Coal Mining
Coal mining was difficult for the people of great britian
coal miners worked in darkness or little light and coal dust was pushed up when workers moved
- No light or little in the passage ways
- Darkness made it harder for workers to see what they were doing or where they were going
- coal dust damaged miners lungs making it harder to work
Dangers of explosions, floods, and collapsing tunnels
- Explosions could not be predicted in mines
- Floods could wash people away and trap them or drown them
- Collapsing tunnels could trap workers in the mines or injury them
Women and children working in mines
- Pulled carts on all fours sometimes
- Had to lift baskets of coal up ladders
- Pushed carts in complete darkness for long hours
How the Coal Mining in Great Britain gets better
- Children don't have to work in mines anymore
- Less hours workers have to work
- steam engine pumps water out of mines so flooding problem is solved