As an effective method， drilling technology has been used in emergency rescue in mine disasters. In this paper， according to different application objectives， emergency rescue drilling holes are divided into life support holes， life-saving holes， drainage holes， fire holes， gas drainage holes and so on. Three typical drilling techniques， including life support hole drilling technology， drainage hole drilling technology and large diameter life-saving hole drilling technology， have been successfully applied in mine disaster emergency rescue work and achieved good results. Strengthening the research and development of drilling equipment and related drilling technology will promote the development of emergency rescue in mine disaster accidents.