Coal Mining Fatalities
This database contains 2498 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glenn | Alex | 1895 | Pictou County | Acadia | Fall from roof of working face |
| McIntyre | Alex | 1929 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Struck by cage |
| Degaust | Alex | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 7 | Fall of stone |
| Arseneau | Alex | 1916 | Cumberland | Victoria | Fall of roof |
| MacKinnon | Alex | 1905 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Bump |
| Aexter | Alex | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines No. 3 (Florence) | Explosion |
| MacLean | Alex | 1867 | Pictou County | unidentified shaft being sunk or Cage pit | Methane explosion |
| Foster | Alex | 1894 | Pictou County | Albion | Run over by a coal trip |
| Jenson or Jamieson | Alex | 1914 | Pictou County | Albion | Run over by a box |
| McSween | Alex | 1954 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Construction |
| LeBlanc | Alex | 1927 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Crushed: 2 runaway boxes hit box he was lifting |
| Spence | Alex | 1956 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Draegerman; carbon monoxide post explosion |
| MacLean | Alex | 1937 | Pictou County | Acadia No. 7 (Moss mine) | Fall of coal |
| Bigney or Bignay | Alex | 1908 or 1909 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Fall of stone |
| McGillivray | Alex | 1871 | Pictou County | Foord pit | Killed in the Foord by gas |
| Dixon | Alex | 1943 | Inverness | Inverness No. 1 | Fall of stone |
| Liddle | Alex | 1904 | Cumberland | Chignecto | Caught between box & coal crib, died 9 days later |
| Graham | Alex | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 15 | Fall of stone |
| Campbell | Alex | 1956 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Electricity-fired coal dust explosion |
| McLeod | Alex | 1933 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Run over by trip |
| McGowen | Alex | 1886 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines (Princess?) | Dropped dead at face by heart disease |
| Young | Alex | 1949 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Haulage |
| Dugas | Alex | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Colonial | Crushed between box and rib |
| Nichelson | Alex | 1889 | Cape Breton County | Victoria | |
| Rordenan | Alex | 1919 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 5 | Fall of stone |
| 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 |
| Ryan | Alexander | 1873 | Cape Breton County | Lingan | Fall of coal |
| Holland | Alexander | 1929 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal |
| Hacquoil | Alexander | 1914 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fatal injuries |
| Ross | Alexander | 1872 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Methane explosion |
| Smith | Alexander | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| MacDonald | Alexander | 1922 | Inverness | bootleg pit | Methane gas poisoning; 1 of 3 killed |
| Ross | Alexander | 1911 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Struck by a rake |
| Vance | Alexander | 1931 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Squeezed between two boxes |
| 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 |
| Pashkoski or Pasoshki | Alexander | 1946 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 | Killed by haulage |
| 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 |
| Bond | Alexander | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Sydney No. 3 (Florence) | Fall of coal |
| Jamieson | Alexander | 1914 | Pictou County | Albion | Killed by cage |
| Brunt | Alexander | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Cameron | Alexander | 1978 | Cape Breton County | Lingan | Fall of stone |
| Watts | Alexander | 1878 | Inverness | Port Hood | Explosion of steam boiler; 1 of 2 killed |