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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Osterfishok | Simon | 1909 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of coal from face |
| McDonald | Ronald | 1909 | Cape Breton County | North Atlantic Collieries | Crushed between full box and engine |
| McDonald | M. | 1910 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Fall of stone |
| Riciselts | Vincent | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Scotia (possibly Cumberland Co.) | Fall of stone |
| Hennessey | Joseph | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Fall of stone, leg injured |
| Ferguson | Archie F. | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines No. 3 (Florence) | Methane explosion and coal dust; 1 of 8 killed |
| Cauffery | Albert | 1912 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 15 | Premature shot |
| Shoder | Martin | 1912 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Fall of roof |
| Andrews | Wilfred | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 6 | Fall of stone |
| Ferguson | A.T. | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Killed by a box |
| Neary | Andrew | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 7 | Fell under moving car |
| Brown | Thomas | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of stone |
| Boutilier | Seth | 1916 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 6 | Trip ran over him, died 7 days later |
| Hutchinson | William | 1916 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Killed by cage |
| Cummings | James | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Caught between cars and rib |
| Coleman | Peter | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |
| Killoway | Arthur | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |
| Milley | Nelson | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |
| Skacun | Mitro | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |
| McGill | James | 1918 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Runaway car |
| Boutilier | Thomas | 1919 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 15 | Fall of stone |
| McDonald | Kenneth | 1920 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 11 | Crushed between box and pillar |
| McDougall | Allan | 1921 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Fall of stone |
| Prentice | Patrick | 1923 | Cape Breton County | Colonial No. 2 | Electric wire |
| Handrigan | John | 1923 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 14 | Fall of stone in pillar work; 1 of 2 killed |
| Devoe | James | 1924 | Cape Breton County | Florence | Killed by box on main deep |
| Roach | Dan | 1926 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Fall of stone |
| Fitzner | John | 1927 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| Young | George | 1927 | Cape Breton County | Colonial No. 1 | Fall of stone |
| McDonald | John | 1928 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 24 | Fall of coal |
| Strang | Thomas L. | 1929 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Donkey runner; caught in rope on drum |
| Chiasson | Joseph R. | 1930 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Fall of stone |
| Gerard | Daniel | 1931 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 14 | Engine and bed raised by jerk; he fell underneath |
| Kavanaugh | Michael | 1933 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Overcome by gas |
| Kutzyk | Matthew | 1934 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal |
| Martin | Isadore | 1934 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Fall of stone |
| Bradbury | Isaac | 1936 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2, Surface | Fell in pickling tank on surface |
| Clarke | Herbert | 1937 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Fall of stone |
| Michaelites | Joseph | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Run over by trip |
| McPhee | Donald | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Broken cable on riding rake; 1 of 21 killed |
| Harris | John | 1939 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 11 | Fall of stone |
| McNeil | Alex H | 1941 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 24 | Attempted to get on moving train |
| Phalen | Louis | 1942 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Struck by trip; 1 of 2 killed |
| McMullin | James | 1943 | Cape Breton County | Tomson | Injured while replacing derailed box |
| MacComiskey | Owen | 1943 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Struck by trip |
| McLeod | Thomas | 1944 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal and stone |
| Nicoloff | George | 1945 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Fall of coal |
| Cobert | James | 1946 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Haulage |
| Young | Alex | 1949 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Haulage |
| MacDonald | Harry | 1950 | Cape Breton County | Florence | Fall of stone |