training, the Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health, NENYCOSH, the National Council on Occupational Safety and Health and Global Worker Watch have compiled the largest open-access data set of individual workplace fatalities collected in the United States to date.
Also published is a listing of the details of 1,600 of the approximately 4,000-5,000 workers who die every year from a work-related injury in the United States.
