Products · Shovel

Autonomous products,
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Every product in the portfolio is fully autonomous — data pipelines, content engines, and APIs running without human intervention.

01 · Live products

Mining Incidents

live

Searchable research tool for US mining safety records.

~500k records · 1983–present · refreshed weekly
What it does
What it does

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.

Why we built it

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.

How it works
  1. Pull the latest MSHA Accidents/Injuries/Illnesses snapshot from msha.gov each Monday.
  2. Normalize the schema and join against the Mine and Operator reference tables so every row carries operator name, mine name, and state.
  3. Run the investigator's-narrative field through an LLM classifier for incident category and severity.
  4. Index the result into Postgres with full-text search on the narrative field.
  5. Publish to miningincidents.org; preserve the original MSHA report ID end-to-end so every record traces back to the source row.

The Vault Report

live

Precious metals intelligence.

COMEX + LME ticks · warehouse flows · refreshed daily
What it does
What it does

COMEX and LME pricing and warehouse flows — synthesized daily into briefings, charts, and a fully automated video pipeline.

Why we built it

Gold coverage is either Bloomberg terminals (expensive, institutional) or YouTube stackers (vibes). There's a gap between those two for someone who just wants the feed: prices, flows, what the internet is saying, every morning. That's the Vault Report.

How it works
  1. Poll COMEX (CME Group) and LME tick feeds at 1-second cadence for gold, silver, platinum, and palladium.
  2. Join price action against COT positioning and on-chain warehouse flows into a single daily briefing each morning UTC.
  3. Render the briefing into a chart pack and feed the chart pack into the automated video pipeline.
  4. Publish to thevaultreport.com and push the briefing to subscribers.
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Safety Incidents

live

Searchable research tool for US workplace-safety records.

~5.2M OSHA inspections · 105k severe-injury reports · refreshed daily
What it does
What it does

Every OSHA workplace-safety record on the federal file — severe-injury reports, inspections, citations, and accident investigations — searchable by employer, state, hazard, or industry. Built for safety managers checking a contractor, workers checking an employer, journalists chasing a pattern, and researchers who need the raw record. Refreshed continuously from the US Department of Labor's OSHA datasets.

Why we built it

MSHA covers mines; OSHA covers everyone else — every warehouse, plant, and job site in the country. Those severe-injury and inspection records are all public, but OSHA's own tools are built for compliance officers, not the public. Safety Incidents is the same federal record, opened up: type an employer, see their history.

How it works
  1. Pull OSHA's Severe Injury Reports, inspections, citations, and accident-investigation datasets from the US Department of Labor's DOL API on a rolling refresh schedule.
  2. Normalize each dataset into a common schema and resolve raw employer names into canonical establishment pages.
  3. Index everything into full-text search over employer, state, hazard, industry, and the incident narrative.
  4. Publish to safetyincidents.org; preserve each record's OSHA identifiers so every row traces back to the federal source.
02 · Underlying datasets

The real moat is the data. Each product sits on a live dataset that Shovel collects, normalizes, and keeps fresh.

MSHA Accidents & Fatalities

Refreshed weekly

Every injury and fatality reported to the Mine Safety and Health Administration — normalized, searchable, kept fresh.

Coverage · 1983 — present

Precious Metals Tick Feed

1-second polling

COMEX and LME feeds for gold, silver, platinum, and palladium — second-by-second.

Coverage · Live