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 |
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Dugas | Alex | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Colonial | Crushed between box and rib |
Steele | Alex | 1928 | Cape Breton County | Florence | Fall of stone |
McIntyre | Alex | 1929 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Struck by cage |
Rordenan | Alex | 1919 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 5 | Fall of stone |
McCosh | Alex | 1890 | Cape Breton County | Gowrie | Fall of stone from roof |
Caporallo | Alex | 1936 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Struck by trip |
Glenn | Alex | 1895 | Pictou County | Acadia | Fall from roof of working face |
MacKinnon | Alex | 1905 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Bump |
Spence | Alex | 1956 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Draegerman; carbon monoxide post explosion |
McSween | Alex | 1954 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Construction |
Degaust | Alex | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 7 | Fall of stone |
Aexter | Alex | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines No. 3 (Florence) | Explosion |
Foster | Alex | 1894 | Pictou County | Albion | Run over by a coal trip |
McGillivray | Alex | 1871 | Pictou County | Foord pit | Killed in the Foord by gas |
MacLean | Alex | 1867 | Pictou County | unidentified shaft being sunk or Cage pit | Methane explosion |
McLeod | Alex | 1933 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Run over by trip |
Jenson or Jamieson | Alex | 1914 | Pictou County | Albion | Run over by a box |
LeBlanc | Alex | 1927 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Crushed: 2 runaway boxes hit box he was lifting |
Bigney or Bignay | Alex | 1908 or 1909 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Fall of stone |
Arseneau | Alex | 1916 | Cumberland | Victoria | Fall of roof |
MacLean | Alex | 1937 | Pictou County | Acadia No. 7 (Moss mine) | Fall of coal |
Dixon | Alex | 1943 | Inverness | Inverness No. 1 | Fall of stone |
Campbell | Alex | 1956 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Electricity-fired coal dust explosion |
Graham | Alex | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 15 | Fall of stone |
McGowen | Alex | 1886 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines (Princess?) | Dropped dead at face by heart disease |
McNeil | Alex H | 1941 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 24 | Attempted to get on moving train |
MacKenzie | Alex J. | 1970 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Struck by a trip on the south angle |
McDonald | Alex P. | 1943 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Crushed between boxes |
Munroe | Alex W. | 1942 | Pictou County | McGregor | Hit by a trip |
Hill | Alexander | 1923 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Caught by flywheel in starting haulage engine |
Holland | Alexander | 1929 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal |
Bonner | Alexander | 1920 | Cape Breton County | Florence | Fall of coal; 1 of 2 killed |
Eloi | Alexander | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
Vance | Alexander | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
Ryan | Alexander | 1873 | Cape Breton County | Lingan | Fall of coal |
Cameron | Alexander | 1978 | Cape Breton County | Lingan | Fall of stone |
Vance | Alexander | 1931 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Squeezed between two boxes |
Ross | Alexander | 1872 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Methane explosion |
Hacquoil | Alexander | 1914 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fatal injuries |
Ross | Alexander | 1911 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Struck by a rake |
MacDonald | Alexander | 1922 | Inverness | bootleg pit | Methane gas poisoning; 1 of 3 killed |
Pashkoski or Pasoshki | Alexander | 1946 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 | Killed by haulage |
McEachern | Alexander | 1882 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Killed by a rake of full pit tubs |
Cameron | Alexander | 1888 | Pictou County | English Slopes (abandoned) | Overground as a boiler was being lowered |
Cameron | Alexander | 1906 | Pictou County | Vale | Run over by a hopper in pit yard |
Smith | Alexander | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
MacDonald | Alexander | 1880 | Pictou County | Foord pit | Devastating methane explosion |
Gabriel | Alexander | 1918 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall of stone |
Murray | Alexander | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
Howie | Alexander | 1901 | Cape Breton County | Caledonia | Killed by runaway coal wagon in east deep |