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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown | Leo | 1919 | Pictou County | Albion | Struck by a cage in a balance |
| Cameron | John W. | 1946 | Pictou County | Albion | Struck by coal trip on main slope |
| Cassey | Thomas | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Connolly | C. | 1880 | Pictou County | Vale | Burned by gas ignited by his open-flame lamp |
| Cunningham | Robert | 1952 | Pictou County | McGregor | Methane explosion (localized); 1 of 19 killed |
| Downs | William B. | 1910 | Pictou County | Albion | Scalded or burned, causes unknown; a machinist making repairs |
| Elliott | William | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Foley | Pat | 1885 | Pictou County | Vale | Devastating methane explosion |
| Fraser | Hiram | 1920 | Pictou County | Acadia No. 3 (Six-Foot) | Struck by railway car on surface |
| Glenwright | Thomas | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Hallam | Ernest | 1959 | Pictou County | Drummond (Intercolonial) No. 2 Scott slope | Fall of coal |
| Hayman | Wilbert | 1921 | Pictou County | McGregor | Fall of coal |
| Ince | William | 1938 | Pictou County | Acadia No. 7 (Moss mine) | Caught by fall of rock |
| Jones | Edward | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Laderie | Jules | 1924 | Pictou County | Albion | Struck down by a runaway box |
| Linthorne | Walter | 1969 | Pictou County | McBean | Caught in coal-cutting machine |
| MacDonald | D. | 1869 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Powder explosion |
| MacInnis | Hugh | 1924 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Carbon monoxide suffocation after explosion; 1 of 4 killed |
| MacKenzie | Hugh | 1918 | Pictou County | Albion | Crushed by cars |
| MacMillan | Daniel L | 1914 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Boiler explosion in surface plant; 1 of 7 killed |
| Mazur | John | 1931 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fall of Coal |
| McEachern | John | 1880 | Pictou County | Foord pit | Devastating methane explosion |
| McKay | Thomas | 1880 | Pictou County | Foord pit | Devastating methane explosion |
| McLeod | William | 1952 | Pictou County | McGregor | Methane explosion (localized); 1 of 19 killed |
| Mintis | William | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Muller | William | 1912 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fall of top coal at face of pillar |
| Nicholson | John | 1881 | Pictou County | Vale | Caught between moving rake & door |
| Perris or Paris | A. | 1905 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fell when staging broke in shaft as they were sinking it |
| Reid | Robert | 1868 | Pictou County | Acadia | Fall of earth on surface; working on rail line |
| Ross | Alexander | 1911 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Struck by a rake |
| Scott | Joseph | 1923 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fall of coal |
| Smith | Howard | 1924 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fall of stone |
| Sullivan | Peter | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Vaast | Lucien (boy) | 1916 | Pictou County | Thom or Tom pit | Gas explosion at mouth of abandoned slope; boy was chasing a ball |
| Wilkes | F. | 1905 | Pictou County | Marsh | Powder explosion |
| Bartholemew or Bartholomew | Joseph | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Blackwood | Thomas | 1914 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Carbon monoxide after devastating explosion; 1 of 2 killed |
| Brown | Murdock | 1934 | Pictou County | Drummond (Intercolonial) No. 2 Scott slope | Struck on head when taking coal to chute |
| Campbell | John | 1868 | Pictou County | Acadia | Fall of coal |
| Cassidy | Francis | 1894 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Run over by a coal trip |
| Conway | James D. | 1880 | Pictou County | Foord pit | influx of water; 1 of 6 killed |
| Cyr | William | 1920 | Pictou County | Drummond No. 5 (Intercolonial No. 5) | Run over by an empty box |
| Doyle | Edward | 1935 | Pictou County | Albion | Fall of rock |
| Ellis | John | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Forbes | Andrew | 1867 | Pictou County | unidentified shaft being sunk or Cage pit | Methane explosion |
| Fraser | John E. | 1921 | Pictou County | Albion | Fall of coal |
| Gossens | Octav | 1920 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fall of coal |
| Halliday | Duncan | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Hayman | Archibald | 1952 | Pictou County | McGregor | Methane explosion (localized); 1 of 19 killed |
| Isnor | Hubert | 1921 | Pictou County | Albion | Fall of coal |