> The 1905 Grover Shoe Factory disaster led to regulations governing the safe operation of steam boilers That seems awfully late?! Germany already had the "Soc

> The 1905 Grover Shoe Factory disaster led to regulations governing the safe operation of steam boilers That seems awfully late?! Germany already had the "Society for the Supervision and Insurance of Steam Boilers" since 1866, and according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technischer_%C3%9Cberwachungsverein https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technischer_%C3%9Cberwachungsv..., "from 1871, membership in such an association exempted them from inspection by a state inspector" - so at that point, there was already a system of state inspection. And all this emulated a system that was already established in the UK, so the concept is even older. But maybe it's the American attitude to regulation that delayed similar regulations for so long in the US?