Abstract: In order to clarify the research status and development trend of coal mine safety caused by human error, based on statistical analysis and bibliometrics, with the help of Citespace software, this paper analyzed 1490 Chinese literatures on coal mine workers from 2000 to 2019 in CNKI journal database, and summarized the existing research results from two aspects of management and individual miners. The results show that the core scientific research force in the field has initially formed from the perspective of human factors in China, and the research mainly focuses on the exploration of miners' unsafe behavior and unsafe psychological factors. It is found that the research focus and methods are gradually changing from behavioral theory and cognitive psychology to cognitive neurology. In the future, more advanced neurometric tools are expected to reveal the behavior mechanism of miners.