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A fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City killed 146 people on this day in history, March 25, 1911 — leading to a host of worker safety reforms.
On that fateful March 25, 1911, when 146 people lost their lives in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire changing working conditions in New York forever, those who rushed to help and save the factory workers were largely Irish, writes Dermot McEvoy.
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A plaque marks the Greenwich Village building that was once home to Manhattan’s Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. When fire broke out on the ninth floor on March 25, 1911, killing 146 of the factory's 500 employees.
“Talking to the Girls,” a new anthology of essays on the disastrous 1911 fire that killed nearly 150 workers, uses the past as a window to the present.
The Triangle Fire website at the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives has received the American Industrial Hygiene Association’s 2022 Health & Safety Virtual Exhibit of the Year Award.Recognizing excellence in communicat