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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MacDonald | Ronald | 1880 | Pictou County | Foord pit | Devastating methane explosion |
| McNaughton | John | 1880 | Pictou County | Foord pit | Devastating methane explosion |
| MacDonald | John | 1880 | Pictou County | Foord pit | Devastating methane explosion |
| MacKinnon | Donald | 1873 | Pictou County | Foord pit | Fall of coal |
| McGilchrist or Gilgrist | John | 1866 | Pictou County | Foster pit | Clothing caught in hoist winding drum |
| Campbell | James | 1958 | Cape Breton County | Four Star | Electrical |
| Jenkins | Robert | 1960 | Cape Breton County | Four Star | Surface haulage |
| Blois | John | 1959 | Cape Breton County | