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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spencer | George | 1920 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Run over by horse and loaded box |
| Bonner | Alexander | 1920 | Cape Breton County | Florence | Fall of coal; 1 of 2 killed |
| Boutilier | John | 1922 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone caused by runaway boxes |
| Campbell | Ronald | 1922 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Struck by horse-hauled mine car |
| Seldon | George | 1923 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Fall of stone from roof in room |
| Pace | Alexander W. | 1925 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Fall of stone |
| McDonald | Lewis | 1926 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 24 | Fall of stone |
| Penny | Charles J. | 1927 | Cape Breton County | Florence | Fall of stone |
| McDougall | John J. | 1928 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 14 | Hit by a small stone |
| Stephens | Wendall | 1928 | Cape Breton County | Dominion 1A | Caught in conveyor in boiler room |
| Gillespie | James | 1929 | Cape Breton County | Florence | Fall of stone |
| Snow | William | 1930 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Struck head on roof when box jumped track |
| Hussey | John | 1931 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal and roof |
| McNeil | Neil | 1933 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 11 | Burned by electricity |
| Balzoni | Pietro | 1934 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| Miller | Edward | 1935 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal |
| Snow | Albert Joseph | 1936 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Run over by trip |
| Peretta | Silvio | 1937 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Fall of coal |
| Royal | James | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Struck by tub of coal |
| Dawe | Edward | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Broken cable on riding rake; 1 of 21 killed |
| Harte | Simon | 1939 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal |
| Rozmarinovich | Fred | 1941 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Crushed between box and drop |
| Martin | Francis | 1942 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Struck by box |
| McDonald | Angus L. | 1943 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Fall of stone |
| Young | Walter | 1943 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| Parsons | James | 1944 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Runaway trip; 1 of 3 killed |
| Fraser | Hugh | 1946 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Haulage |
| Gardiner | Ambrose | 1948 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 25 | Fall of stone |
| Boutilier | Fred | 1949 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Fall of stone |
| Wadden | Freeman | 1951 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 24 | Fall of stone |
| Gallivan | Joseph | 1952 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Haulage |
| MacKinnon | Dan | 1954 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| O'Leary | Vincent | 1955 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 25 | Haulage |
| MacNeil | Charles | 1957 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| McIsaac | Duncan | 1958 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 26 | Fall of stone |
| Sampson | Sanford | 1960 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 26 | Falling boom |
| Campbell | Charles | 1962 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Haulage |
| McIntyre | Arthur | 1964 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Fall of stone |
| Forrest | Stanley | 1967 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Natural Causes |
| MacArthur | Harry | 1970 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 12 | Killed on main haulage deep |
| LeBlanc | Daniel | 1976 | Cape Breton County | Lingan | Struck by a material trip |
| Banville | Patrick | 1981 | Cape Breton County | Lingan | Heart Attack |
| McIntyre | W. | 1868 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines Colliery (Queen pit) | Crushed by machinery |
| Neville | john | 1873 | Cape Breton County | International | Crushed by train |
| Millville | Edward | 1878 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines (Princess) | Methane explosion; 1 of 6 killed |
| McDonald | Hugh | 1889 | Cape Breton County | Reserve | Fall of loose coal |
| Boutilier | John | 1893 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines (Princess?) | Firedamp escaped from submerged district; (methane poisoning) |
| McLennan | Philip | 1896 | Cape Breton County | Reserve | Fall of roof coal while loading |
| McAulay | Malcolm | 1899 | Cape Breton County | Caledonia | Afterdamp from methane explosion; 1 of 11 killed |
| Nolan | John | 1900 | Cape Breton County | Caledonia | Coal fall in room, died next day |