Workers Memorial Day-April 28th

[Tom Lehman]

Tomorrow is Workers Memorial Day for the Steelworkers and other
unionists.  Every April 28th we have little memorial services all over
the country for Steelworkers who have been killed at work in the past
year and in the more distant past.

One of my friends who had a close call with a ladle car of molten iron
some weeks ago called me this morning.  He's hoping that he will be able
to get back to work in a few weeks.  So Workers Memorial Day is also a
good time to remember some of those close calls that we all have had.
Sometimes its just a matter of being in the wrong place at the wrong
time when something breaks.  Other times there are environmental factors
or human factors like stress and fatigue that contribute to accidents in
the lean, mean and downsized steel industry.

Tom