Mining Accidents

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What is the safest underground mine in Alabama. Really. it depends on the measure of safety. Below is a chart of hazard functions of reported mining accidents to MSHA by the underground coal mines in Alabama. The data goes back 5 years. The safest mine is the one that just had a fatality which is the Blue Creek Mine. The most dangerous mine is the Oak Grove mine.

The y-axis contains the probability of a mining accident given that one hasn't happened up to that point. The hazards functions are nonparametric and do not make any assumptions about the distribution of the data. The most dangerous mine is the Oak Grove Mine, the safest is the Blue Creek Mine although they just had a fatality when a shield fell on a man. The mine I work in is mine 7.