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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reid | John N. | 1923 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 6 | Accidental dynamite explosion |
| Geuro | Petro | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 6 | Struck by box |
| McLeod | Malcolm | 1918 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 6 | Fall of stone and till |
| Grant | William | 1907 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 6 | Fall of stone |
| McDonald | C.R. | 1907 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 6 | Struck by empty trip |
| Napier | James | 1934 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 6 | Fall of stone |
| Holley | Edward | 1909 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 6 | Driving when box derailed, knocked out prop, roof fell, killing him |
| Steele | Hugh | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 6 | By full trip |
| Robertson | E. | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 6 | Oiler, clothes caught in revolving shaft (on surface) |
| McPherson | Neil | 1908 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 6 | Killed by runaway boxes |
| Feit | Frank | 1926 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 6 | Fall of stone |
| Nicholson | D.J. | 1908 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 6 | Leg crushed between full box and empty trip, died next day |
| Ireland | Dan | 1906 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 6 | Struck by box |
| Snow | William | 1908 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 6 | Fall of stone |
| Andrews | Wilfred | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 6 | Fall of stone |
| Boutilier | Seth | 1916 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 6 | Trip ran over him, died 7 days later |
| Campbell | James | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 7 | Fall of stone |
| Nazoff | Castro | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 7 | Jammed between box and roof |
| Gilhomes | R. D. | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 7 | Run over by trip of cars |
| McNeil | James | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 7 | Fall of stone |
| Dye | Charles | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 7 | Killed by cars on surface, in colliery yard |
| McPherson | D. | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 7 | Run over by trip of cars |
| Degaust | Alex | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 7 | Fall of stone |
| Cronius | Stephen | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 7 | Fall of roof |
| Cook | James I | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 7 | Fall of stone |
| Ghyseis | August | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 7 | Fall of stone at face |
| Neary | Andrew | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 7 | Fell under moving car |
| McDonald | Dan | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 8 | Fell over trestle |
| Morrison | William | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 8 | Struck by box |
| Morgan | Frank | 1908 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 8 | Killed by live wire |
| Campbell | Rod | 1918 | Cape Breton County | Dominon No. 11 | Fall of stone |
| O'Handley | John | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominon No. 11 | Killed between box and roof |
| McInnes | Michael | 1926 | Cape Breton County | Dominon No. 11 | Trip of boxes left rails |
| Cyr | Joseph | 1937 | Pictou County | Drummond No. 5 (Intercolonial No. 5) | Fall of coal |
| Graham | Daniel | 1925 | Pictou County | Drummond No. 5 (Intercolonial No. 5) | Fall of stone |
| Hamilton | James Y. | 1928 | Pictou County | Drummond No. 5 (Intercolonial No. 5) | Fell head first while timbering the roof when staging collaped under fall of heavy coal lump |
| Horne | Wilfred | 1942 | Pictou County | Drummond No. 5 (Intercolonial No. 5) | Fall of stone |
| Muir | Robert | 1921 | Pictou County | Drummond No. 5 (Intercolonial No. 5) | Fall of stone |
| Hale | Milledge | 1938 | Pictou County | Drummond No. 5 (Intercolonial No. 5) | Struck by falling timber |
| Cyr | William | 1920 | Pictou County | Drummond No. 5 (Intercolonial No. 5) | Run over by an empty box |
| MacKenzie | Rod J. | 1948 | Pictou County | Drummond (Intercolonial) No. 2 Scott slope | Killed in haulage |
| Wilson | George | 1935 | Pictou County | Drummond (Intercolonial) No. 2 Scott slope | Fall of coal |
| Saunders | Fred | 1944 | Pictou County | Drummond (Intercolonial) No. 2 Scott slope | Fall of coal |
| Hallam | Ernest | 1959 | Pictou County | Drummond (Intercolonial) No. 2 Scott slope | Fall of coal |
| Brown | Murdock | 1934 | Pictou County | Drummond (Intercolonial) No. 2 Scott slope | Struck on head when taking coal to chute |
| Penny | Thomas | 1948 | Pictou County | Drummond (Intercolonial) No. 4 slope | Fall of stone |
| Campbell | David | 1872 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Methane explosion |
| Fraser | Angus | 1934 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Struck by a rake on the slope |
| Little | Ernest | 1907 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Smothered by slack coal in boiler shed chute |
| MacPherson | R. | 1869 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Crushed by coal tubs |