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labor production instead of the wellbeing of the factory workers. The Triangle Waist Company, manufactured women’s clothing and was located in the heart of Manhattan. This company, owned by Max Blanck and Isaac Harris, occupied the floors of the Asch Building. The factory attracted many people in desperate need of work. This consequently led to the workers being taken advantage of by paying them very low wages. They often worked excessively long hours without adequate compensation, and the safety or work

produced shirtwaists, which are high-necked cotton blouses that working woman wore in 1911.These shirts resembled men’s shirts. The factory was located on the corner of Greene Street and Washington Place, Manhattan in the Asch building. There were ten floors in the Asch building but the factory was only on the 8th, 9th, and 10th floors. All of the workers who worked at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory were very young and were not treated well. They were all around 15 years old and were mostly Italian

March 25th, 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Company factory burned leaving 145 workers dead. Negated safety rules and regulations and the overall working conditions in the factory where illegal manual workers were paid close to nothing for working very long hours, were a known concern that was just looked over by the business managers in this “Sweatshop.” Fires, leading up to this tragedy, were looked passed on the count of government officials and business managers’ corrupt ways of running things

The date was March 25, 1911. It was a particularly warm spring evening in New York City. Located in the heart of Manhattan the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory was located on the last three floors of the Asch Building in the downtown area. The clock read 4:45p.m, fifteen minutes before the women working inside would be receiving their checks and then be let out for the night. Little did anybody know that in just a few short seconds it would be the site of the deadliest industrial disaster in the history

the tenth floor she saw multiple girls that had skirts on fire. Once Rose got help from someone else to get out of the building she saw her dad, and she just cried and cried but then she realized that her dad had fainted and at that moment she knew that she wasn't going back to work, so instead she went to college. The person who locked the doors preventing everyone at the building to get out tried everything to get her to keep it a secret and not tell anyone, but she would never keep it a secret because

March-25-1911 a factory fire which killed 146 workers out of 500 died when a fire broke out that could not be contained.With all the fire hazards in the building like the doors opening inward and not outward the elevator that only held 12 people at a time also narrow hallways that took to long to go through and doors with no explanation.Rose freedman 17 about to turn 18 was one the survivors of the fire and died at 107 to be the last survivor.Rose escaped by following people to the top of the roof

The Triangle Factory Fire and Work Safety The Triangle was undoubtedly one of the most tragic events in the worlds history. The not only is the fire a horrifying event, but the factory had no safety precautions and didn’t have any emergency exits and kept doors locked. Not only did this strike sorrow on the community, but it awakened people to realize that workplace safety is a serious thing and needs to be practiced. After the fire, people had opened their eyes to workplace safety. This fire

the time it happened, it built up not only in newspapers and rumors, but the streets filled with many people as they watched young women jump to their deaths, though hoping they would live. 200 women were trapped in the building, fewer than 20 women had actually escaped the building, when the doors had been locked on

On March 25, 1911, a Saturday afternoon, near closing time, a fire broke out in the Triangle Waist Company, on one of the top 3 floors of the ten story Asch Building. Within thirty minutes, 146 lives were lost, because of neglected safety features and locked doors. The fire is believed to have started by the careless use of a match from one of the cutters to get a smoke. Before ringing the fire alarm, the workers tried to extinguish the flames, but the flames quickly spread. It was the shirtwaists

Harris was engulfed in flames. The factory was located in the top 3 floors of the Asch building in Manhattan, New York. The terrific turn of events left firemen unable to rescue those inside. The exits were locked and the fire escapes were unable to support rescue support. This left many people jumping out of the windows to their death along with the multiple deaths already caused by the fire inside the building. Unfortunately, 146 lives were lost before any changes could