Searchable research tool for US mining safety records.
Search every reportable MSHA mining incident — fatal and non-fatal, 1983 to present (~500,000 records). Filter by mine, operator, year, severity, or a keyword in the investigator's narrative. Refreshed weekly.
Every reportable mining incident MSHA has on file — fatal and non-fatal — searchable by mine, operator, year, severity, or a keyword in the investigator's narrative. Built for safety inspectors training crews, researchers chasing patterns, journalists chasing stories, and families trying to find a record. Updated weekly from MSHA's open datasets.
I took an MSHA training course taught by Kim Redding and walked out unsettled. Every incident was on the record, but the public couldn't really find it — the agency's own search makes the data hard to see. This is a small counterweight: the same public record, opened up. Credit for the spark belongs to Kim.
Concrete entry points on miningincidents.org — open any of these to land directly in the data the URL describes.
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