How to cite Mining Incidents
Mining Incidents is a frontend over public US Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) accident records. Cite the underlying MSHA data when possible; cite this site when you want to point readers at the canonical URL for a specific record, mine, operator, or controller.
Citing the dataset as a whole
Mining Incidents. (2026). Mining Incidents: A searchable record of US Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) accident records [Dataset frontend]. byshovel. https://miningincidents.org
"Mining Incidents: A Searchable Record of US Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) Accident Records." byshovel, 2026, https://miningincidents.org. Accessed 2026-05-01.
byshovel. 2026. "Mining Incidents: A Searchable Record of US Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) Accident Records." Accessed 2026-05-01. https://miningincidents.org.
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title = {Mining Incidents: A Searchable Record of US Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) Accident Records},
author = {{byshovel}},
year = {2026},
url = {https://miningincidents.org},
note = {Accessed 2026-05-01}
}Citing a specific incident
Each incident has a stable canonical URL of the form miningincidents.org/incident/[id]. The MSHA document number for the same record appears in the page header. When citing in a publication, include both the MSHA document number and the canonical URL.
US Mine Safety and Health Administration. (n.d.). Accident report 0123456. Mining Incidents. https://miningincidents.org/incident/185184
Citing a mine, operator, or controller
The canonical accountability URLs are /mine/[mine_id], /operator/[operator_id], and /controller/[controller_id]. Each id matches its MSHA-assigned identifier, so a citation stays valid across renames or acquisitions on the corporate side.
Source & license
The underlying data is collected and published by the US Mine Safety and Health Administration as a federal agency record; it is in the public domain (17 U.S.C. § 105). Mining Incidents adds the searchable presentation, derived views, and email-alert pipeline; the site itself is operated by byshovel. MSHA is not affiliated with this site.
Bulk MSHA accident files are at arlweb.msha.gov.