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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burkett | "young" | 1880 | Pictou County | Foord pit | Devastating methane explosion |
| Campbell | Colin | 1883 | Pictou County | Vale | Drawbar broke, crash of runaway slope rake |
| Christopher | George | 1879 | Pictou County | Vale | Rope broke while on loaded tubs |
| Cooke | H. A. | 1905 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fell when staging broke in shaft as they were sinking it |
| Darroch or Darrah | Andrew | 1898 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Rock fall |
| Dunbar | Robert | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Feltmate | Roy Edward | 1992 | Pictou County | Westray | Devastating methane and coal dust explosion |
| Fraser | Simon | 1868 | Pictou County | Acadia | Crushed between two cars |
| Frew | William | 1906 | Pictou County | English Slopes (abandoned) | Methane exploded when boy lit match while playing near old slope opening; 1 of 2 killed |
| Green | Frank | 1908 | Pictou County | Albion | Struck by a box on balance |
| Hand | James | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Hickman | Henry | 1869 | Pictou County | Marsh Colliery (not Marsh mine) | Fall down shaft |
| Jamieson | Alexander | 1914 | Pictou County | Albion | Killed by cage |
| Kayens | Joseph | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Lawrence | James | 1935 | Pictou County | Albion | From injuries received a few months before |
| Lonergan | Michael | 1932 | Pictou County | Albion | Fell over a bench of coal |
| MacDonald | J. P. | 1907 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Killed by box at bottom of balance |
| MacKay | Michael Frederick | 1992 | Pictou County | Westray | Devastating methane and coal dust explosion |
| MacLean | Alex | 1867 | Pictou County | unidentified shaft being sunk or Cage pit | Methane explosion |
| Mailman | John | 1952 | Pictou County | McGregor | Methane explosion (localized); 1 of 19 killed |
| McCharles | Roderick | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| McGilchrist or Gilgrist | John | 1866 | Pictou County | Foster pit | Clothing caught in hoist winding drum |
| McKinnon | Rod #2 | 1880 | Pictou County | Foord pit | Devastating methane explosion |
| McNeil | Dan | 1885 | Pictou County | Vale | Devastating methane explosion |
| Morrison | John #1 | 1880 | Pictou County | Foord pit | Devastating methane explosion |
| Murphy | John | 1929 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fall of coal |
| Pagella | Karal | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Potts | Charles | 1915 | Pictou County | Albion | Crushed by a trip of coal |
| Roberts | Charles D. | 1925 | Pictou County | Acadia No. 3 (Six-Foot) | Carpenter; struck by wood thrown from circular saw |
| Russell | David | 1952 | Pictou County | McGregor | Methane explosion (localized); 1 of 19 killed |
| Simpson | Robert | 1898 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Fall of coal while drawing pillar |
| Stentley | William | 1914 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fall of coal |
| Taylor | Henry | 1912 | Pictou County | Acadia | Knocked down by horse and run over by full trip |
| Vickers | Peter Francis | 1992 | Pictou County | Westray | Devastating methane and coal dust explosion |
| Winton | Robert | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Fraser | Grant | 1954 | Pictou County | McBean | victim found in No. 5 level |
| Andrews | Archibald | 1926 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Struck by metal that fell off ascending cage or chuck falling down shaft |
| Baxter | James | 1913 | Pictou County | Acadia | Fall of roof |
| Borden | Joseph | 1922 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fall of stone and coal |
| Burney | George | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Campbell | William | 1884 | Pictou County | Albion | Premature explosion of a shot |
| Clark | Samuel | 1925 | Pictou County | Thom or Tom pit | Killed by boxes |
| Copan | John | 1947 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Caught by a haulage cable |
| Davidson | Charles | 1894 | Pictou County | Acadia | Squeezed by a box of timber |
| Dunbar | Charles | 1880 | Pictou County | Foord pit | Devastating methane explosion |
| Ferguson | Henry | 1930 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Struck by an empty trip |
| Fraser | John | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Frye | John | 1914 | Pictou County | Albion | Riding a coal trip that derailed |
| Gunn | Stanley or David | 1906 | Pictou County | English Slopes (abandoned) | Methane exploded when boy lit match while playing near old slope opening; 1 of 2 killed |
| Hannaham or Hanrahan | William | 1883 | Pictou County | Vale | Drawbar broke, crash of runaway slope rake |