Child Workers and Workplace Accidents What was the Price Paid for Industrializing America With an absence of rules and regulations employers widened the demands of workers Coal mining companies employed children as young as 5 years old and used them to slip through the small tunnels and cracks where men could not fit Children both male and female were sometimes strapped to coal sledges which they dragged while crawling on their hands and knees industrial revolution children workers in industrial revolution children workers early America accidents in workplace workplace accidents early America 1900 Read more httpwwwourgreatamericanheritagecom201803misery and workpdustrial america