New York City Friday marked the 100th anniversary of one of its worst disasters: A fire at the Triangle ... The appalling safety conditions in the Triangle factory became a rallying cry for ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP)-- The centennial commemoration of the Triangle shirtwaist factory ... The tragedy prompted many improvements in fire safety across the country, such as sprinkler ...

It became a touchstone for the organized labor movement, spurring fire-safety laws and shedding light on the lives of immigrant workers. A damaged elevator shown after the Triangle Shirtwaist ...

And No. 5 on that list were strikes tied to workers getting their initial union contract – a sign ... safety agency – wasn’t created until 1970. And ponder the site of the Triangle Fire ...

March 25, 1911 started off like any other Saturday at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory ... equipment of that era. In the fire’s aftermath, workplace safety issues that were once decried as ...

Anne Morgan and Alva Belmont hosted a meeting at the Metropolitan Opera House to demand action on fire safety. More than 350,000 people participated in a funeral march for the Triangle dead. Three ...

Only 110 years ago, this now-vertical classroom and office building was once the site of the Triangle Shirtwaist ... in eight more laws covering fire safety, factory inspection, and sanitation ...

On March 25, 1911 a devastating inferno consumed the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York's lower ... This would have been a prime opportunity to mandate modern fire safety techniques and insurance ...

On March 25, 1911, at the end of a six-day, 52-hour workweek, a fire broke out on the eighth floor of the Triangle Shirtwaist ... of the American Society of Safety Engineers (now the American ...