(Undated)– The Iowa Federation of Labor is honoring people who died on the job in the last year. The Iowa Division of Labor says the 57 workers who died on the job lived in all corners of the state – from Muscatine and Liberty, to Storm Lake, Des Moines and Cedar Rapids. They were truck drivers, software engineers, county court workers and grain elevator operators. Iowa Federation President Charlie Wishman says workers died in car accidents and from chemical exposure. Some lost their lives falling from high ladders or other on-the-job accidents that turned out to be fatal…
Wishman says the Iowa A-F-L continues to push for laws and policies that will make workplaces safer, so there will be fewer job-related deaths in the future…
There are more than 1-point-6 million Iowans in the workforce. The industry with the most workers in the state – almost 226-thousand people – is manufacturing.
(Courtesy Iowa News Service)
