About this site
Fallen Miners is a public memorial and search tool built on the United States Mine Safety and Health Administration’s open datasets. Every fatality MSHA has on record is here, going back decades — searchable by name, operator, state, year, or keyword in the incident narrative.
MSHA publishes this data already, but their own search surface is difficult to use — pagination heavy, multi-form, not built for the people who actually need it: families trying to find their loved one’s record, journalists looking for patterns, safety inspectors training new crews.
We do not add information MSHA has not published. We do not editorialize. The narratives are written by MSHA investigators, verbatim. Our job is only to make the record easier to find and harder to forget.
Data sources
Primary: MSHA Open Government Data (Accidents and Mines datasets). Refreshed weekly.
Corrections
If a record is wrong, the correction needs to happen at MSHA, not here — we publish whatever MSHA publishes. But if a page is missing or broken, or a family member wants a record unlinked from search engines for privacy reasons, email fallen@byshovel.com.
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