Statewide Iowa — Today (Friday) is Workers Memorial Day and labor groups across the state have ceremonies planned to honor those who lost their livers on the job in the last year.
The Iowa Labor Center’s Paul Iverson says year-after-year there is one connection between the deaths.
Fifty workers died on the job in Iowa in the last year. They were as young as 20 and as old as 84. Iverson has been putting together small obituaries for the last six years for each worker who died in the state in an attempt to remember they are not just statistics.
Among the 50 people who died on the job, nine were from injuries related to a fall. Around 10 were struck by cars, and several were hit by distracted drivers.
