Triangle_Shirt_Waste_Factory

Triangle Shirt Waste Factory The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire In 1911 a fire that broke out in The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory that ended in the death of 146 young employees. Many of these employees were young Jewish women that were engaged to be married. This tragic event was due to the company’s poor working conditions forcing many people in small workplaces with few exits. However in this fire there was more problems than just a few number of exits the employers that day decided to lock the doors in fear that the young women would steal company materials and leave during working hours because of this the a large number of workers perished in the fire. The owners, Isaac Harris and Max Blanck, were tried for manslaughter but were acquitted in 1914. This fire caught the attention of politicians and organizations that saw the need to regulate safety in the workplace. From this horrid tragedy formed American Labor Unions and labor laws that changed the fire, safety, young, working, must, made, labor, health, factory, employees, department, york, workplace, workers, women, unions, triangle, standards, shirtwaist, restrictions, prevent, number, new, legislature, lead, laws, hours, few, exits, during, doors, conditions, commission, began, 1911, workplaces