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Fewer Mining Accidents Recorded in 2011

By: Chris Veech
Updated: October 15, 2012

Mining fatality and injury rates fall to a historic low. The U.S. Department of Labor's mine safety say 37 miners died in work-related accidents at the nation's mines in 2011. 21 in coal mining and 16 in metal/nonmetal mines. In 2010, 71 miners were killed. 2011 had the second-lowest number of mining deaths since statistics were first recorded in 1910.

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