OSHA Memorializes Fallen Workers in Events Around the Country

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To commemorate Workers' Memorial Day, OSHA this week hosted an observance at the U.S. Department of Labor headquarters to honor workers who have died on the job and renew a commitment to making work sites across the country safer.
"We can and we must save more lives – with even stronger enforcement, even better training and outreach," Acting Secretary of Labor Seth D. Harris said in his address. "We must use all our tools to protect every worker – whether English is their first language or not, whether they started yesterday or 30 years ago, whether they're a full-time employee or a temporary or contingent worker."




As part of a panel discussion, Michaels joined Chris Owens, executive director of National Employment Law Project, and Alma Couverthie, director of the Welcome Center and Education at CASA de Maryland, to discuss the importance of protecting temporary workers on the job.
Family members of fallen workers reflected on the lives of their lost loved ones. Danielle Dole spoke about her father, Sherman Lynn Holmes, who was struck and killed by a tree in 2011 while working for a logging company in Michigan. Bridgette Hubble Hester spoke about her husband, Jonce Hubble, a telecommunications tower climber in Alabama. Hubble and a coworker were both killed in 2010 when a bucket truck backed into the guyed wires of a communications tower on which he and his coworkers were working. Both men were killed when the tower collapsed.
Dole and Hester asked that their memories be honored through a renewed commitment to protecting the safety and health of workers, echoing Mother Jones' call to "Pray for the dead, and fight like hell for the living."
The ceremony ended with a moment of silence as the families, guests and Department of Labor staff gathered around the tree planted in Washington, D.C., two years ago as a memorial to America's fallen workers.

April 28 also marked the 42nd anniversary of OSHA and the dramatic improvements in workplace safety and health over OSHA's first four decades. In Workers' Memorial Day events around the country, OSHA is honoring the memories of those killed, disabled, injured or made sick by their jobs. 
(From OSHA Newsletter)


Trenton H. Cotney
Florida Bar Certified Construction Lawyer
Trent Cotney, P.A.
1211 N Franklin St
Tampa, FL 33602

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