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NIOSH Mining Safety and Health Research |
Historical Mine Disasters |
(Incidents with 5 or
more fatalities)
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images, or click on the hyperlinks to view dynamic tables.
Data used to create these graphs and tables came from the following
publications:
- Bureau of Mines Bulletin 509, Injury Experience in Coal Mining, 1948
- Bureau of Mines Bulletin 616, Historical Documentation of Major Coal-Mine
Disasters in the United States Not Classified as Explosions of Gas or Dust:
1846-1962
- Bureau of Mines Bulletin 586; Historical Summary of Coal-Mine Explosions in
the United States, 1810-1958
- Bureau of Mines IC 7493, Major Disasters at Metal and Nonmetal Mines and
Quarries in the United States (Excluding Coal Mines)
- Historical Summary of Mine Disasters in the United States, Volume I, Coal
Mines, 1810-1958
- Historical Summary of Mine Disasters in the United States, Volume II, Coal
Mines, 1959-1998
- Historical Summary of Mine Disasters in the United States, Volume III, Metal
and Nonmetal Mines, 1885-1998
- 1998-present, MSHA Fatalgrams and Fatality Reports
- Newspaper article citations when available
- Archives at the National Mine Health and Safety Academy Library, Beckley,
West Virginia
Historical accident reports are available in the library archives at the
National Mine Health and Safety Academy in Beckley, West Virginia. Please
contact the MSHA Academy at 304-256-3266 or
MSHAlibrary@dol.gov to check on the availability of a particular report.
Visit MSHA's Home Page on the Internet at
http://www.msha.gov for recent mine accident reports.
For more information, contact Linda J. McWilliams,
Pittsburgh Research Laboratory, 412-386-6116,
LMcWilliams@cdc.gov, or Patrick J. Coleman, PhD,
Spokane Research Laboratory, 509-354-8065,
PColeman@cdc.gov.
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