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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taylor | Daniel | 1914 | Pictou County | Albion | Hit by a train |
| Davidson | Robert | 1949 | Pictou County | Albion | Fall of coal |
| Hoegg | Hugh Brown | 1941 | Pictou County | Albion | Fall of coal from roof |
| Jenson or Jamieson | Alex | 1914 | Pictou County | Albion | Run over by a box |
| MacLean | John | 1902 | Pictou County | Albion | Jammed between rail cars on surface |
| Dunbar | John | 1904 | Pictou County | Albion | Run over by a rake |
| Gaskill | Thomas | 1924 | Pictou County | Albion | Fall of coal |
| Jewell | Charles | 1920 | Pictou County | Albion | Fall of coal |
| Purvis | James | 1902 | Pictou County | Albion | Fall of top coal |
| Baillie | D. | 1883 | Pictou County | Albion | Killed by a runaway rake |
| MacDonald | Jasper | 1926 | Pictou County | Albion | Struck by falling timber prop |
| Martin | Michael | 1901 | Pictou County | Albion | Whirled around a shaft |
| Partner | Herbert | 1942 | Pictou County | Albion | Crushed between boxes |
| Robinson | Robert | 1903 | Pictou County | Albion | Fell under rail car which passed over him |
| Colburn | William | 1910 | Pictou County | Albion | Fall of coal |
| Flemming | Hugh R | 1923 | Pictou County | Albion | Fall of stone |
| Leonard | Elmer | 1910 | Pictou County | Albion | Fall of coal |
| MacKenzie | William | 1903 | Pictou County | Albion | Jumped from moving train in mine yard |
| Martin | Roderick | 1917 | Pictou County | Albion | Suffocated in his draeger machine due to carbonic acid leak |
| Small | John D. | 1900 | Pictou County | Albion | Fall of coal |
| Stewart | James | 1906 | Pictou County | Albion | Struck by a rake |
| Benoit | Rodham | 1917 | Pictou County | Albion | Asphyxiated by methane |
| Bowran | George | 1923 | Pictou County | Albion | Caught and crushed by screening machinery |
| Cullen | John Sr. | 1934 | Pictou County | Albion | Fall of coal |
| MacKenzie | Frank | 1909 | Pictou County | Albion | Killed on balance by runaway box |
| McLellan | James | 1884 | Pictou County | Albion | Struck by a rake |
| Muir | Gilbert | 1924 | Pictou County | Albion | Struck by a trip of coal boxes |
| Barclay | J. W. R. | 1907 | Pictou County | Albion | Killed on main slope by runaway box |
| MacKenzie | H. M. | 1911 | Pictou County | Albion | Fall of coal at the face |
| MacLeod | Wellington | 1921 | Pictou County | Albion | Suffocated by methane under coal fall |
| Mason | Stanley | 1927 | Pictou County | Albion | Fall of coal |
| Connell | Frank | 1914 | Pictou County | Albion | Fall of coal |
| Brown | Leo | 1919 | Pictou County | Albion | Struck by a cage in a balance |
| Cameron | John W. | 1946 | Pictou County | Albion | Struck by coal trip on main slope |
| Downs | William B. | 1910 | Pictou County | Albion | Scalded or burned, causes unknown; a machinist making repairs |
| Laderie | Jules | 1924 | Pictou County | Albion | Struck down by a runaway box |
| MacKenzie | Hugh | 1918 | Pictou County | Albion | Crushed by cars |
| Doyle | Edward | 1935 | Pictou County | Albion | Fall of rock |
| Fraser | John E. | 1921 | Pictou County | Albion | Fall of coal |
| Isnor | Hubert | 1921 | Pictou County | Albion | Fall of coal |
| Roy | John H. | 1904 | Pictou County | Albion | Killed instantly in a fall |
| Conway | Isaac | 1914 | Pictou County | Albion | Fall of top coal |
| Heighton | Dan | 1927 | Pictou County | Albion | Fall of coal |
| McKay | Donald | 1898 | Pictou County | Albion | Fall from roof of working face |
| Williamson | Samuel | 1899 | Pictou County | Albion | Chainrunner, struck in neck by snapped chain |
| Cassidy | Charles | 1941 | Pictou County | Albion | Driver, injured on his job, died after; "died of shock" |
| Foster | Alex | 1894 | Pictou County | Albion | Run over by a coal trip |
| Jackson | Aubrey | 1920 | Pictou County | Albion | Run over by an empty box |
| Baudoux | John maybe George | 1930 | Pictou County | Albion (Purvis slope) | Riding an empty trip that derailed; killed by falling timbers and stone |
| Stewart | Alexander | 1918 | Pictou County | Albion (Purvis slope) | Coal box fell to the ground |