The most common occupations were: the pastor, the shoemaker, the baker, the miner, the fogliamari and even housewives whose role was to clean the house, cooking, baking bread, looking after the children.
Working in the mines was very difficult and risky because it lacked the resources to get to work, they used to reach the mine cart with the horses, and went to work as a miner down in the basement with the winch, after reaching the galleries that were divided by streets and areas mined sulfur and shoring up beam tunnels because they could collapse and misfortunes happen. Sometimes the firedamp burst that caused the victims and when it was impossible to extinguish the fire, to stifle it, it was forced to close the gallery with a wall even though there were people inside. Being a hot environment, workers were forced to work in bare chest and breathing indoor air that caused even dangerous respiratory diseases, sulfur extract was loaded on the trucks that carried him outside.
We worked day and night by turns and tunnels were ventilated with the pumps.
The closure of the mines has caused the economic crisis, because they work in hazardous places earned and spent, was a shock to Sicily because it was rich in deposits
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