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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hale | Milledge | 1938 | Pictou County | Drummond No. 5 (Intercolonial No. 5) | Struck by falling timber |
| Semenuk | Mike | 1940 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal |
| McKinnon | Mick | 1904 | Cape Breton County | International | Fall of stone from roof |
| Nairn | Michael or Malcolm | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| McNeil | Michael L. | 1903 | Cape Breton County | Reserve | Methane explosion No.5 S level, French slope |
| McNeil | Michael K. | 1923 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of stone in room |
| McInnis | Michael J. | 1933 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Struck by a runaway empty trip |
| MacKay | Michael Frederick | 1992 | Pictou County | Westray | Devastating methane and coal dust explosion |
| Young | Michael F. | 1979 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Methane explosion, sparked by coal shearer hitting stone; 1 of 12 killed |
| Gardner | Michael A. | 1916 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Fall of roof |
| McNeil | Michael A. | 1908 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of coal and stone |
| McMullin | Michael | 1955 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Fall of stone |
| Kavanaugh | Michael | 1933 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Overcome by gas |
| Cathcart | Michael | 1942 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Struck by box |
| Pembroke | Michael | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| O'Handley | Michael | 1928 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 14 | Caught between box and rib |
| McInnis | Michael | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Run over by trip |
| Currie | Michael | 1966 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 26 | Fall of stone |
| Tomkins | Michael | 1949 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Haulage |
| Curry | Michael | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of stone |
| Machuniski | Michael | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Explosion of Powder |
| Cameron | Michael | 1874 | Cape Breton County | Victoria | |
| McInnes | Michael | 1926 | Cape Breton County | Dominon No. 11 | Trip of boxes left rails |
| King | Michael | 1968 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 26 | Haulage: Caught between rail and box when motor trip struck standing boxes |
| Roberts | Michael | 1979 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Methane explosion, sparked by coal shearer hitting stone; 1 of 12 killed |
| Kaiser | Michael | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Lonergan | Michael | 1932 | Pictou County | Albion | Fell over a bench of coal |
| Curry | Michael | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |
| Waugh | Michael | 1923 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Caught in worm-gear of coal conveyor |
| O'Leary | Michael | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |
| Breen | Michael | 1898 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Rock fall |
| Martin | Michael | 1901 | Pictou County | Albion | Whirled around a shaft |
| Buchanan | Michael | 1964 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 26 | Fall of stone |
| McIntosh | Michael | 1924 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 24 | Fall of stone |
| Tobin | Michael | 1924 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Between full box and timber |
| Young | Michael | 1900 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines (Princess) | Run over by trip while trying to get on it |
| Casey | Michael | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Fall of stone |
| McNeil | Michael | 1926 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Fall of stone |
| Angelo | Michael | 1932 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 11 | Fall of stone |
| Brown | Michael | 1928 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 14 | Fall of coal |
| Benoit | Merle | 1880 | Pictou County | Foord pit | influx of water; 1 of 6 killed |
| Weatherbee or Westhester | Melvin | 1908 or 1909 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Riding on full box |
| Thompson | Melvin | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| MacLeod | Melvin | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Broken cable on riding rake; 1 of 21 killed |
| Melanson | Melos | 1923 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Bump caused fall of stone from crosscut roof |
| Porter | Melburn Parker | 1944 | Cumberland | Standard (Sweetcake) or Strathcona No.2 | Fall of stone |
| Doucette | Medric | 1944 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 24 | Fall of stone |
| Seaman | Max | 1909 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Electric wire |
| Raggar | Max | 1951 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 18 | Fall of stone |
| Reashor | Maurice | 1968 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Coronary heart attack |