Mining is highly robotized. Here's a How It's Made video about mining uranium in Canada: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9x7DozCqLxU https://www.youtube.com/w

Mining is highly robotized. Here's a How It's Made video about mining uranium in Canada: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9x7DozCqLxU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9x7DozCqLxU Other types of mines are less robotized, since they only have to worry about inhalation hazards, and not radioactivity. However, in most other types of mines, machines still do most of the drilling, lifting, detonation of explosives, and so on. The biggest hazard in a modern mine is probably the accumulation of dust in enclosed spaces. I'd guess injuries during machine maintenance and repair come second, and cave-ins are a distant third. (I'm speculating though; I don't have data to back that up.)