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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Favier | Thomas | 1911 | Pictou County | Acadia | Crushed between rib and full box |
| Francis | James | 1938 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Struck by cage lever on surface; died 3 days later |
| Freeman | Henry | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Grasesnack | C. G. | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Hamilton | William | 1950 | Pictou County | Albion | Fall of coal |
| Heyne | Victor | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| James | Laurence Elwyn | 1992 | Pictou County | Westray | Devastating methane and coal dust explosion |
| Kayens | Felician | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Launey | Francis | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Lohez | Joseph | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| MacDonald | F. | 1902 | Pictou County | Vale | Powder explosion; 1 of 2 killed |
| MacKay | John | 1953 | Pictou County | McGregor | Haulage accident: thrown from trip |
| MacLean | John | 1866 | Pictou County | Dalhousie pit | Fall of coal |
| Mahoney | Patrick | 1866 | Pictou County | Dalhousie pit | Fall of coal |
| McCarney | unknown | 1866 | Pictou County | Above ground, at Acadia wharf | Fell and struck his head |
| McElvie | Hugh | 1880 | Pictou County | Foord pit | influx of water; 1 of 6 killed |
| McKinnon | Rod #1 | 1880 | Pictou County | Foord pit | Devastating methane explosion |
| McNeal | John Jr. | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Morrison | Laughlin | 1880 | Pictou County | Albion | Fall of coal |
| Murdock | William | 1880 | Pictou County | Foord pit | Devastating methane explosion |
| O'Brien | J. D. | 1939 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fall of coal from roof |
| Potts | John | 1874 | Pictou County | Foord pit | Rope broke on bucket going down pump shaft |
| Roberts | John | 1880 | Pictou County | Foord pit | Devastating methane explosion |
| Russell | unknown | 1858 | Pictou County | Cage pit | Carbon monoxide after methane explosion 1of 2 killed |
| Short | Romeo Andrew | 1992 | Pictou County | Westray | Devastating methane and coal dust explosion |
| Stanton | James | 1892 | Pictou County | Albion | Under engine hit by hoppers and run over |
| Taylor | John | 1873 | Pictou County | Vale | Fall with tub in slope |
| Van Larkin | Dominic | 1924 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Carbon monoxide suffocation after explosion; 1 of 4 killed |
| Wilson | George | 1935 | Pictou County | Drummond (Intercolonial) No. 2 Scott slope | Fall of coal |
| Patton | William | 1883 | Cumberland | Chignecto | Suffocated by carbonic acid (1 of 3 killed) |
| Coleman | John H. | 1908 or 1909 | Cumberland | Joggins | Suffocated by smoke |
| Arseneau | Alex | 1916 | Cumberland | Victoria | Fall of roof |
| Soloman | David Allen | 1928 | Cumberland | Maple Leaf No. 4 | Run over by a full trip of boxes |
| Hachey | William | 1932 | Cumberland | Maple Leaf No. 4 | Dust and gas explosion; 1 of 5 killed |
| Hoeg | Jesse Havelock | 1959 | Cumberland | Cochran | Fall of stone |
| McNeil | Henry | 1876 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | cause not recorded |
| May | George | 1887 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fatally hurt |
| Campbell | John D | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Davis | Thomas | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Hannager | Peter | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| McGillvary | William 2nd | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| McPhee | Neil | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Nicholson | Malcolm | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Sherlock | Robert A. | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Armishaw | Herbert | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Lowther | William | 1900 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Leg broken in fall of stone at working face |
| Foster | Archie | 1904 | Cumberland | Aberdeen | Caught between box and chute; died on beaching bank |
| Delaney | Douglas | 1909 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Killed by runaway box |
| Gillespie | David | 1916 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Struck by cage |
| Jones | Hezekiah | 1922 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall of stone and coal from face |