
Coal-mining employment in Alabama 2012-2023
The coal mining industry employed 2,259 people in Alabama in 2023. Since 2012, the majority of the employees in the state works in underground mines, with 1,914 people in 2023. 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.