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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| House | Randolph Brian | 1992 | Pictou County | Westray | Devastating methane and coal dust explosion |
| Johnson | James F. | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Kennedy | Mark | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Leonard | Elmer | 1910 | Pictou County | Albion | Fall of coal |
| Luther | Isaac | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| MacDonald | Allan | 1937 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Buried beneath fall of stone |
| MacKenzie | William | 1903 | Pictou County | Albion | Jumped from moving train in mine yard |
| MacLeod | Robert | 1880 | Pictou County | Foord pit | Devastating methane explosion |
| Martin | Roderick | 1917 | Pictou County | Albion | Suffocated in his draeger machine due to carbonic acid leak |
| McDonald | Daniel J. | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| McInnis | John | 1872 | Pictou County | Acadia | Fall of coal |
| McLeise | Bertram | 1880 | Pictou County | Foord pit | Devastating methane explosion |
| McPherson | Lemuel | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Moss | Albert | 1952 | Pictou County | McGregor | Methane explosion (localized); 1 of 19 killed |
| Nash | John | 1881 | Pictou County | Acadia | Devastating methane explosion |
| Passino | Lucien or Lucino | 1916 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fall of coal |
| Ramsey | James | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Rodgers | William | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Sample | Winton | 1952 | Pictou County | McGregor | Methane explosion (localized); 1 of 19 killed |
| Small | John D. | 1900 | Pictou County | Albion | Fall of coal |
| Stewart | James | 1906 | Pictou County | Albion | Struck by a rake |
| Thompson | Melvin | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Webb | James | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Young | Thomas | 1870 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Fall of coal |
| McDougall | Peter | 1897 | Cape Breton County | Victoria | Killed on balance, run over by cuddy |
| LeBlanc | Edward | 1906 | Cape Breton County | Sydney No. 3 (Florence) | Struck by moving box |
| Spiccochi | Higo | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 14 or Dominion No. 1 | Fall of coal from face |
| McSorley | Anthony | 1912 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Caught by rope and drawn behind drum |
| Curry | Michael | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of stone |
| Gillis | Peter | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Live wire |
| Zyales | Stainslaw | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 15 | Fall of stone |
| Baldwin | Philip | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Fall of stone |
| Degaust | Alex | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 7 | Fall of stone |
| Saccrey | John W. | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 9 | Fall of roof |
| Gardner | Michael A. | 1916 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Fall of roof |
| McDonald | A. J. | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Fall of coal |
| Butts | Joseph L. | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |
| Ferguson | Charles | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |
| McLellan | Andrew | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |
| Pietzrak or Pietchieck | Carl | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Rescue work after explosion |
| McDonald | John | 1918 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 9 | Runaway car, died 6 days later |
| McLeod | Daniel | 1919 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Struck by runaway box |
| Witstanley | John T. | 1920 | Cape Breton County | Florence | Fall of coal |
| Snow | John W. | 1921 | Cape Breton County | Florence | Fall of coal |
| Flemming | Edward | 1922 | Cape Breton County | Jubilee, Sydney Mines | Found dead with radial coalcutter resting on body |
| Walzak | Albert | 1923 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone from roof in pillar work |
| Thompson | William | 1924 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of stone and coal |
| Skinner | Richard | 1925 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Fall of stone |
| Kralieck | Bohuslon | 1926 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| Kernekant or Heinekamp | Herman | 1927 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |