My accident records cover most of the United States, New Zealand, provinces of Alberta, British Columbia, Nova Scotia, Ontario and Quebec in Canada, and provinces of New South Wales and Queensland in Australia. However, about 283,000 of the mine accident records are the state of Pennsylvania. The mining accident records are from the late 1800s through the early 1900s. I have knowledge of all major mine disasters in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. I can provide advice on finding U.S. mine fatalities from the late 1860s and later and in Victoria province Australia. A general listing of the accident records I have is below. However, for a detailed listing of the records and the type of information available, see
http://www.gengathering.com/State_search.php
or http://raogk.wikia.com/wiki/Random_Acts_of_Genealogical_Kindness_Wiki
Another way to contact me is to post a query on the web site
http://boards.ancestry.com/topics.occupations.mining.us/mb.ashx
or through the website raogk.wiki whose URL is above, but put the words "Mining Accident
(state or province)" in the subject. I continue to collect mining accident records.
However the easiest way to contact me is to simply click on CONTACT at the top of this page and fill in the form blanks.
An index to many of my mining accident records is available on the web sites:
http://library.mines.edu/LIB-Research-Mine-Accidents "Arthur Lakes Colorado School of Mines Library"
http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/rg/rg45.htm#r04514
“Database for Antharacite Mine Accidents, 1899-1918 & 1924-1972 and
“Bituminous Mine Accidents, 1899-1972” (Note that an alternate source to the 1869-1920 Pennsylvania mining accident records are not on this web site).
The Mine Safety & Health Administration (MSHA) has a fatality archive database of accident investigation files for the United States mining industry:
http://www.msha.gov/TRAINING/LIBRARY/FatalRecordsSearch.asp
Most of the fatalities are after the year 1970. When the web site comes up, click search on two occasions. If entering only a date, type it as mm/dd/yyyy, and fill in as few boxes as possible. Try both the "Search" and "Browse" buttons. By clicking on any blue items from the search results, you can get things to come up.
I regularly check the 17 state mine board postings on
http://boards.ancestry.com/topics.occupations.mining.us/mb.ashx
"Ancestry Mining Boards and Mining Categories - U.S.” . By searching, one may find a helpful
historical query. Any posting more than two years old probably has a bad email
address link.
In your query, please include the words Mining Accident in the subject,
name of miner, approximate birth date and date of accident, state and county if
known. Additional information such as mine, nationality, single or married, and number of surviving children under 16 years of age is also helpful.
MY FAVORITE WEB SITES:
http://www.coalmininghistorypa.org/historicalpictures/pic038.htm
“Pennsylvania Coal Mining Pictures” Click Next to advance.
https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A0LEVw1uADhT_BQAKzxXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTBsa3ZzMnBvBHNlYwNzYwRjb2xvA2JmMQR2dGlkAw--?_adv_prop=image&fr=uh3_groups_web_gs&va=COAL+MINING+pennsylvania+BREAKER “Pennsylvania Coal Mining Breaker Pictures” Click on any one of the photos to get started and then click on the arrow to advance.
http://archive.org/search.php?query=scranton%20mines “Pennsylvania Department of Mines
Inspector Reports” Many of the report years are given in the title. However these report years are not specified in the title: 1902 (download 793), 1898 (905), 1899 (844), 1897 (1295), 1901 (692), 1900 (1306), 1916 (1020), 1909 Anthracite (682), 1904 (979), 1910 (946), 1915 (1623), 1912 (1035), 1909 Bituminous (1040), 1914 (552), 1907 (1031), 1905 (800), 1917 (1131), 1907 (928), 1915 (1245), 1919-1920 (2053), 1918 (929), 1906 (1560), 1903 (1815), 1895 (1224), 1894 (1275), 1896 (1306), 1913 (1009), 1911 (558), 1908 (download 992)
or
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/researchguides/geoearthsci/minesmining.html “Penn State University Fletcher L. Byrom Earth & Mineral Sciences Library, go down to Annual Report of Mining Activities,
1870-1979”
http://www.coalregion.com/towns/townsa.php “Pennsylvania Coal towns, Villages & Patches in the Coal Region”
http://kycoal.homestead.com/coalpatchtowns.html “Kentucky Coal Patch Towns”
http://www.northernfield.info/
“Pennsylvania’s Northern Anthracite Coal Field 1870-1970” (maps, photos & reports)
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL502EFC2179D1AB53
“Coal Mining Songs”.
UNITED STATES MINING ACCIDENTS:
ALABAMA, 1900-1938, fatal
ALASKA, 1911-1936, fatal & nonfatal
ARIZONA, 1912-1929, nonfatal & fatal
CALIFORNIA, 1866-1911, nonfatal & fatal
COLORADO, 1883-1902 nonfatal; 1884-1982, fatal
IDAHO, 1913-1940, fatal
ILLINOIS, 1885-1925, nonfatal; 1885-1948, fatal
http://hinton-gen.com/ilcoalmines.html “Illinois Coal & Coal Mining History & Genealogy”
INDIANA, 1891-1915, nonfatal & fatal
IOWA, 1886-1921, fatal & nonfatal
KANSAS, 1884-1933, nonfatal; 1884-1956, fatal
KENTUCKY, 1887-1926, nonfatal & fatal, also see
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kyborn/coalminermemindex.html “Harlan County
Coal Miner’s Memorial with death certificates”
MARYLAND, 1877-1950, nonfatal & fatal
MICHIGAN, Dickinson county 1877-1926 fatal & nonfatal, Gogebic county fatal 1885-1963, Houghton county 1889-1907 fatal & nonfatal, & Iron county 1883-1893 fatal & nonfatal
MINNESOTA, St.Louis county, 1911-1924, nonfatal & fatal
MISSOURI, 1868-1926, nonfatal& fatal;
for St.Francois county, 1871-1971, see http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mostfran/miners/miners_index.htm
“St.Francois Co., Missouri Lead Mines Death”
MONTANA, 1895-1912, nonfatal & fatal
NEW MEXICO, 1894-1967, nonfatal & fatal
NEVADA, 1909-1944, nonfatal & fatal
NORTH DAKOTA, 1919-1968, nonfatal & fatal
OHIO, 1874-1914, nonfatal & fatal
OKLAHOMA, 1885-1962, fatal
PENNSYLVANIA, 1869-1940, anthracite & bituminous, nonfatal; 1869-1972, fatal
http://patheoldminer.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index.html
“Virtual Museum of Coal Mining in Western Pennsylvania” is a bituminous coal miners database
for western Pennsylvania counties with over 200,000 names of mines and miners that can be searched.
“Pennsylvania Bituminous Coal Mining Stories” http://explorepahistory.com/story.php?storyId=1-9-18&chapter=1
SOUTH DAKOTA, 1897-1934, nonfatal; 1877-1991, fatal
TENNESSEE, 1891-1895, 1898-1914 & 1919-1930 nonfatal & fatal
UTAH, 1896-1916, nonfatal & fatal
WASHINGTON, 1905-1919, nonfatal & 1892-1960, fatal
VIRGINIA, 1854-1967, fatal
WEST VIRGINIA, 1887-1927, nonfatal & fatal; Raleigh county fatal 1891-2000
WISCONSIN, Iron county, 1886-1964, fatal; Florence county, 1881 - 1913, fatal & nonfatal
WYOMING, 1897-1898 & 1908-1973, nonfatal & fatal
CANADA MINING ACCIDENTS:
ALBERTA, 1915-1926, nonfatal; 1904-1964, fatal
BRITISH COLUMBIA, 1978-1925, nonfatal; 1878-1972 fatal
NOVA SCOTIA, 1871-1916, nonfatal & fatal;
for 1838-1992, fatal, see
http://novascotia.ca/archives/virtual/meninmines/fatalities.asp?Language=English
ONTARIO, 1893-1914, nonfatal; 1892-1967, fatal
QUEBEC, 1909-1926, nonfatal & fatal; 1927-1936 & 1954-1964 fatal (includes quarry accidents)
AUSTRALIA MINING ACCIDENTS:
NEW SOUTH WALES, 1872-1939, nonfatal & fatal
QUEENSLAND, 1885-1919 & 1939-1941, nonfatal & fatal
VICTORIA, 1850s – 1940s, nonfatal & fatal, see http://www.ballaratgenealogy.org.au/resources/victorian-mining-accident-index
NEW ZEALAND MINING ACCIDENTS, 1886-1929, nonfatal; 1879-1958, fatal
GREAT BRITAIN MINING ACCIDENTS, see
http://www.cmhrc.co.uk/site/home/index.html “Great Britain Coal Mining Accidents & Deaths – 1700 -2000”
WALES MINING ACCIDENTS, see
http://www.welshcoalmines.co.uk/DisastersList.htm “Welsh Mining Disasters & Fatalities – primarily 1800s”
SCOTLAND MINING ACCIDENTS, see http://www.scottishmining.co.uk/5.html “Fatal 1817 - 1973 & Nonfatal 1800s to Early 1930s, Mining Accident Indexes – Scottish Mining Website”
http://www.gengathering.com/State_search.php
or http://raogk.wikia.com/wiki/Random_Acts_of_Genealogical_Kindness_Wiki
Another way to contact me is to post a query on the web site
http://boards.ancestry.com/topics.occupations.mining.us/mb.ashx
or through the website raogk.wiki whose URL is above, but put the words "Mining Accident
(state or province)" in the subject. I continue to collect mining accident records.
