Abstract: In order to reduce and prevent the occurrence of coal mine rescue accident, this paper mainly adopts the method of accident statistics and analysis to study the accidents in coal mine emergency rescue. Researching on 25 larger and more rescue accidents which occurred during the period of 2000-2015 shows that the main job types of accidents is gas explosion accident rescue and fire accident rescue, and the main cause of casualties is poisoning and explosion shock.In order to find out the specific reasons for the accident of coal mine rescue, using the "2-4" model to study the unsafe act reason in 12 detail described accidents. Results show that the first step to reduce unsafe actions is to control the illegal action; The first step is to reduce the illegal behavior is to reduce the high frequency unsafe actions like “Into the affected areas with inadequate equipment” in “illegal operation” part and “No strict treatment plan and safety technical measures” in “Illegally directin” part, and so on.