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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baudoux | John maybe George | 1930 | Pictou County | Albion (Purvis slope) | Riding an empty trip that derailed; killed by falling timbers and stone |
| Boquet | Berry | 1892 | Pictou County | Vale | Fall of coal from working face |
| Buko | Andrew | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Campbell | John | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Chisholm | Colin C. | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Conway | James | 1950 | Pictou County | Albion | Fall of coal |
| Dalling | James | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Drolet | Remi Joseph | 1992 | Pictou County | Westray | Devastating methane and coal dust explosion |
| Fanning | Willard | 1943 | Pictou County | Albion | Fall of coal from face |
| Frampton | Rod | 1939 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Run over by a loaded box |
| Fraser | Charles Robert | 1992 | Pictou County | Westray | Devastating methane and coal dust explosion |
| Grant | Dougald | 1899 | Pictou County | Vale | Methane explosion by naked light |
| Hamilton | James Y. | 1928 | Pictou County | Drummond No. 5 (Intercolonial No. 5) | Fell head first while timbering the roof when staging collaped under fall of heavy coal lump |
| Hennessy | Abraham | 1935 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Shot blew back exploding methane and coal dust; 1 of 7 killed |
| Jahn | Trevor Martin | 1992 | Pictou County | Westray | Devastating methane and coal dust explosion |
| Kaiser | Michael | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Lameaux | James | 1916 | Pictou County | Albion | Struck by a runaway box |
| Livingstone | Fred C. | 1957 | Pictou County | Greenwood No. 2 | Hit by a runaway coal box |
| MacDonald | John | 1880 | Pictou County | Foord pit | Devastating methane explosion |
| MacKay | Martin | 1931 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Heart attack in act of getting on riding rake |
| MacKinnon | Donald | 1873 | Pictou County | Foord pit | Fall of coal |
| MacRae | John Duncan | 1930 | Pictou County | Acadia No. 3 (Six-Foot) | Fall of Stone |
| McCallum | Harry Alliston | 1992 | Pictou County | Westray | Devastating methane and coal dust explosion |
| McElvie | John Jr | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| McKenzie | Frederick A. | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| McNeal | David | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Morgan | Delbert | 1951 | Pictou County | McGregor | Killed by fall of coal or stone from rib |
| Munsie | William | 1943 | Pictou County | McGregor | Crushed between a box and a steel boom |
| O'Brien | William | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Burrows | John | 1883 | Cumberland | Chignecto | Suffocated by carbonic acid (1 of 3 killed) |
| Sawyer | George | 1908 or 1909 | Cumberland | Joggins | Suffocated by smoke |
| Moffat | Clifford | 1915 | Cumberland | Minudie | Fall of stone |
| Wood | David Edgar | 1924 | Cumberland | Strathcona | Fall of roof |
| Boudreau | Daniel J. | 1932 | Cumberland | Maple Leaf No. 4 | Dust and gas explosion; 1 of 5 killed |
| Burke | Frederick John | 1957 | Cumberland | Bayview | Fall of stone |
| Townsend | Leonard | 1876 | Cumberland | Spring Hill Colliery Mine | Crushed by drum, fall of a gin |
| McDonald | William | 1887 | Cumberland | Springhill | Fall of coal from face |
| Campbell | Donald | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Crawford | john | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Hallet | Thomas | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| McFadden | Robert | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| McNutt | Charles | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Nash | Charles | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Sharples | James | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Wry | Henry | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Fraser | William K. | 1898 | Cumberland | Springhill Surface | Cause not recorded |
| Elbridge | Clifford | 1904 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall in chute, smothered by coal |
| LeBlanc | Tillman | 1909 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Haulage rope injury |
| Ridgeway | George | 1915 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Fall of stone |
| McDonald | Allan | 1922 | Cumberland | No.9 ? (may be Glace Bay) | Fall of stone |