MSHA Mines + Accidents (mine safety + fatalities)

Dataset · U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration · primary source ↗

Every mine under U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration jurisdiction since 1970 (91,776 mines) + every reported accident/injury/fatality since 2000 (272,784 accidents, 1,201 fatalities). Names the operator, controller (parent), mine name, location, commodity, and for accidents: degree of injury, classification, occupation, narrative. The fatality data is the public record of who died at which mine — paired with controller_name it shows which corporate parents kill workers. Source is pipe-delimited ZIPs at arlweb.msha.gov, weekly-refreshed. Hard to use because the columns aren't documented in the page itself and the ZIP files require browser-style headers to download.

Source agency
U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration
License
CC0 / US public domain
Coverage
91,776 mines, 272,784 accidents, 1,201 fatalities since 2000
API endpoint

Keywords

MSHAmine safetyfatalitymine accidentcoal miningmetal miningmine operatoroccupational safetycontrollerOSHA

Provenance

Every record in this dataset can be traced back to its primary source at https://arlweb.msha.gov/OpenGovernmentData/OGIMSHA.asp. 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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