Business During The 1900's And (OSHA)

Business During the 1900’s and (OSHA)

OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) was signed by Richard Nixon our 37th president on December 29th, 1970. OSHA is an act that was made to protect the worker from unethical construction business. A lot of old business were very unsafe and had unhealthy working condition. These businesses before OSHA were very unethical with the way they treated workers and what they put them through, they didn’t care about their employees at all.

Construction companies by themselves had approximately 14,000 workers killed every year on the job before OSHA was passed, this equals out to around 38 deaths per day. The number of deaths per year has greatly decreased to about 4,500, this is still

We still put a lot of construction workers in unsafe environments and working with very dangerous equipment. Before OSHA was created and passed by the president, workers had absolutely no safety while on the job. For example the Empire State Building Construction started on March 17, 1930. There is a bunch of unofficial rumors that hundreds of workers were killed in the process of building it. Although the official records is says only five people died. One was struck by a truck; this is why we now have people to help guide trucks during construction. Another fell down an elevator shaft, we now wear harness to hold ourselves up off the ground and have dangerous places taped off. The other was struck by a hoist and a third was killed by explosives, we now have all kinds of regulations when using explosives. The fifth fell from scaffolding, like in the other incident, construction workers now wear harnesses to help these kinds of situations. Even if that was the case and only 5 people died, there probably could have been as little as 0 deaths if OSHA was in act. While building the Empire State Building there was so many things that put the

We put these kids through some of the harshest working conditions; some of these kids would work 10 to 14 hour work shifts with little to no breaks and get little to no pay at all, these hours are longer than what almost the entire workforce works now and we get required breaks and lunches thanks to OSHA. These children growing up had childhood growing up; all these kids remember is working in awful factories and fields and never having any fun. Most of the kids were working around big, large, heavy equipment which put them into huge risk of death, especially because they are kids didn’t really don’t know exactly what they were doing. A lot of kids and teenagers died working during the industrial revolution. We will never know the exactly number of how many kids died because of unsanitary conditions, dangerous environments, poor factory requirements, and etcetera but just a little example to show the severity. On March 25th, 1911, a fire broke out on the eighth floor of the Asch Building in Manhattan. In the top three floors there were around 600 employees, mostly all teenage girls. It is unknown why the fire started but they think it was because of a carelessly thrown out cigarette butt. The workers were trapped inside of the factory because the doors was locked from the outside to force them to keep working, lack of fire exits,