However the easiest way to contact me is to simply click on CONTACT at the top of this page and fill in the form blanks.
An index to many of my mining accident records is available on the web sites:
http://library.mines.edu/LIB-Research-Mine-Accidents "Arthur Lakes Colorado School of Mines Library"
http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/rg/rg45.htm#r04514
“Database for Antharacite Mine Accidents, 1899-1918 & 1924-1972 and
“Bituminous Mine Accidents, 1899-1972” (Note that an alternate source to the 1869-1920 Pennsylvania mining accident records are not on this web site).
The Mine Safety & Health Administration (MSHA) has a fatality archive database of accident investigation files for the United States mining industry:
http://www.msha.gov/TRAINING/LIBRARY/FatalRecordsSearch.asp
Most of the fatalities are after the year 1970. When the web site comes up, click search on two occasions. If entering only a date, type it as mm/dd/yyyy, and fill in as few boxes as possible. Try both the "Search" and "Browse" buttons. By clicking on any blue items from the search results, you can get things to come up.
I regularly check the 17 state mine board postings on
http://boards.ancestry.com/topics.occupations.mining.us/mb.ashx
"Ancestry Mining Boards and Mining Categories - U.S.” . By searching, one may find a helpful
historical query. Any posting more than two years old probably has a bad email
address link.
In your query, please include the words Mining Accident in the subject,
name of miner, approximate birth date and date of accident, state and county if
known. Additional information such as mine, nationality, single or married, and number of surviving children under 16 years of age is also helpful.
MY FAVORITE WEB SITES:
http://www.coalmininghistorypa.org/historicalpictures/pic038.htm
“Pennsylvania Coal Mining Pictures” Click Next to advance.
https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A0LEVw1uADhT_BQAKzxXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTBsa3ZzMnBvBHNlYwNzYwRjb2xvA2JmMQR2dGlkAw--?_adv_prop=image&fr=uh3_groups_web_gs&va=COAL+MINING+pennsylvania+BREAKER “Pennsylvania Coal Mining Breaker Pictures” Click on any one of the photos to get started and then click on the arrow to advance.
http://archive.org/search.php?query=scranton%20mines “Pennsylvania Department of Mines
Inspector Reports” Many of the report years are given in the title. However these report years are not specified in the title: 1902 (download 793), 1898 (905), 1899 (844), 1897 (1295), 1901 (692), 1900 (1306), 1916 (1020), 1909 Anthracite (682), 1904 (979), 1910 (946), 1915 (1623), 1912 (1035), 1909 Bituminous (1040), 1914 (552), 1907 (1031), 1905 (800), 1917 (1131), 1907 (928), 1915 (1245), 1919-1920 (2053), 1918 (929), 1906 (1560), 1903 (1815), 1895 (1224), 1894 (1275), 1896 (1306), 1913 (1009), 1911 (558), 1908 (download 992)
or
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/researchguides/geoearthsci/minesmining.html “Penn State University Fletcher L. Byrom Earth & Mineral Sciences Library, go down to Annual Report of Mining Activities,
1870-1979”
http://www.coalregion.com/towns/townsa.php “Pennsylvania Coal towns, Villages & Patches in the Coal Region”
http://kycoal.homestead.com/coalpatchtowns.html “Kentucky Coal Patch Towns”
http://www.northernfield.info/
“Pennsylvania’s Northern Anthracite Coal Field 1870-1970” (maps, photos & reports)
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL502EFC2179D1AB53
“Coal Mining Songs”.
