The huge rise in cancer and heart problems in this century are largely environmental, they're not individual. These guys lived longer than Ed Prophet so maybe their lives were worth forty cents a day. Francis Kidd died of a heart attack following exposure to carbon monoxide while working as a union boilermaker at Rouge Steel. We are marking his passing with a memorial this year because he died due to unsafe working conditions. Like most workplace deaths this one passed without much public notice.
Thousands die from work every year.
The media only focus on those where several die at the same time or there's a spectacular explosion. Death at work is business as usual. Kill someone with a gun and the state will kill you or incarcerate you. Our shared experiences and our solidarity are our strength. We need to build our unions, organize the unorganized, and understand that an injury to one is an injury to all.