Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire

On March 25, 1911, a Saturday afternoon, as the workday was coming to an end the Triangle Shirtwaist Companies factory in New York City burned, killing 145 workers. The factory was located on the eighth, ninth, and tenth floors of the Asch Building in a neighborhood of Manhattan. The floor the employees were working on had a number of exits, including a freight elevator, a fire escape (that crumbled), and stairways; however, rapidly increasing flames quickly prevented workers from using those exits. The only remaining exit was a door to the Washington Place, but disappointingly it was mostly always locked; this allowed managers to check the women's purses at the end of every day to prevent theft of product, sewing thread, and other materials used to make the Shirtwaist. The fire department arrived and attempts to extend the ladders, but they would only reach the sixth floor, which was approximately 30 feet short of the floor the workers were trapped on. This tragedy brought forth attention to the hazardous sweatshop conditions of factories, as well as brought on the development of new laws and…

The tragedy that was the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire (Triangle Fire) could be attributed to a plethora of cumulative factors that brought about the deaths of numerous factory workers. The event referred to as, “The Fire That Changed America” (Argersinger 1), occurred just a short time after the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory strike (Triangle Strike), which addressed the horrific conditions faced by the factory workers and their right to unionize; and confirmed the claims of the Triangle Strike…

1911, The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, which occupied the top three floors of the ten story Asch building in New York City, caught on fire, killing 146 people within fifteen minutes and seriously injuring 70 more. Those affected were mostly young Jewish and Italian immigrant women between the ages of sixteen and twenty three. At the time, the space was occupied by the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, a clothing sweatshop run by Max Blanck and Isaac Harris. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory was a large…

only in New York City, but in the history of the American industry transpired. This horrendous event will forever be known as The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. Due to the inhumane working conditions and the rapidly spreading fire, 145 of the 600 employees had died an extremely miserable death during the disastrous event from the fire, smoke inhalation, or falling or jumping to their deaths. The 455 fortunate survivors were not so fortunate; they were left to remember those agonizing moments…

I Think I Know The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire was an event that occurred in 1911, at a factory in Manhattan, New York. Many of the garment worker in the factory were killed from either the fire itself or because they jumped out of the building in an attempt to get away from the flames. This event, although horrible, lead to much needed changes in safety standards. I remember briefly coving this disaster in one of my history class and then again in this coarse but I have never gone in depth with…

“It was the deadliest workplace accident in New York City’s history. A dropped match on the 8th floor of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory sparked a fire that killed over a hundred innocent people trapped inside. The private industry of the American factory would never be the same.”-PBS.org Many men and women who worked in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory were immigrants who came to America seeking the “American Dream”. They wanted to make a life for themselves and their families, but many of them…

The Triangle Shirtwaist Company factory fire took place in New York City on March 25, 1911, killing 145 workers. This is a very infamous incident that happened in the American industrial history because the deaths could have been avoided; most of the victims died as a consequence of neglected safety features and locked doors within the factory building. This tragedy finally brought awareness to the dangerous sweatshop environments within the factories, and led to the growth of a series of…

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire The triangle shirtwaist factory fire was one of the most tragically industrial accidents in the history of the United States. It happened in the city of New York in 1911, killing 146 workers, including immigrant women. Many of them died publicly by throwing themselves, out of the upper story windows of the burning building. The fire made clear in a powerful way that industrial accidents had causes whose roots lay in employers’ near total power over the…

On Sunday, March 25, 1911, a factory caught fire on the eighth floor of the Asch building. One hundred and forty six people died in this thirty minute tragic event. “Rows and rows of tightly packed young women working in a cramped sweatshop making shirtwaists (blouses with buttons along the front). They earned roughly $15 a week. A large number of them were immigrants, speaking little or no English.”(Part 1). The Shirtwaist factory building was packed with long wooden tables covering almost all…

Kaleabe Abera Mr. Perez US History March 7, 2017 On Saturday, March 25, 1911, a fire erupted in a 10 story factory building. The top floors of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company building, in New York city, caught fire killing 146 of the 500 workers. The dead consisted of mainly of young women. The doors for the fire escape were locked and the firefighters ladders couldn’t reach to top floors. Many of the workers prefered to jump to their deaths rather than suffocating. The International Ladies’…