[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 43 (Tuesday, April 19, 1994)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
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                    TRIBUTE TO WORKERS MEMORIAL DAY

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                        HON. THOMAS M. FOGLIETTA

                            of pennsylvania

                    in the house of representatives

                        Tuesday, April 19, 1994

  Mr. FOGLIETTA. Mr. Speaker, I rise on this occasion to salute Workers 
Memorial Day which is this Thursday, April 21. In Philadelphia, Workers 
Memorial Day will be commemorated with a program to be held at the 
Sheetmetal Workers Hall in my district. This event, cosponsored by the 
Philadelphia Area Project on Occupational Safety and Health [PHILAPOSH] 
and the Philadelphia AFL-CIO, will be attended by hundreds of labor 
leaders, and will honor those workers in the Philadelphia Tri-State 
area who lost their lives in 1993.
  Mr. Speaker, each day, toxic substances, explosions, and other 
hazards injure more than 20,000 workers, and each year, more than 
100,000 American workers die from job related injuries and diseases. 
These are 100,000 deaths that should not happen, and 100,000 reasons 
for the Congress to pass comprehensive workplace safety reform 
immediately. H.R. 1280, the Comprehensive Occupational Safety and 
Health Reform Act, will take massive steps toward protecting the 
American worker from danger in the workplace by strengthening job 
safety and reporting requirements on employers, and encouraging the 
Secretary of Labor to take a more proactive role in identifying and 
correcting work safety problems.
  We have already lost too many relatives, friends, and coworkers to 
senseless, avoidable deaths. The time has come to remember the purpose 
of Workers Memorial Day and to honor the memories of those who have 
left us by passing comprehensive OSHA reform now.

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