Coal Mining Fatalities
This database contains 2497 known Nova Scotia coal mining fatalities. Names, dates, places, mines, and causes of death have been painstakingly compiled. Despite this, it is by no means a complete list. Fatalities occurred before records were kept; descriptions of incidents and those involved were lost along with coal company records. Official recording of multiple deaths may have missed some names; in some cases, names are misspelled. However, this is likely the most complete list that exists. Please contact us if you know names to add.
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| Surname | Given Name(s) | Year |
County |
Mine | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eveleigh | G. Hector William | 1941 | Cape Breton County | Indian Cove Coal Company | Explosion; 1 of 2 killed |
| Pembroke | James | 1942 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Struck by rake |
| Marsh | Henry | 1943 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 25 | Drowned; 1 of 2 killed |
| O'Toole | Terrance | 1943 | Cape Breton County | Franklin | Crushed between box and timber |
| McMullin | Roderick | 1945 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 18 | Fall of stone; 1 of 2 killed |
| Salcon | Trifon | 1946 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Haulage |
| Melnick | Steve | 1948 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Haulage |
| Lyons | Thomas | 1949 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 24 | Fall of stone |
| Clarke | Edward | 1951 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 26 | Fall of stone |
| Ledger | Walter | 1952 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Fall of stone |
| Ferguson | Robert | 1954 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Haulage |
| Head | George | 1955 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Fall of stone |
| Moseychuck | Victor | 1957 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Haulage |
| Campbell | James | 1958 | Cape Breton County | Four Star | Electrical |
| Brown | Albert | 1960 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Fall of stone |
| Cameron | John | 1962 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Haulage |
| Hogan | Cornelius | 1964 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Fall of stone |
| Seward | John | 1967 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 26 | Haulage: Run over by empty trip |
| Martell | John Alexander | 1970 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 12 | Squeezed between 2 boxes on material landing |
| Cameron | Alexander | 1978 | Cape Breton County | Lingan | Fall of stone |
| MacDougall | Alphonse | 1982 | Cape Breton County | Lingan | Heart Attack |
| Luckman | John | 1870 | Cape Breton County | International | Crushed by cage |
| Ryan | Alexander | 1873 | Cape Breton County | Lingan | Fall of coal |
| Oram | William | 1878 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines (Princess) | Methane explosion; 1 of 6 killed |
| Jones | James | 1889 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines (Princess?) | Explosion of methane |
| Walsh | Patrick | 1893 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines (Princess?) | Fall of coal from working face |
| Robertson | Robert | 1896 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines (Princess?) | Walked in under cage |
| McCormick or McCormack | Stephen | 1899 | Cape Breton County | Caledonia | Afterdamp from methane explosion; 1 of 11 killed |
| Marshall | Willian | 1900 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Caught between cage and roof |
| McDougald | Murdock | 1901 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fatally injured on surface between 2 cars |
| McAdam | Cyril | 1892 | Cape Breton County | Victoria | Scalded by boiler explosion, died 9 days later 1 of 3 killed |
| Quann | Joseph | 1903 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 3 | Caught between loaded box and pillar |
| Jesso | Simon | 1904 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines Colliery; Nova Scotia Steel & Coal | Killed by fall of stone |
| McKinnon | Daniel | 1906 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of coal; died in hospital |
| LeBlanc | Edward | 1906 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines (Princess) | Struck by a moving box |
| Grant | William | 1907 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 6 | Fall of stone |
| McNeil | Michael A. | 1908 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of coal and stone |
| D'Orsay | John | 1908 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines (Princess) | Overwind man-shaft cage; 1of 2 killed |
| Crain | John | 1909 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 3 | Fall of stone |
| Kuss | Anthony | 1910 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Fall of stone face |
| Laffin | Ambrose | 1889 | Cape Breton County | Victoria; possibly Cumberland Co. | Killed by loose coal by face of junk while at work in his room |
| Ferguson | Robenich | 1903 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines Colliery; Nova Scotia Steel & Coal | Fall of stone |
| Hawes | Thomas | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Fall of stone in pillar |
| Bacarro | Guissippi | 1912 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Jammed between trip and door |
| McKinnon | Rod | 1912 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Fall of stone |
| McDonald | Dan | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| McDonald | Dan | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 8 | Fell over trestle |
| Lawlor | Richard | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Runaway box |
| Lebonis | Andre | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Fall of stone |
| Cavasotte | Fernando | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of coal |