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Von Drehle, David. The bodies of the jumpers fell on the fire hoses, making it difficult to begin fighting the fire. Search the Library of Congress digital image collection for photographs and prints of New York City at the time of the disaster. Records of the fire marshals investigation: long gone. Industrial safety--Law and legislation--United States. We have continued to enforce standards, and provide compliance assistance and training programs that help employers ensure all workers are safe on the job. On March 25, 1911, 146 workers perished when a fire broke out in a garment factory in New York City. So Patricia Leary of the Kheel Center painstakingly corrected every page. It was a routine day at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory until approximately 4:40PM, 15 minutes before quitting time, when a fire erupted on the 8th floor. We never found the missing volume, but that hardly dampened my excitement as I turned the first of more than 1,300 pages of recovered history. Follow OSHA on Twitter as @OSHA_DOL. These freely available online resources provide additional information on the topic. Only the most dramatic testimony and the verdictnot guiltyregistered more than a few paragraphs stashed in the back pages. Question 2 120 seconds Q. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire killed 146 workers and injured dozens more. The tragic incident left the public in shock and claimed the lives of countless factory workers. Triangle shirtwaist factory fire, fatal conflagration that occurred on the evening of March 25, 1911, in a New York City sweatshop, touching off a national movement in the United States for safer working conditions. Labor and relief organizations sprung into action. Conditions at the Triangle Factory, owned by Russian immigrants Max Blanck and Isaac Harris, were often deplorable and dangerous, but no different from most other factories. By the time the elevator made its way back, the fire was fully engaged on the eighth floor and quickly spreading to the ninth. Indeed, as I came to understand the factory, the pace of daily work and the intricate relationships inside the large, family-run business, I could see how the factory's scale and efficiency helped cause the tragedy. Workers in the factory, many of whom were young women recently arrived from Europe, had little time or opportunity to escape. Question 1 3 out of 3 points Which of the following is true regarding the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911? Additional works on this topic in the Library of Congress may be identified by searching the Library of Congress Online Catalog under appropriate Library of Congress subject headings. It was a true sweatshop, employing young immigrant women who worked in a cramped space at lines of sewing machines. Fort McHenry, one of the citys young lawyers, Francis Scott Key, witnessed the attack and penned the lyrics to The Star Spangled Banner. Nearly fifty years later, when Americans fought the Civil War, Maryland saw one of the wars bloodiest battles on September 17, 1862, by Antietam Creek at Sharpsburg. Many chose to leap from the building in desperation, instead of succumbing to the blaze and smoke, and died on the sidewalks below. Where did it happen? I found a sketch of Steuer's life in the Dictionary of American Biography, published in the early 1960s. In the late afternoon of March 25, 1911, as factory workers (mostly young immigrant women) of the Triangle Shirtwaist factory were receiving their paychecks and preparing to go home, a sudden fire broke out on the eighth floor. Now in its 50th year, OSHA has helped transform Americas workplaces in ways that have significantly reduced workplace fatalities, injuries and illnesses. Isaac Harris and Max Blanck What time of day did the fire break out and how did the timing of this event contribute to magnifying the disaster? Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire