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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Connorton | John | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Green | John | 1871 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines Colliery (Queen pit) | Fall off bridge |
| Patten | John | 1941 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 11 | Runaway trip |
| McMillan | John | 1903 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Jammed between roof and box |
| Burrows | John | 1883 | Cumberland | Chignecto | Suffocated by carbonic acid (1 of 3 killed) |
| McDonald | John | 1903 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Caught between cage and pulleys |
| Campbell | John | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Broken cable on riding rake; 1 of 21 killed |
| McInnis | John | 1908 | Cape Breton County | International | Fall of stone |
| Mazur | John | 1931 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fall of Coal |
| Nicholson | John | 1881 | Pictou County | Vale | Caught between moving rake & door |
| McLean | John | 1937 | Inverness | Inverness | Struck by trip or rope |
| Kroput | John | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of stone |
| McDonald | John | 1943 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| Bozeman | John | 1931 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal |
| Finlayson | John | 1894 | Cape Breton County | Reserve | Fall of coal, died 15 days later |
| Stewart | John | 1936 | Cape Breton County | Colonial | Struck by runaway trip |
| Crawford | john | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Nicholson | John | 1883 | Pictou County | Vale | Drawbar broke, crash of runaway slope rake |
| Grycorn | John | 1933 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Fall of stone |
| Cummings | John | 1880 | Pictou County | Foord pit | Devastating methane explosion |
| Snow | John | 1972 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | |
| McMullin | John | 1907 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of stone |
| MacKeigan | John | 1922 | Cape Breton County | Jubilee, River Hebert | Fall of roof stone in level, died 21 days later |
| Jackson | John | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| Williams | John | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Martin | John | 1894 | Cape Breton County | Reserve | Piece of coal from roof |
| McAulay | John | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Morrison | John | 1947 | Cape Breton County | Greener | Fall of roof |
| McDonald | John | 1950 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Fall of coal |
| Nairn | John | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| O'Connor | John | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Fall of stone at longwall face |
| Cherpack | John | 1944 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Runaway trip; 1 of 3 killed |
| Wade or Mahoney | John | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines No. 3 (Florence) | Methane explosion and coal dust; 1 of 8 killed |
| Martin | John | 1918 | Cumberland | Jubilee No.2, River Hebert | Runaway mine car |
| Walton | John | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Kennedy | John | 1927 | Cape Breton County | Colonial | Electrocuted in logement |
| McDonald | John | 1899 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of stone at face of room |
| MacKenzie | John | 1963 | Pictou County | McBean | Labourer, killed underground |
| Beaver | John | 1954 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 25 | Fall of stone; 1 of 2 killed |
| Ellis | John | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Doyle | John | 1917 | Cumberland | Kimberly | Fall of stone, died 6 days later |
| D'Orsay | John | 1908 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines (Princess) | Overwind man-shaft cage; 1of 2 killed |
| MacDonald | John | 1880 | Pictou County | Foord pit | Devastating methane explosion |
| Boone | John | 1942 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Struck by trip; 1 of 2 killed |
| McIntosh | John | 1934 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Fall of coal |
| McNeil | John | 1927 | Inverness | Inverness No. 1 | Crushed by full boxes of coal |
| Fraser | John | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Drawing chocks out of a gob |
| Neal | John | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines No. 2 (Lloyd's Cove) | Struck by runaway box |
| McDonald | John | 1939 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| McDonald | John | 1918 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 9 | Runaway car, died 6 days later |