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Author
Fire Engineering
Title
Triangle Shirtwaist Toll of 145 is Still Largest for U.S. Industrial Fires.
Journal
Fire Engineering, Vol. 130, No. 8, 55-58, August 1977
Keywords
industrial fires | death | high rise buildings | fire fighters | fire fighting | building fires | garments | manufacturing | disasters
Identifiers
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory (occupied the upper three floors of the Ashe building, a ten-story commercial loft building on the corner of Washington Place and Green Street in Manhattan), New York City, New York, March 25, 1911; locked exit doors; building code violations; grossly unsafe working conditions