More than 100 workers who died from work-related injuries last year in British Columbia are being remembered Monday in ceremonies across the province.
The April 28 Day of Mourning begins in downtown Vancouver at Jack Poole Poole Plaza, where the Olympic Cauldron will be lit at 10 a.m.
There were 128 work-related deaths across the province in 2013, according to WorkSafeBC.
Most deaths occurred in high-risk industries such as manufacturing, in which 33 people were killed, and construction, which cost 30 lives.
Traumatic injuries made up 39 deaths, motor vehicle accidents were the cause of 22 deaths and 67 deaths resulted from occupational disease — mainly asbestos exposure that occurred decades ago.
Furthermore, six young workers ranging in age from 15 to 24 died on the job last year in B.C.
Vancouver's morning commemoration includes two speakers who lost family members on the job. Among them is Linda Dorsett, whose husband Sean drowned after diving off a boat to retrieve an anchor while working as a commercial fisherman and diver.
"Just because you think you know all the risks doesn't mean you can prepare yourself for that awful knock at the door," she said in a statement.
"When it happens, you think you're the first and only one to ever feel such pain. Sadly, you're not. I hope today's ceremony gives those left behind a bit of hope and that people are listening."
