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fire drills in large companies, sprinkler systems in big buildings, and sturdy fire escapes. Since then OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) was created and work safety is made a priority. [That day] is remembered as one of the most infamous incidents in American industrial history, as the deaths were largely preventable–most of the victims died as a result of neglected safety features and locked doors within the factory building. The tragedy brought widespread attention to the dangerous

FACTORY FIRE After the Fire After the fire, the owners, Max Blanck and Isaac Harris, were instantly frowned upon for the death of the 146 people who lost their lives in the Triangle Factory Fire. Following the detest, the owners declared that the building was incombustible, and that the fire should not have occurred, using the Department of Building's statement of the matter to enhance their claim. However, the public pressured the city with an ultimatum, and demanded that a trial take place. The

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Incident was a tragic event that occured due to poor safety precautions. It occured in New York City on March 25, 1911 on the eighth and ninth floors of the Asch building and it is the deadliest industrial disaster of that city and it also considered one of the deadliest in US History. The factory normally employed about 500 workers, mostly young immigrant women, who worked nine hours a day on weekdays plus seven hours on Saturdays earning 2 dollars for a 14 hour work

On March 25, 1911, a fire broke out on the top floors of the 10-story Asch Building in lower Manhattan, New York. A fire that killed 146 of the 500 employees of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in what was considered one of the worst industrial disasters in the nation's history at that time. All died due to inadequate safety precautions and lack of fire escapes. This research paper will examine how this tragic fire changed the working labor laws as well as work safety and woman's rights. The Triangle

This means that the factory was not in a separate building, but in the top three floors of an office building. Student: Oh see how the text explained what is was! Whoever wrote this was smart. The Triangle Factory was on the eighth, ninth, and tenth floors of a building called the Asch Building. Teacher: Do you think that is important? Student: I think the 8th-10th floors are important, not the name of the building. Teacher: Did you know what a “loft” factory was? I am impressed that

Triangle Factory Fire The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire was one of the deadliest industrial disasters in New York City before September 11th, 2001. On 1911, approximately 140 to 147 people died in the fire which held no mercy for them. The day of the fire is commonly known as “The day it rained children”. The owners, Max Blanck and Isaac Harris, hired immigrated women who were young, poor, barely educated, and spoke very little English. These women were overworked and very underpaid, and yet they

owned by Max Blanck and Isaac Harris. The company was started by Blanck and Harris in 1900. Their company occupied the top three floors (8,9,10) of the Asch Building in Manhattan. Each floor of their company had hundreds of girls at sewing machines, the floors were very overcrowded. Many of the girls that worked at this company were

On the 25th of March in the year 1911 in the city of New York City, a tragic event took place. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory caught on fire inside of the work areas. The factory was located in the eighth, ninth, and tenth floors of the Asch Building on the corner of Washington Place and Greene Street on the island of Manhattan. This workplace was a real “sweatshop”. Its main employers were young immigrant women, who rarely spoke English. They worked 12 hours a day, everyday and only made a

the factory because the building was fireproof. But some say it started with a cigarette that was smoked inside and was thrown into the trash inside or, a cutter that flicked a hot ash into the air. Albert Marrin uses explicit meanings in the text by using a word the At is clearly stated and is not hard to realize what it means. Some of the explicit meanings Marrin uses in his text are “The manager should have cared more about the safety of the people and not the building, but at the time, workers

attack on the World Trade Center. It killed 146 people and most were women, the women worked in a hard and unsafe work environment and were mostly crowded. These working conditions were mostly neglected by owner of the factory and the owner of the building, but let's see what Albert Marrin an author of the book “Flesh and Blood So Cheap” know about the Triangle Fire