Loss Control for Businesses
Safe workplaces have not always been a given. In Gilbert’s early days, businesses had a fatalistic view of work injuries, seeing them as an inevitable cost of business. Public opinion turned after large-scale catastrophes, such as the 1907 Darr Mines explosion in western Pennsylvania, which killed 239 miners, and the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire in a New York City garment factory, which killed 149 young girls and women.