About:
The data was tabled at a time when multiple agencies are involved in the rescue of 15 miners trapped in a rathole mine in Meghalaya.
Summary data:
- Of the 377 deaths, 129 occurred in 2017 alone. As many as 145 died in 2016, while the figure was 103 in 2015.
- Coal mine deaths:
- Coal mines have accounted for the highest number of casualties due to accidents in mines. Of the 377, more than half, 210, were killed in coal mines.
- Jharkhand, which recorded 69 deaths in the three years, has accounted for the highest death of coal mine workers in accidents inside mines.
- Goda in Jharkhand witnessed one of the biggest open cast mine accidents in 2016 when 23 workers died in December that year.
- Metal mines death:
- During the period, 152 persons died in accidents in metal mines across the country.
- Rajasthan, one of highest mineral producing States in the country, accounted for 48 deaths while Andhra Pradesh recorded 29 deaths.
- Oil mines death:
- During this period, 15 deaths were reported in oil mines, most of them occurring in Assam and Gujarat.
