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 41,676 total
- Kentucky 143fatal 28,734 total
- Texas 70fatal 11,886 total
- Pennsylvania 63fatal 20,404 total
- Alabama 53fatal 9,650 total
- Nevada 51fatal 9,035 total
- Virginia 39fatal 9,941 total
- Utah 34fatal 4,443 total
- Illinois 33fatal 12,700 total
- Arizona 29fatal 10,222 total
- Indiana 28fatal 8,507 total
- Missouri 28fatal 6,283 total
- California 27fatal 8,374 total
- Tennessee 27fatal 3,647 total
- Georgia 25fatal 3,864 total
- Ohio 23fatal 6,925 total
- Florida 22fatal 4,393 total
- Colorado 20fatal 5,995 total
- Wyoming 20fatal 7,239 total
- Montana 18fatal 4,169 total
- New Mexico 18fatal 3,899 total
- Minnesota 15fatal 4,280 total
- New York 15fatal 3,338 total
- Oklahoma 15fatal 3,110 total
- Arkansas 13fatal 2,219 total
- Idaho 13fatal 2,619 total
- Iowa 13fatal 2,313 total
- Louisiana 13fatal 1,972 total
- Michigan 12fatal 3,910 total
- North Carolina 12fatal 2,494 total
- Washington 12fatal 2,533 total
- Oregon 11fatal 1,335 total
- South Carolina 11fatal 1,620 total
- Alaska 8fatal 2,182 total
- Kansas 8fatal 1,776 total
- Wisconsin 8fatal 3,881 total
- Nebraska 7fatal 804 total
- Maryland 6fatal 2,195 total
- Massachusetts 5fatal 735 total
- Mississippi 5fatal 693 total
- New Hampshire 3fatal 514 total
- New Jersey 3fatal 1,310 total
- South Dakota 3fatal 1,249 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