Workers Memorial Day Events Set in Oakland and Downey

An official of the federal Occupational Safety and Heath Administration will be the featured speaker today at a Workers Memorial Day event in Oakland. Ken Nishiyama Atha, OSHA regional administrator, will speak about the spate of industrial deaths nationwide in the past month and the need for strengthening OSHA to protect workers from health and safety hazards. Worksafe, an advocacy organization for worker safety that is sponsoring the event, said three recent incidents in the energy sector — coal, oil drilling and refining — resulted in 35 workers killed or several severely injure...