Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
On this day in 1911 the famous Triangle Stirwaist Factory caught fire and killed 148 garmet workers. The fire, started by unknown causes, origanated on the 8th floor. Most of the workers on the 9th and 10th floors recieved ample warning, and were able to escape the burning building. However the warning did not reach the young, largely immigrant seamtresses on the 8th floor in time. This floor only had one exit, a poorly connected fire escape, that soon fell from the weight of so many people on it at one time. The regular doors were looked during working hours to keep the women from leaving their posts, but no one had taken the time to unlock it, as the owners escaped to the roof for safety as soon as the fire broke out. Many of the women, upon realizing that they were trapped, broke the facotry windows and jumped to their deaths, the ones that didn’t were over came by the smoke and fire.
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This event shocked and horrified the public, being the worst industrial accident to date, and resulted in the push for safety reform for factory workers. In October of that same year the American Society of Safety Engineers was founded. The owners of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory were aquitted of criminal charges, but were ordered by the civil courts to pay reparations of $75 per victim to the families of the deceased. Today the Ash Building, as it is now called it a National Historic Landmark, located iat 23-29 Washington Place, Manhattan, New York.
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