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The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
1911 · 146 garment workers died, most of them young women
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- Brown Building, Washington Place and Greene Street, New York City, United States
A fire broke out on the eighth floor of a garment factory late on a Saturday afternoon. Doors to the stairwells had been locked to stop workers taking breaks, the single fire escape collapsed, and ladders reached only to the sixth floor.
One hundred and forty-six people died, most of them Italian and Jewish immigrant women aged sixteen to twenty-three. The outrage that followed produced dozens of new fire-safety and labour laws in New York State.
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