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What event had an enormous effect on US workplace safety?

a new minimum wage
the first labor union
a worker strike
a deadly factory fire

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a deadly factory fire

The 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City, which killed 146 workers, exposed dangerous working conditions and directly prompted major workplace-safety reforms (fire codes, locked-door bans, inspections, building egress rules and labor regulations).