Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire

The article “147 Dead, Nobody Guilty” published by The Literary Digest magazine explores the tragic accident which happened in the factory of the Triangle Waist Company in 1911. The Asch building appeared to be on fire, while the workers were trapped inside. As a result of the accident, 147 persons, mostly women and girls, were killed by a fire. The owners of the Triangle Waist Company, Isaac Harris and Max Blanck, who went on trial for manslaughter were not found guilty of the tragedy.…

On March 25, 1911, a notoriously dangerous fire broke out in the Asch Building of the Triangle Waist Company causing great destruction and many lost lives. As stated in “Eyewitness at the Triangle,” I heard screams around the corner and hurried there. What I had seen before was not so terrible as what had followed. Up in the [ninth] floor girls were burning to death before our very eyes.” In such a short period of time, all the hard labor people did during their period of work went to waste as…

The fire itself was started, as so it is said, by a match being accidentally dropped on a pile of cloth in the work area, which is proof of the unsafe working conditions. The fire had occurred in the late afternoon on Saturday, March 25, 1911, when one of the employees noticed the fire and brought it to the attention of the rest of people on the eighth floor, where it had started. The workers tried to put out the fire with buckets of water, but it quickly began to spread to the bins of scrapped…

careless to check if all the safety equipment, 146 women burned to death with the exception of those who jumped from the 9th floor. There was no way of escaping the smoldering building because the doors were opening the wrong way, fire hoses didn't have enough water, and even the fire door was locked shut. Doesn’t this seem extreme? What if it was your daughter or wife in this building? Or what if … ...it was you. Americans need to take a stance supporting workplace safety. It is our privilege…

for many factory workers, this also included the workers at the triangle factory. Conditions of the factories and shops (near 500) were not held up to par because, most factory staff was made up of immigrants who came to America in search of the American dream and ended up in the ghettos trying to survive. The conditions of the factories were challenged and some changes were made, but as Samuel Gompers said, “women had to burn in order to spur government action on labor safety” (Triangle fire a…

In 1993, Sheldon Swartzentruber was hired as an employee of Gunite Corporation. In 1998, Swartzentruber was fired after coming into work with a “tattoo extending from his elbow to his wrist that depicted a burning cross and a hooded man” (Peeples & Elzweig 15) and refusing to cover it. Swartzentruber sued Gunite, a case that came to be known as Swartzentruber v. Gunite Corporation, on the account that he was receiving unfair treatment and prejudice against his religion in the Church of the…

the year 1908, the American Society mourned the lives of 172 students and two teachers who were trapped in by the fire that occurred at around nine o’clock in Lake View School. The fire was said to have escalated as a result of uncovered cables in the boiler room. The uncovered wires were exposed to woods which led to the fire outbreak in the basement of the school building. The fire incident led to the formulation of new laws and standards across all schools in the United States so as to deter…

The Tringale Fire The happenings in The Triangle Fire occurred during the beginning of the 1990’s. It was one of the worst and deadest accidents that happened in history. Set in New York during times that were difficult and having just one job was sometimes not enough. The women that were in this were struggling with having money for their families and being out in strikes was a danger for them, because they could lose their jobs. Women worked up to thirteen hours on sewing machines with very…

Burning Clothing Factory Protesting Workers Locked inside the building!!! The fire was located on the corner of Greene Street and Washington Place in Manhattan, New York. It happened on March twenty-fifth at 4:40 in the afternoon. Isaac Harris & Max Blanck are to blame people saying an exit was locked by the guards instructed by the owners to do so of 146 people killed. The fire is believed to have to been started by a cigarette during a break or some person who was careless enough to not put…

Times article available only one day after the fire, one witness exclaimed, “I only saw one man show. All the rest were girls. They stood on the windowsills tearing their hair out and handfuls and then they jumped. One girl held back after all the rest and clung to the window casing until the flames from the window below crept up to her and set her clothing on fire. Then she jumped far over the net and was killed instantly, like all the rest"(Triangle 2). On what was meant to be a calm March 25,…