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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wilson | Thomas | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Cunningham | William M. | 1897 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Fall of rock on mail level |
| Hyatt | Percy | 1903 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Killed in return side of fire door conveyors |
| Jordan | Percy or Perdy | 1908 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Run over by rake |
| Hacquoil | Alexander | 1914 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fatal injuries |
| Murphy | Carl G. | 1921 | Cumberland | Springhill | Caught between beam of screen floor and break wheel of a moving railway car |
| Pettigrew | Charles | 1924 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall of stone |
| Czanoli or Czalonic | John | 1931 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall of stone |
| Hunter | Joseph E. | 1941 | Cumberland | Cumberland Railway & Coal | Crushed by conveyor belt |
| Jacob or Jacobs | Louis L. | 1944 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Fall of stone |
| Goode | Allen H. | 1952 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Killed by haulage |
| Fear | John L. | 1954 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Bump; 1 of 5 killed |
| Betts | David | 1956 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Electricity-fired coal dust explosion |
| Lewis | Harold | 1956 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Electricity-fired coal dust explosion |
| Vance | David | 1956 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | On bankhead, Electricity-fired coal dust explosion |
| Corkum | Clyde | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| Hyatt | Warren | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| McLeod | Varley | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| Reid | Lester | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| White | Carl | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| Lockhart | Dan | 1883 | Cumberland | Chignecto | Killed by cage going off track |
| Boudreau or Budro | Lemuel | 1907 | Cumberland | Strathcona | Burnt by gas fire |
| Jennings | Thomas | 1915 | Cumberland | Joggins | Fall of stone |
| Cope | William A. | 1922 | Cumberland | Victoria | Caught between roof and car on slope, died 30 days later |
| LeBlanc | Joseph Adolph | 1931 | Cumberland | Victoria No. 4 (Bright Light Mine) | Explosion; 1 of 6 killed |
| Melanson | Frank | 1951 | Cumberland | Cochran | |
| Turner | George | 1886 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall of top coal |
| Brunt | Andrew | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Connorton | John | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Gillis | John | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| McDonald | Rory B. | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| McNeil | Neil S. | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Nairn | Michael or Malcolm | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Ross | Philip | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Wood | George | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Chapman | George | 1897 | Cumberland | Springhill Surface | Cause not recorded |
| Purdy | Charles L. | 1903 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Fall of rock |
| Ripley | Edward | 1908 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Fell into chute |
| Sennio | Antonio | 1914 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Died in Halifax in 1914 |
| Casey | Archibald | 1921 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Struck by rake of coal |
| Sweeney | John W. | 1924 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall of stone |
| Vance | Alexander | 1931 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Squeezed between two boxes |
| O'Brien | Thomas E. | 1941 | Cumberland | Cumberland Railway & Coal | Pulmonary embolism |
| MacKay | Daniel L. | 1944 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Bump |
| Canning | William G. | 1952 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Found dead in mine |
| Hunter | Wesley | 1954 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Bump; 1 of 5 killed |
| Boutilier | Ernest | 1956 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Electricity-fired coal dust explosion |
| MacDonald | Leslie | 1956 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | On bankhead, Electricity-fired coal dust explosion |
| Ward | George T. | 1956 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Electricity-fired coal dust explosion |
| Crowe | Hance | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |