07/17/2025
The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Locked In. Burned Alive.
March 25, 1911. Fire tore through the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in NYC.
The doors were locked.
The ladders didn’t reach.
In 30 minutes, 146 people—mostly young immigrant women—were dead.
They didn’t die from fire.
They died from neglect.
At the time, over 100 workers were dying every day on the job. But this fire forced the country to face the cost of ignoring safety. It sparked a movement.
Frances Perkins watched the factory burn. She never forgot. She became the first U.S. Secretary of Labor and a leading figure in the fight to protect our workforce.
It took until 1970 for the OSH Act to become law. That fight still isn’t over.
Worker lives are not disposable.
No one should die to protect someone else’s profit.
Safety doesn’t just happen.
It’s something we do.
Protect yourself. Protect your crew.
Draw the line.
A safe workplace is a right—fight for it.
