Wednesday, March 25, 11:30AM-1PM: On March 25, 1911, 146 workers—mostly young, immigrant women—were killed in a horrific fire ...

As David Von Drehle, author of Triangle: The Fire That Changed America, has explained, the situation on that day was the perfect storm for tragedy: a clothing factory is inherently full of flammable ...

She escaped the Triangle Shirtwaist fire of 1911, in which 146 of her co-workers perished, and dedicated the rest of her life ...

On March 25, 1911, 146 workers perished when a fire broke out in a garment factory in New York City. For 90 years, it stood as New York's deadliest workplace disaster. Bettmann/CORBIS On March 25, ...

A little more than a century ago, in the rapidly developing United States of America, nearly 1,000 workers died on the job every week, on average. Collapsed mines buried them alive. Bursting steam ...

A commemoration Tuesday to the 1911 fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory — which killed 146 workers, transformed the American labor movement, inspired modern building codes and brought about ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... On March 25, 114 years ago, a New York City factory fire killed 146 workers. The dead included my Great Aunt Fannie Lansner. The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire ...

On Saturday, March 25, 1911, 146 workers, mostly young immigrant women, died in a factory fire in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. Although workplace deaths weren’t uncommon in the ...