Description:
The Accidents, Injuries and Illnesses data set provides detailed information about all accidents, injuries, and illnesses reported to the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) by mine operators and contractors.
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Date Range:
January 1, 2000, to present
What’s in the Data Set:
Each record represents a reported incident involving miners, and includes information such as:
- Date, time and location of the accident, injury or illness
- Type and cause of the accident
- Nature and severity of any injury or illness
- Equipment and activities involved
- Experience level of the affected miner
- Lost workdays, restricted activity, or fatality
- Mine ID, Operator Name, and Controller/Contractor IDs help identify where the incident took place and who was responsible
- Type of accident, classification (e.g., slip, equipment failure), and mining method used (e.g., longwall, continuous miner)
- Part of body affected, type of injury (e.g., fracture, burn), severity (e.g., fatality, lost workdays), and number of injuries
- Job title, total mining experience, mine-specific experience, and shift time
- Days lost or restricted, return-to-work date, and whether the miner was permanently transferred or terminated
- The IMMED_NOTIFY field indicates whether the accident must be reported to MSHA immediately, such as in cases of fatalities, fires, or entrapments
- A brief written summary of what happened
- Each incident is uniquely identified by a document number (DOCUMENT_NO) field
- COAL_METAL_IND is an indicator of whether the mine is coal or metal/non-metal
Notes:
- Some fields may contain missing or default values (e.g., “No Value Found” or “?”) when details were not available or not applicable
- The data set is collected from Mine Accident, Injury and Illness Reports (MSHA Form 7000-1)
- The data set can be linked to other data sets using this key field:
- Mine ID – to connect it with the Mines data
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Contact
For questions, please contact the MSHA Data Group.