Mining Disasters Incidents and Fatalities, 1900 through 2011
	Mining Disasters Incidents and Fatalities, 1990 through 2011
	Coal Mining Disasters Incidents and Fatalities, 1900 through 2011
	Coal Mining Disasters Incidents and Fatalities, 1990 through 2011
	Metal/Nonmetal Mining Disasters Incidents and Fatalities, 1900 through 2011

Data used to create these graphs and tables came from the following publications:

• Bureau of Mines Bulletin 509, Injury Experience in Coal Mining, 1948
• Bureau of Mines Bulletin 616, Historical Documentation of Major Coal-Mine Disasters in the United States Not Classified as Explosions of Gas or Dust: 1846-1962
• Bureau of Mines Bulletin 586; Historical Summary of Coal-Mine Explosions in the United States, 1810-1958
• Bureau of Mines I.C. 7493, Major Disasters at Metal and Nonmetal Mines and Quarries in the United States (Excluding Coal Mines)
• Historical Summary of Mine Disasters in the United States, Volume I, Coal Mines, 1810-1958 (MSHA)
• Historical Summary of Mine Disasters in the United States, Volume II, Coal Mines, 1959-1998 (MSHA)
• Historical Summary of Mine Disasters in the United States, Volume III, Metal and Nonmetal Mines, 1885-1998 (MSHA)
• Mine Disasters, OT 32, 2000 (MSHA)
• 1998-present, MSHA Fatalgrams and Fatality Reports
• Newspaper article citations from the archives at the National Mine Health and Safety Academy Library, Beckley, West Virginia (Historical Mining Disasters by Jane DeMarchi)
• Historical Data on Mine Disasters in the United States (http://www.msha.gov/MSHAINFO/FactSheets/MSHAFCT8.HTM)

Historical accident reports are available in the library archives at the National Mine Health and Safety Academy in Beckley, West Virginia. Please contact the MSHA Academy at 304-256-3266 or MSHAlibrary@dol.gov to check on the availability of a particular report.  Visit MSHA's Home Page on the Internet at http://www.msha.gov for recent mine accident reports.