The flags at the Town of Strathmore Municipal Building and the fire department are at half staff today.

According to the Worker’s Compensation Board of Alberta, in Alberta 178 people died in 2021 of workplace injury or illness.

Each year on April 28 the time is taken to pay respects and remember workers who have been killed, injured or suffered illness as a result of work-related incidents.

Below is a breakdown of Alberta’s fatalities:

• Trauma – 41

• Asbestosis and asbestos-related pleural disease – 32

• Cancer – 32

• COVID-19 – 31

• Motor vehicle accident – 22

• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) – 7

• Other Illnesses – 7

• Cardiac – 6

 

Learn more about Day of Mourning here: https://bit.ly/2GIpMFv