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.
The coal mining industry employed 4,722 people in Wyoming in 2022, and all of them worked in surface mines. Since 2011, the minority of the employees in the state worked in underground mines. During the period in consideration, coal-mining employment in the state oscillated with a trend of decline, peaking at just over seven thousand employees in 2011.
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