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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| McDonald | D. W. C. | 1918 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of stone |
| Donnelly | Robert | 1918 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Fall of stone |
| Boutilier | Angus | 1920 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Fall of roof |
| Turner | Alfred | 1921 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Struck by horse; in falling pick stabbed abdomen |
| MacKeigan | John | 1922 | Cape Breton County | Jubilee, River Hebert | Fall of roof stone in level, died 21 days later |
| Beasley | Isaac | 1922 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of stone from roof in room |
| McIntosh | Michael | 1924 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 24 | Fall of stone |
| McAulay | Ronald | 1925 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 22 | Fall of stone |
| Hariett | Daniel | 1926 | Cape Breton County | Colonial No. 1 | Caught in longwall machine cutter chain |
| Nicholson | William | 1927 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Squeezed between box and pillar |
| Gallant | Raymond | 1928 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Killed by rake |
| Bonner | Harry | 1929 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of stone |
| Walsh | P. Joseph | 1929 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Struck by runaway box |
| Bozeman | John | 1931 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal |
| Waye | Daniel | 1931 | Cape Breton County | Florence | Fall of coal from face |
| Grycorn | John | 1933 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Fall of stone |
| Russell | James | 1934 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Heart failure |
| McDonald | Angus V. | 1935 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Struck by trip |
| Hall | William | 1937 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 5 | Run over by full box |
| McMahon | Joseph | 1937 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Fall of stone |
| McPhee | Malcolm | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Broken cable on riding rake; 1 of 21 killed |
| Luffman | William | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Broken cable on riding rake; 1 of 21 killed |
| Cirotto | Giovanni | 1940 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Fall of stone |
| McIntyre | Donald | 1941 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Fall of stone |
| Gouthro | John W. | 1942 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Struck by trip |
| McKinnon | Joseph | 1943 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 14 | Gas asphixiation; 1 of 2 killed |
| Collins | William | 1943 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Crushed under trip |
| Treige | John | 1945 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 11 | Struck by level trip |
| O'Neil | Dan J. | 1946 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Bump (more than 2 miles offshore); 1 of 4 killed |
| Campbell | Gregory | 1948 | Cape Breton County | Lloyds No. 7 | Machinery |
| Miller | Charles | 1949 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| MacDonald | John T. | 1951 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall in shaft |
| MacDonald | Dan W, | 1952 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 24 | Fall of stone |
| Schobarlietner | Frank | 1954 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Haulage |
| Kennedy | Archie | 1955 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 18 | Fall of stone |
| Fraser | Gervoise Leo | 1957 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Haulage |
| Shaw | Thomas | 1958 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Haulage |
| Cole | Eugene | 1960 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 26 | Fall of stone |
| White | Richard | 1962 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 26 | Haulage |
| MacKinnon | Daniel | 1964 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Fall of stone |
| Canova | Fred | 1968 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Haulage: Run over by runaway motor when he jumped off |
| MacKenzie | Alex J. | 1970 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Struck by a trip on the south angle |
| Tighe | Alan | 1979 | Cape Breton County | Lingan | Accident at a trip at a landing underground |
| Raeshore | Wayne | 1982 | Cape Breton County | Prince | |
| McLellan | A. | 1870 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines Colliery (Queen pit) | Run over by loconotive |
| McNamara | William | 1877 | Cape Breton County | Lingan | Explosion of boiler; 1 of 3 killed |
| Boutilier | W. | 1879 | Cape Breton County | Reserve | Taking down coal loosened by shot |
| McCosh | Alex | 1890 | Cape Breton County | Gowrie | Fall of stone from roof |
| Fraser | Stephen | 1894 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fell 68 feet from smoke stack, died 5 days later |
| Lund | John | 1897 | Cape Breton County | Reserve | Caught between coal box and pillar |