• brygphilomena@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    As someone else pointed out. The triangle shirtwaist factory fire.

    But as another example of businesses doing shitty things that led to people dying. The Iroquois Theater fire in Chicago. They didn’t want poor people changing seats to nicer ones so locked the doors to those areas when the play started and they bribed people to not finish their fire safety equipment but still get approved to open. Hundreds died.