Every mine under U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration jurisdiction since 1970 (91,776 mines) + every reported accident/injury/fatality since 2000 (272,784 accidents, 1,201 fatalities). Names the operator, controller (parent), mine name, location, commodity, and for accidents: degree of injury, classification, occupation, narrative. The fatality data is the public record of who died at which mine — paired with controller_name it shows which corporate parents kill workers. Source is pipe-delimited ZIPs at arlweb.msha.gov, weekly-refreshed. Hard to use because the columns aren't documented in the page itself and the ZIP files require browser-style headers to download.

Live API

This dataset is served via a live REST API at api.ai-analytics.org. The card you're reading exists so HuggingFace's index can route AI agents + researchers to the canonical source.

API endpoint: https://api.ai-analytics.org/api/v1/msha/mines/recent
Dataset landing page: https://api.ai-analytics.org/datasets/msha-mines
DataCatalog (JSON-LD): https://api.ai-analytics.org/.well-known/dataset.json
DCAT-US (data.gov-compatible): https://api.ai-analytics.org/data.json

Quick start

# Recent records (JSON)
curl 'https://api.ai-analytics.org/api/v1/msha/mines/recent?limit=10'

# Browse on the web
open 'https://api.ai-analytics.org/datasets/msha-mines'

MCP (Model Context Protocol)

This dataset is also accessible via MCP at https://api.ai-analytics.org/mcp — Claude, ChatGPT, and other MCP-compatible agents can call it directly.

Source

Agency: U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration
Primary source: https://arlweb.msha.gov/OpenGovernmentData/OGIMSHA.asp
License: CC0 1.0 Universal (derived data). Underlying federal works are US public domain under 5 USC 105 / 17 USC 105.
Update cadence: Per agency (most refresh daily via Cloudflare Cron Trigger)

Keywords

MSHA, mine safety, fatality, mine accident, coal mining, metal mining, mine operator, occupational safety, controller, OSHA

Citation

@misc{ai_analytics_msha_mines_2026,
  title  = {{name}},
  author = {AI Analytics},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://api.ai-analytics.org/datasets/msha-mines},
  note   = {Derived from U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration. License: CC0 1.0.}
}

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