The coal mining industry employed 2,098 people in Alabama in 2022. Since 2012, the majority of the employees in the state works in underground mines, with 1,678 people in 2022. 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.
Coal-mining employment in Alabama from 2012 to 2022, by mine type
Includes all employees engaged in production, preparation, processing, development, maintenance, repair shop, or yard work at mining operations,
including 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 3, 2023). Coal-mining employment in Alabama from 2012 to 2022, by mine type [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved November 05, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/215750/coal-mining-employment-in-alabama/
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