Madeleine Le is the counsel for occupational safety and health from the Regional Office of the Solicitor in Dallas. Negotiating the agreement was a team effort that involved OSHA’s Directorate of Enforcement Programs; and attorneys from the Regional Office of the Solicitor in Dallas, Philadelphia, Denver and Boston as well as the Division of Occupational Safety and Health.
It was around 4:30 in the afternoon on March 25, 1911. Several hundred workers, mostly young women, were nearing the end of their Saturday shift at a blouse or “shirtwaist” factory in New York City. No one is quite sure how, but a massive fire erupted and spread quickly.
