Workers Memorial Day – 2025

The families and friends of Western Wisconsin workers will gather at Green Island Park in La Crosse on Monday, April 28, 2025, at 5pm to honor workers who perished while at work and to call for action on hazards that cause unnecessary injury, illness, and death.

In 2023, 5,283 workers in the United States died on the job. While this is a decrease from the tragic total of 2022, the reduction only slightly lowers the annual death rate, from one death every 96 minutes in 2022 to one death every 99 minutes in 2023.

More than 1,000 workers in six states and Washington, D.C., are losing their jobs at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), the federal occupational safety research agency. By shutting down this important organization, American workers will lose important safety nets and even more could die on the job. Every NIOSH research center is closing, and the few remaining employees no longer have the resources to do their jobs.

This event is part of International Workers Memorial Day, held annually on April 28th, with thousands of groups around the globe uniting to honor the fallen and to remind everyone that “One worker’s life lost is one too many.” The Workers Memorial Day theme for this year is “Fight for Our Lives: Safe Jobs Now.”

Enacted in 1970, the Occupational Safety and Health Act and Mine Safety and Health Act promises workers the right to a safe job. Nobody should break that promise.

Registration for the event is not required but does assist organizers in planning the service and made be completed here:
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Please join us on Workers Memorial Day as we continue the fight for safe jobs.