Conditions_Of_Coal_Mines

Conditions Of Coal Mines People have been mining since the eighteenth century, and compared to that time period, the treatment of coal miners has only recently improved. Miners have lived with dangers the rest of us cannot even imagine: slag falls, explosions, fires, gases and cave-ins occur, and there is always the possibility of being crippled for life either from broken bones or the black-lung disease that coal miners still acquire from breathing in coal dust. These conditions were not just in America, but coal was being mined in Europe before they began here in the states. In the novel Storming Heaven by Denise Giardina, coal miners were treated horribly and forced to work in unsafe conditions everyday. In Europe in 1841, the British Parliament conducted an investigation on the conditions of the coalmines. The conditions were especially horrid in Scotland. The investigative committee found conditions such as water constantly dripping from the ceilings, and workers having to stand ankle deep in water in shafts and other places. Some of the coal seams, the areas in which the miners had to work, were only 20 to 28 inches which miners, coal, conditions, mines, air, shaft, mine, men, main, workers, work, union, just, company, working, same, places, out, novel, frazier, even, europe, coalmines, being, women, while, water, treated, strike, storming, states, over, mining, heaven, go