Workers Memorial Day honors those killed on the clock [Video]

HARRISBURG, Pa. — April 18 is nationally recognized at Workers Memorial Day, a day that honors the men and women who have been killed while on the clock.

For more than 50 years, OSHA has honored people killed in the workplace.

Kevin Chambers, the area director of OSHA Harrisburg, says the day also commemorates workers killed prior to 1971.

“April 29, 1971, was OSHA’s first day after the Occupational Safety and Health Act was put into law,” Chambers said.

On average, 13 workers a day are killed in the United States.

OSHA reported 41 fatalities in Pennsylvania alone over the past year, a number Chambers says could’ve been prevented.

“In recent years there’s been about 5,500 workers a year that’ve been killed on the job,” Chambers …