The 1911 triangle shirtwaist factory fire which killed 146 garment workers shocked the public and galvanized the labor movement.
Why were the doors of the triangle shirtwaist factory locked.
Answer they had to supply their own needles thread irons and sometimes even their own sewing machines.
Fire escape and fire doors were locked in a fire these should not be locked and they should be fitted with panic b.
The triangle factory had just one functional elevator and two staircases leading outside.
One opened onto greene street and the other onto washington place.
Max blanck did not want the girls walking out with the garments.
However to prevent theft the owners had locked washington place exit.
The triangle shirtwaist factory fire in the greenwich village neighborhood of manhattan new york city on march 25 1911 was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city and one of the deadliest in u s.
The nighst of labor failed because of strikes burnouts and in 1911 there was a fire at the triangle shirtwaist factory to encourgae labor union growth.
And doors were locked to keep them from taking unsanctioned.
He did 17 violations of the new york and the national fire code.
The fire caused the deaths of 146 garment workers 123 women and girls and 23 men who died from the fire smoke inhalation or falling or jumping to their deaths.