MSHA Mines + Accidents (mine safety + fatalities)

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

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 organization
U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration
License / terms
Coverage
91,776 mines, 272,784 accidents, 1,201 fatalities since 2000
Latest local indexed-row date
2026-05-16
API endpoint

Keywords

MSHAmine safetyfatalitymine accidentcoal miningmetal miningmine operatoroccupational safetycontrollerOSHA

Provenance

The listed URL identifies a referenced source; it does not by itself document the ingestion endpoint. Referenced source URL: https://arlweb.msha.gov/OpenGovernmentData/OGIMSHA.asp. Source-specific terms apply. US federal employee-authored works are generally public domain under 17 USC 105; non-federal and third-party material retains source terms. Free or keyless access does not alter source terms. Metadata and normalization authored by MORVS (AI Analytics LLC) are CC0 only where expressly stated.

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