KEIGHLEY people are being invited to attend ceremonies to mark International Workers Memorial Day on Friday, April 28.
Keighley Trades Union Council is organising the gatherings under the motto “remember the dead: fight for the living”.
Student representatives from Holy Family School will be among those gathering at 11am in Cliffe Castle Park to a commemorative cherry tree near the main museum entrance.
At noon the focus will move to Town Hall Square, where there is a garden dedicated to Keighley man Steven Allen and others killed in the workplace. A bugler will play.
Steven was 23 when he died at work, on March 9, 2007, when his head was crushed by a grab machine on a Bradford building site.
Any subsequent court hearing in 2012 his employers were fined more than £100,000 for causing his death.
The company admitted breaching health and safety law but refused to acknowledge that its failings led to Steven’s death.
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