MSHA Mine Accidents and Injuries (every reported mining incident)

Dataset · Mine Safety and Health Administration · primary source ↗

Every accident, injury, and illness reported to the Mine Safety and Health Administration — 272,784 records. Per incident: mine ID, operator, accident date, degree of injury, body part, occupation, experience, the activity and equipment involved, and a narrative. The injury-and-fatality record behind US mine safety enforcement, joinable to MSHA mines and violations by mine ID.

Source agency
Mine Safety and Health Administration
License
CC0 / US public domain
Coverage
272,784 mine accidents/injuries
API endpoint

Keywords

MSHAmine accidentmining injurymine fatalitymine safetycoal mine accident

Provenance

Every record in this dataset can be traced back to its primary source at https://www.msha.gov/data-and-reports/mine-data-retrieval-system. Underlying content is a US federal government work (public domain under 17 USC §105); our derived data is licensed CC0 1.0.

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