COMMEMORATION services will be held to remember people who died while working.

Waltham Forest Trades Council will mark Workers’ Memorial Day with a series of events on Friday, April 28.

The first gathering will take place at 5:45am at the Low Hall depot in South Access Road, Walthamstow. It will be a commemoration for the late Kazys Kaniauskas, 54, of Barking. He died in a dust cart accident on the North Circular Road in 2014.

At 11am a commemoration service for Marian Nemit, 21, will be held at Bakers Arms in Leyton. Mr Nemit who was from Romania died while carrying out construction work on a shop refurbishment in 2015.

At 1pm an event will be held at Waltham Forest Town Hall in Forest Rd, Walthamstow. Among those that will be remembered at the ceremony is Marian Iancu, 39, a Romanian living in Leyton, who was killed while working in a warehouse in Barking in November 2015.  

Lukasz Costazzo who was killed in 2015 by a falling tree on land controlled by the council and Andrezej Rokita, 55, who was killed while working in Midland Road, Leyton will also be remembered.

Family members of those killed while working in the borough are expected to attend the events.

Every year Waltham Forest Trades Council marks the day to remember those killed, injured, disabled and made unwell in the workplace.

Last year over 1,000 people died while at work in the UK, according to GM Hazards.

Dave Knight, President of Waltham Forest Trades Council, said: ”We demand strong laws and much stronger enforcement but this must be ensured by a strong trade union movement so join a union and get involved.”

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