Mine Safety and Health At-a-Glance
2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 Number of Mines 13,079 12,998 12,751 12,604 12,541
Number of Miners 332,324 332,064 297,565 301,708 313,828
Fatalities 28 27 29 37 29
Fatal Injury Rate 0.0098 0.0095 0.0117 0.0146 0.0107
All Injury Rate 2.06 2.05 1.85 1.92 1.85
Total Mining Area Inspections Hours / Mine 52 50 43 42 43
Citations and Orders Issued 97,489 99,281 77,831 77,798 88,331
S & S Citations and Orders (%) 20 % 19 % 18 % 19 % 20 %
Dollar Amount Assessed ( Millions ) 55.0 53.2 40.5 43.1 55.9
Coal Production ( Millions of Tons ) 756 706 535 578 595
* Values are all inclusive of operator and contractor employees .
The information provided by the Mine Data Retrieval System ( MDRS ) is based on data gathered from various MSHA systems . As there may be a lag time in data being entered into those systems , there will also be a lag in the reflection of that data on the MDRS . Fatality data appears 30 days after incident on MDRS .
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