...The Triangle Factory Fire took place on March 25, 1911. It made history by being the most deadly workplace fire to have ever occured in New York. The flames that attacked the top three floors of the Asch building killed 176 people. Families were left devastated and citizens were horrified. Most of the people that worked in that building were immigrants. They moved from another country, many wanting a better life. What was life actually like for the brave people who sailed across the ocean, hoping for change? Between the years 1900 and 1915 over 15 million immigrants arrived in America. This is about equal to the number of immigrants who arrived in the previous forty years combined. The majority of newcomers came from non English speaking countries. It was during this time of immigration that the Triangle Factory Fire took place. Most of the people working in the Asch building at this time were Italian or Jewish. Jewish families were trying to escape the prosecution and economic hardships that were taking place in their home countries. Italians came across the sea with the promise of wealth and prosperity in America. (Haddix 283)...
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...The Triangle Factory Fire Was the Perfect Storm On March 25th, 1911 at 4:45 P.M., workers on the 8th floor of the Asch Building are getting ready for quitting time and are standing around idly and conversing with one another. Although it is unknown exactly how the fire started, it is assumed that a worker flicked a cigarette ash into one of the baskets of spare cloth under the desks. And while the Asch Building itself was fireproof, the contents unfortunately were not. The fire consumed the table above it and continued to spread out. The workspace on the 8th floor had perfect conditions for a fire, overcrowded and stuffed full of flammable cloth. Locked doors and doors that opened inward instead of outward also caused many deaths. Many...
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...How Does the Triangle Factory Fire Effect us Today? The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire was tragic moment for the city of New York. You could have done many things to not start the fire. People don’t know for sure how it started, but we people today think a cigar was thrown into a bin which caused the fire. How does this affect our lives today? Well it does because this tragedy brought widespread attention to the dangerous sweatshop conditions of factories, and led to the development of a series of laws and regulations that better protected the safety of workers. 36 laws were enacted after the fire. Many health and safety laws enacted. 146 people died on March 25, 1911.The 36 laws enacted covered improved sanitation conditions such as...
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...Survivors of the Triangle Factory Fire Most people that were on the 8th, 9th, and 10th of the floors Triangle Factory during the fire did not survive. Within eighteen minutes the fire was over and 146 people died. Those who did survive were left to live with the memories and agony of the tragic event. Some of the survivors were even willing to do interviews and tell about about their experiences. Josephine Nicolosi was a blouse maker working on the eighth floor when the fire started. A cutter named Sal had a match on the table and yelled “It’s a fire,” but he usually joked about it so Josephine didn't realize it was real until he threw a bucket of water at it and flames started shooting up. She immediately ran towards the windows with a crowd of other girls but she was too scared to jump. Leo Brown, the mechanist, yelled to the girls “Get on the side, I have a key!” Josephine walked through the door with him along with others trying to escape the flames. When they got out side one of her friends said “Thank God we are not like them, we’re alright.” Her friend walked over to one of...
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...The Triangle Factory fire was the most dangerous thing that had ever happened in New York, in 1911. Over 146 people died in this tragedy and 71 were injured and survived. There were many conditions and hazards that made so many people die. People have said that the fire had spread under the door, but how? Isn’t the door low enough? No because there were so many flammable objects in the factory, so this means that the fire had spread because there were papers,boxes,and even plastic. The building wasn't in good condition in the first place. They had very poor working conditions in those factories. But some witnesses said the doors were locked so they couldn’t get out. Also people on the ninth floor were to high up so people could not...
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...Triangle Factory Fire safety issues. The triangle factory fire was one of the most tragic events in New York, up until September 11th of 2001. 146 bodies were identified, any others were burnt in the fire or too massacred to tell who it was. No one knows exactly how the fire was started. There are theories, but for it to have gone the way it did, the conditions of the building, and the people, couldn't have been safe. The women who worked at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, had apparently been asking for a wage increase, (then only making 6$ an hour.) and better fire safety. Only their pay was increased, and the hazardous way things worked in the Asch building pursued. Doorways were only able to have one person go down at...
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...New York, and one of the deadliest in US history. No one knew that the tiny spark of a cigarette would cause 146 deaths in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. The negligence of proper fire safety equipment, poor building design, absence of an appropriate fire escape, and substandard evacuation routine caused innocent lives to wither in the inferno. Disregarding proper safety measures had a resounding effect in the tragedy. As Abramowitz was taking his coat and hat from a nearby peg, he noticed the fire. The fire that would ultimately burn and destroy the factory. Dinah Lipschitz, a worker at Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, tried desperately to alert the staff above her...
