Children miners

Children miners

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MINING LIFE Mining children use their hands and tools to collect the raw material and extract the metal . Could provoke permanent bones and muscles damages in a growing child .

Children miners

In addition , children can fall into holes, get stuck in tunnels .They can also die drowned .

His life si at stake

Work in coalmines was both hard and dangerous. Coal seams varied in thickness from eighteen inches in Durham to about seven feet in Yorkshire. Narrow seams meant the miners worked in very confined spaces. Where possible, pit ponies were used to carry the coal. However, in narrow seams, women and children had the job of carrying the coal while crawling on their hands and knees. "Children were chained, belted, harnessed like dogs in a go-cart, black, saturated with wet, and more than half-naked - crawling upon their hands and feet, and dragging their heavy loads behind them - they present an appearance indescribably disgusting and unnatural.

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