Mining incidents by state
Every US state ranked by recorded mining fatalities. Click a state for its full incident record, top operators, and recent fatalities.
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1,197 fatalities tracked across all states
- West Virginia 207fatal 41,687 total
- Kentucky 143fatal 28,737 total
- Texas 70fatal 11,887 total
- Pennsylvania 63fatal 20,412 total
- Alabama 53fatal 9,651 total
- Nevada 51fatal 9,042 total
- Virginia 39fatal 9,944 total
- Utah 34fatal 4,445 total
- Illinois 33fatal 12,705 total
- Arizona 29fatal 10,233 total
- Indiana 28fatal 8,511 total
- Missouri 28fatal 6,286 total
- California 27fatal 8,376 total
- Tennessee 27fatal 3,647 total
- Georgia 25fatal 3,865 total
- Ohio 23fatal 6,927 total
- Florida 22fatal 4,396 total
- Colorado 20fatal 5,997 total
- Wyoming 20fatal 7,246 total
- Montana 18fatal 4,169 total
- New Mexico 18fatal 3,899 total
- Minnesota 15fatal 4,281 total
- New York 15fatal 3,338 total
- Oklahoma 15fatal 3,111 total
- Arkansas 13fatal 2,223 total
- Idaho 13fatal 2,621 total
- Iowa 13fatal 2,313 total
- Louisiana 13fatal 1,973 total
- Michigan 12fatal 3,910 total
- North Carolina 12fatal 2,496 total
- Washington 12fatal 2,534 total
- Oregon 11fatal 1,335 total
- South Carolina 11fatal 1,622 total
- Alaska 8fatal 2,182 total
- Kansas 8fatal 1,779 total
- Wisconsin 8fatal 3,882 total
- Nebraska 7fatal 805 total
- Maryland 6fatal 2,196 total
- Massachusetts 5fatal 735 total
- Mississippi 5fatal 693 total
- New Hampshire 3fatal 514 total
- New Jersey 3fatal 1,311 total
- South Dakota 3fatal 1,250 total
- Vermont 3fatal 782 total
- North Dakota 2fatal 657 total
- Rhode Island 2fatal 97 total
- Hawaii 1fatal 429 total
- Connecticut 0fatal 503 total
- Delaware 0fatal 76 total
- Maine 0fatal 374 total