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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carmichael | William | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Dunn | John | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Johnson | James | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| McKinnon | Allen | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Mitchell | John | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Piquinot | James | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Swift | Henry | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Tebo or Tebe | James | 1893 or 1894 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 slope | Full box struck prop from under boom |
| Sweet | Eben | 1902 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall down chute |
| Henderson | William | 1905 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Fall of coal |
| Bulmer | Walter | 1911 or 1912 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Struck by ginney (aka jinney or jig) or prop |
| Gabriel | Alexander | 1918 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall of stone |
| Melanson | Melos | 1923 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Bump caused fall of stone from crosscut roof |
| Fagon | Edward | 1930 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 6 | Fall of roof; 1 of 2 killed |
| Budd | Walter R. | 1937 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Fall of stone |
| Megeney | Vernour | 1943 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Struck and Run over by rake |
| McGraw | Ernest | 1948 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall of stone; 1 of 2 killed |
| Casey | James W. | 1953 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Killed by haulage |
| Reese | Lloyd | 1955 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Killed by haulage |
| Dawson | Gerald | 1956 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Electricity-fired coal dust explosion |
| Nelson | Lester | 1956 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | On bankhead, Electricity-fired coal dust explosion |
| Backa | Andrew | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| Goode | Kenneth | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| McCormack | Lenard | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| Nicholson | Fred | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| Spence | Percy | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| Pike | Jabez | 1894 | Cumberland | Joggins | Run over by full rake |
| Rector | Daniel | 1912 | Cumberland | Minudie | Fall of stone |
| Wood | Jasper E. or R. | 1919 | Cumberland | St. George | Fell down slope, died 1 day later |
| McGrath | Clarence | 1930 | Cumberland | Victoria No. 2 | Gas explosion; 1 of 7 killed |
| Landry | Fidele D. | 1910 or 1938 | Cumberland | Maple Leaf No. 4 | Fall of stone |
| Maloney | James | 1973 | Cumberland | River Hebert Coal Mine, formerly Cochran | Died of natural causes in mine |
| Fletcher | William | 1883 | Cumberland | Springhill | Killed by fracture of brake bolt |
| Armishaw | Jesse | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Carrigan | William | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Dupee | Joseph | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Kent | William | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| McKinnon | Angus 2nd | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| McLeod | Henry | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Pitt | Joseph | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Tattersal | Joseph | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Matheson | Hugh Thomas | 1895 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 | Taking down top coal |
| Wilson | James | 1902 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fatally injured by full rake of boxes |
| MacKinnon | Alex | 1905 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Bump |
| Jones | Moses | 1912 or 1913 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Struck by rake in slope |
| Jerrold | Clement | 1918 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Struck by empty mine car |
| Miskin | Wasil | 1923 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Bump caused fall of stone in room/bord; 1 of 2 killed |
| Morse | Harry | 1930 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 6 | Fall of roof; 1 of 2 killed |
| Maine or Main | Donald A. or Douglas | 1937 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Crushed by stone or wood on longwall |
| Weirich or Wetrich | Herman E. | 1943 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Caught in haulage rope |