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...The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire that occurred in 1911 was a huge tragedy and led to discussion of why safety regulations are important. The girls couldn’t escape because the made assumptions about the moral character of the works and locked the doors that led to the fabric so the workers didn’t steal any. The fire killed 148 people because there was no escape route; so most of the people either jumped out the window or burned in the fire. If there had been safety regulations in the factory then there would have been fire escape doors like there are now in this generation. These immigrants came to America to work, so they could make their own American Dream possible. The American Dream wasn’t possible for the factory workers, because the safety regulations prohibited them from being happy at work. The American Dream for them was to be able to go to work and feel safe and secure in their workplace. Safety regulations in the factory would have allowed the workers to have the American Dream of being comfortable and safe in their work place, live the pursuit of happiness, and want to continue living and working in America. By having safety...
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...During the industrial revolution this policy of safety wasn't followed through deeming it as a curse. There were multiple violations such as the door blockage so if there were to be a fire there would be many casualties because of the safety hazard. An incessant that represents this is "The Triangle Shirt Factory Fire" which had 114 casualties"". Since factories were requiring employees people lined up...
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...The deadliest workplace accident in New York City's history on March 25th, 1911 was the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.(1) Which killed 146 of 500 employees, mostly young female immigrants from Europe working long hours for low wages. The young women died from unsafely inadequate, precautions, and lack of fire escapes. The ten-story building known as Brown Building in which the fire occurred was owned by Max Blanca and Issa Harris. Housing for the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory was on the top three floors. Triangle Shirtwaist employees worked hard from 7a.m. until 8p.m. with one thirty minute break for lunch.(2) Subcontractors paid employees extremely low wages which employees would work long hours and many worked six days a week in order...
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...left,” (Marrin 114). This terrible thought went through many young women’s, men’s, and even little girl’s heads as the flames grew and grew when three floors of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company were on fire on March 25, 1911. Burning clothes fell on people’s heads due to the kerosene that was everywhere in the factory (Lieurance 12). The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire was one of the most eventful and influential in New York’s and America’s history. The fire occurred on the top three floors of the ten story Asch Building, which was supposedly fireproof on the outside, but on the inside, not so much. Although devastating, The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire positively influenced and changed many labor laws and fire safety regulations, making working conditions safer and more fair for future generations. Many immigrants coming to America in the early 1900s came for a better life. Getting a job at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company was highly desired due to the nice building in which the factory was located (Zwonitzer). Most immigrants, even those as young as 14, worked to earn money to support their families in the new country (Zwonitzer). Once the immigrants arrived in America they started...
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...The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire was one of the most tragic accidents that had happened in New York City. On March 25, 1911, is the day when the perishing fire occurred. 4:30 was when work had just finished at the factory. 4:45 is when the fire department was alerted to the fire. In between those two times, the fire had occurred. This was one of the most unforgettable moments in history. 146 people were killed by the fire, either by how potent the smoke was, or perished in the fire, or they had decided to jump from the ninth floor. 60 of the workers decided to jump to their death, rather than perish into the fire. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory building was a 10-story building. This building was originally called the Asch building but...
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...Shirtwaist Factory Fire; Was is really an “accident?”- March 25th, 1911 It was a normal day in New York City, workers of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company were going about their business as usual. As the work day came to an end, the bell rings, and workers grab their things and get ready to leave. Eva Harris, local seamstress, smells burning and instinctively shouts “fire!” Workers ring the tenth floor to warn them about the fire, instead of warning the ninth floor as well… workers scatter in panic; the ninth floor was never notified. As the fire approached the ninth floor, factory owner Isaac Harris rushed to them. However the door standing between him and the ninth floor was barricaded with a barrel or motor oil. The call to the fire station...
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...The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire was the loss of one hundred and forty-six women in the Asch building on March 25th, 1911. The fire started on the eighth floor of the building at four forty PM and spread upwards to the ninth and tenth floors. While the workers attempted to get out, the doors were locked and one only swung inwards. This trapped in the masses of women that were trying to get out. So, with them realizing they were trapped in they made the hard decision of how they wanted to die, either burning to death or jumping out the windows. While some women got out to the fire escape it was useless because it began to melt and it was already two stories from the ground. After thirty minutes of the top three floors being up in flames, the fire had died down (Triangle Factory of 1911, Slide Six)....
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...The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire was one of the greatest tragedies of the progressive era. All started with the labor movement originated from poor working conditions in those years. Workers were usually overexploited and underpaid. One of the companies that more was noticed was the factory of Triangle Shirtwaist located in the ninth and tenth of Asch Building (NYC). The company, under the ownership of Max Black and Isaac Harris, produced blouses known as shirtwaists. The company usually hired young immigrant women paying between 7 and 12 dollars for working 9 hours each day of the week. The working conditions in the factory were difficult. The female workers had to work as fast as possible and without making mistakes or even being able...
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