The Triangle factory owners bought fire insurance to keep money in their pockets, rather than provide for workers’ safety by installing sprinklers – those were available then! If the Asch Building had sprinklers on March 25th, 1911, 146 people wouldn’t have died – people wouldn’t have jumped to their deaths. Workers go to work everyday, expecting to come home every night. And still, businesses think that profits for the owners are more important than ensuring safe working conditions that will allow workers to come home – that’s what’s strikes me as wrong.

Tags: Firefighting, Labor, Legislation, Occupational safety