
Coal-mining employment in Alabama 2011-2021
The coal mining industry employed 1,731 people in Alabama in 2021. Since 2011, the majority of the employees in the state works in underground mines, with 1,385 people in 2021. During the period in consideration, coal-mining employment in Alabama declined, and figures peaked in 2012, when over five thousand people worked in the coal mining industry in the state.