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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cook | James I | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 7 | Fall of stone |
| Ransome | James H. | 1949 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| Rose | James H. | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |
| Johnson | James F. | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Flemming | James E. | 1945 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fall of stone |
| McDonald | James E. | 1921 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Killed crossing over haulage rope in motion, caught by boxes |
| Copeland | James E. | 1954 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Bump; 1 of 5 killed |
| Matheson | James E. | 1971 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Haulage: Struck by a trip of material |
| MacDonald | James D. | 1912 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fall of top coal at face of bord |
| Conway | James D. | 1880 | Pictou County | Foord pit | influx of water; 1 of 6 killed |
| Jobes | James D. | 1931 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Struck by box |
| Dakens | James A. | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Turner | James | 1924 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Fall of stone |
| Marsh | James | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Fall of rib coal |
| Stevenson | James | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Gillies or Gillis | James | 1883 | Pictou County | Vale | Drawbar broke, crash of runaway slope rake |
| Russell | James | 1934 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Heart failure |
| Jacobs | James | 1900 | Cape Breton County | Reserve | Fall of coal while loading in room |
| Lameaux | James | 1916 | Pictou County | Albion | Struck by a runaway box |
| Nairn | James | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Burton | James | 1915 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Fall of stone |
| Morrison | James | 1966 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Naturel Causes |
| Christie | James | 1920 | Cape Breton County | Colonial No. 4, engine house | Caught in belt that operates hoist, lived 9 hrs |
| Gleason | James | 1892 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines (Princess?) | Fell down shaft while working there |
| Maloney | James | 1973 | Cumberland | River Hebert Coal Mine, formerly Cochran | Died of natural causes in mine |
| Allen | James | 1961 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Electrical |
| Devoe | James | 1924 | Cape Breton County | Florence | Killed by box on main deep |
| McNeil | James | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 7 | Fall of stone |
| Boates | James | 1941 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fall of coal |
| Napier | James | 1934 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 6 | Fall of stone |
| Reeves | James | 1872 | Pictou County | Acadia | Fall of coal |
| Walker | James | 1937 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Fall of stone |
| Flynn | James | 1917 | Pictou County | Greenwood | Fall of stone |
| Dunsmuir | James | 1924 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Fall of stone |
| Lawrence | James | 1935 | Pictou County | Albion | From injuries received a few months before |
| Conn | James | 1839 | Pictou County | Storr pit | Methane explosion; 1 of 2 killed |
| MacDonald | James | 1922 | Inverness | bootleg pit | Methane gas poisoning; 1 of 3 killed |
| Martel | James | 1958 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Construction |
| Hand | James | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Stewart | James | 1934 | Cape Breton County | Colonial No. 1 | Struck by coal boxes |
| Scully | James | 1924 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Carbon monoxide suffocation after explosion; 1 of 4 killed |
| Stewart | James | 1906 | Pictou County | Albion | Struck by a rake |
| Webb | James | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Petrie | James | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of roof |
| Mitchell | James | 1880 | Pictou County | Foord pit | Devastating methane explosion |
| Dumphy | James | 1908 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of coal from face |
| Riley | James | 1927 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Squeezed between boxes |
| Quigley | James | 1943 | Inverness | Inverness No. 3 | Crushed between engine drum and rope |
| Hamilton | James | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Shot blew through on slant containing water, partly driven between main slope, drowned; 1 of 2 killed |
| Lennon | James | 1880 | Pictou County | Foord pit | Devastating methane explosion |