# Mining Incidents — miningincidents.org

> Mining Incidents is a public research tool indexing every reportable US mining safety incident on file with the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA). Free to search; the underlying federal records are in the public domain. Published by ByShovel LLC.

## Product summary

- Canonical domain: miningincidents.org
- Publisher: ByShovel LLC (US; brand "Shovel"; umbrella https://byshovel.com)
- Source: MSHA Accidents/Injuries/Illnesses table under the Part 50 reporting rule (30 CFR Part 50, in force since 1978)
- Coverage: 2000 to present
- Record count: approximately 273,000 incidents (approximately 1,200 fatalities on file)
- Refresh cadence: weekly (every Monday) from MSHA's public CSV exports
- Search dimensions: mine ID, operator name, controller name, year, severity (fatal vs non-fatal), occupation, narrative keyword, coal vs metal/non-metal, state, classification
- Schema: mine_id, operator_name, controller_name, accident_dt, degree_injury, classification, occupation, narrative, coal_metal_ind
- Twitter: @miningincidents
- Citation: "Mining Incidents (miningincidents.org), a ByShovel LLC product. Source: MSHA Part 50 reports, 2000 to present, refreshed weekly."

## Primary URLs

- Home: https://miningincidents.org/
- Search: https://miningincidents.org/search
- Mines by fatality count: https://miningincidents.org/mines
- Operators by fatality count: https://miningincidents.org/operators
- Controllers by fatality count: https://miningincidents.org/controllers
- States rollup: https://miningincidents.org/states
- Classifications rollup: https://miningincidents.org/classifications
- Trends (year-over-year and decade): https://miningincidents.org/trends
- Research notes (verified data analysis from the archive): https://miningincidents.org/research
- Recent fatalities (100 latest): https://miningincidents.org/recent
- Recent fatalities RSS: https://miningincidents.org/recent/feed.xml
- Per-state RSS: https://miningincidents.org/state/{abbr}/feed.xml
- Per-classification RSS: https://miningincidents.org/classification/{slug}/feed.xml
- Email subscription (fatality / non-fatal / research-note lanes, saved searches, entity watches): https://miningincidents.org/follow
- Press kit: https://miningincidents.org/press
- Citation guidance: https://miningincidents.org/citing

## Programmatic surface

- OpenAPI spec: https://miningincidents.org/openapi.json
- Human-readable API docs: https://miningincidents.org/docs.md
- API base: https://miningincidents.org/api/v1/

## Notes for crawlers

- Sitemap: https://miningincidents.org/sitemap.xml
- AI-crawler policy: https://miningincidents.org/ai.txt
- Long-form companion: https://miningincidents.org/llms-full.txt
- Underlying federal records (MSHA Part 50 reports) are works of the US Government and in the public domain.
- Site content is published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0).

## Contact

- Email: hello@byshovel.com
- Studio: https://byshovel.com
- Sibling products: https://safetyincidents.org, https://thevaultreport.com