UNITED STATES MINING ACCIDENTS:
ALABAMA, 1900-1938, fatal
ALASKA, 1911-1936, fatal & nonfatal
ARIZONA, 1912-1929, nonfatal & fatal
CALIFORNIA, 1866-1911, nonfatal & fatal
COLORADO, 1883-1902 nonfatal; 1884-1982, fatal
IDAHO, 1913-1940, fatal
ILLINOIS, 1885-1925, nonfatal; 1885-1948, fatal
http://hinton-gen.com/ilcoalmines.html “Illinois Coal & Coal Mining History & Genealogy”
INDIANA, 1891-1915, nonfatal & fatal
IOWA, 1886-1921, fatal & nonfatal
KANSAS, 1884-1933, nonfatal; 1884-1956, fatal
KENTUCKY, 1887-1926, nonfatal & fatal, also see
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kyborn/coalminermemindex.html “Harlan County
Coal Miner’s Memorial with death certificates”
MARYLAND, 1877-1950, nonfatal & fatal
MICHIGAN, Dickinson county 1877-1926 fatal & nonfatal, Gogebic county fatal 1885-1963, Houghton county 1889-1907 fatal & nonfatal, & Iron county 1883-1893 fatal & nonfatal
MINNESOTA, St.Louis county, 1911-1924, nonfatal & fatal
MISSOURI, 1868-1926, nonfatal& fatal;
for St.Francois county, 1871-1971, see http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mostfran/miners/miners_index.htm
“St.Francois Co., Missouri Lead Mines Death”
MONTANA, 1895-1912, nonfatal & fatal
NEW MEXICO, 1894-1967, nonfatal & fatal
NEVADA, 1909-1944, nonfatal & fatal
NORTH DAKOTA, 1919-1968, nonfatal & fatal
OHIO, 1874-1914, nonfatal & fatal
OKLAHOMA, 1885-1962, fatal
PENNSYLVANIA, 1869-1940, anthracite & bituminous, nonfatal; 1869-1972, fatal
http://patheoldminer.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index.html
“Virtual Museum of Coal Mining in Western Pennsylvania” is a bituminous coal miners database
for western Pennsylvania counties with over 200,000 names of mines and miners that can be searched.
“Pennsylvania Bituminous Coal Mining Stories” http://explorepahistory.com/story.php?storyId=1-9-18&chapter=1
SOUTH DAKOTA, 1897-1934, nonfatal; 1877-1991, fatal
TENNESSEE, 1891-1895, 1898-1914 & 1919-1930 nonfatal & fatal
UTAH, 1896-1916, nonfatal & fatal
WASHINGTON, 1905-1919, nonfatal & 1892-1960, fatal
VIRGINIA, 1854-1967, fatal
WEST VIRGINIA, 1887-1927, nonfatal & fatal; Raleigh county fatal 1891-2000
WISCONSIN, Iron county, 1886-1964, fatal; Florence county, 1881 - 1913, fatal & nonfatal
WYOMING, 1897-1898 & 1908-1973, nonfatal & fatal
CANADA MINING ACCIDENTS:
ALBERTA, 1915-1926, nonfatal; 1904-1964, fatal
BRITISH COLUMBIA, 1978-1925, nonfatal; 1878-1972 fatal
NOVA SCOTIA, 1871-1916, nonfatal & fatal;
for 1838-1992, fatal, see
http://novascotia.ca/archives/virtual/meninmines/fatalities.asp?Language=English
ONTARIO, 1893-1914, nonfatal; 1892-1967, fatal
QUEBEC, 1909-1926, nonfatal & fatal; 1927-1936 & 1954-1964 fatal (includes quarry accidents)
AUSTRALIA MINING ACCIDENTS:
NEW SOUTH WALES, 1872-1939, nonfatal & fatal
QUEENSLAND, 1885-1919 & 1939-1941, nonfatal & fatal
VICTORIA, 1850s – 1940s, nonfatal & fatal, see http://www.ballaratgenealogy.org.au/resources/victorian-mining-accident-index
NEW ZEALAND MINING ACCIDENTS, 1886-1929, nonfatal; 1879-1958, fatal
GREAT BRITAIN MINING ACCIDENTS, see
http://www.cmhrc.co.uk/site/home/index.html “Great Britain Coal Mining Accidents & Deaths – 1700 -2000”
WALES MINING ACCIDENTS, see
http://www.welshcoalmines.co.uk/DisastersList.htm “Welsh Mining Disasters & Fatalities – primarily 1800s”
SCOTLAND MINING ACCIDENTS, see http://www.scottishmining.co.uk/5.html “Fatal 1817 - 1973 & Nonfatal 1800s to Early 1930s, Mining Accident Indexes – Scottish Mining Website”
