UKIAH, CA., 4/23/19 — Every year across the nation Workers’s Memorial Day is commemorated on April 28, to honor those who have died and been seriously injured while on the job. And every year since 1999 the day has been commemorated in Mendocino County. This year a ceremony at the Community Foundation of Mendocino will honor two men who died while working in Mendocino County, Battalion Chief Matthew Burchett, the 42 year old Utahan who was killed fighting the Ranch fire last summer, and Guadalupe Becerra, 55 of Fort Bragg, a logging truck driver who was killed after an accident near Yorkville on Aug. 31.

Workers’ Memorial Day was begun by the AFL-CIO in 1989 to honor the thousands killed and injured on the job each year, and highlight worker safety — the day is also the anniversary of the enactment of the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OSHA).

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Kate Maxwell is the publisher and a founder of The Mendocino Voice. She lives inland but goes to the ocean as much as possible.

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