International Journal of Engineering and Technology

Director General of Mines Safety under Ministry of Labour, Government of India, published several annual reports, which included safety statistics of Indian mines. A collective / integrated record is created from these reports in the form of mining accident database for detailed analysis. Yearly data on underground coal mining accidents was combined to obtain a unified database, which was utilised in the application of forecasting models based on time series modelling. Fuzzy time series forecasting model was applied in the present study. The predictions and forecasts are presented here with discussions on the results