The coal mining industry employed 42,117 people in the United States in 2020, of which 60 percent worked in underground mines. Since 2010, the minority of the employees in the country worked in surface mines. During the period in consideration, coal-mining employment in the U.S. presented a trend of decline, with figures peaking in 2012, at some 89.8 thousand employees.
Annual coal-mining employment in the U.S. from 2010 to 2020, by mine type
Includes all employees engaged in production, preparation, processing, development, maintenance, repair shop, or yard work at mining operations, as well as office workers. Excludes preparation plants with less than 5,000 employee hours per year, which are not required to provide data. This statistic was assembled using several editions of the report.
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EIA. (October 5, 2021). Annual coal-mining employment in the U.S. from 2010 to 2020, by mine type [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved June 28, 2022, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/215790/coal-mining-employment-in-the-us/?utm_campaign=Recode%201.19.22&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_term=Recode
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