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:: Sunday, February 13, 2005 ::
The Original "No Exit" : The Triangle Shirt Waist Factory Fire Workers Comp Insider
In the rush of events, we may succomb to the notion that we are constantly seeing things for the first time. In two previous blogs, we mentioned employers who locked exits to prevent theft after hours, leaving cleaning and maintenance crews vulnerable to disaster. Well, the most famous incident of locked exits occurred on March 25, 1911: the Triangle Shirt Waist factory fire in New York City that killed 146 workers, mostly women. The fire led directly to an unlikely alliance between the reform movement and Tammany Hall and became a catalyst for a paradigm shift in safety standards.------------------------------------------- posted 12:32 PM :: reference link ::
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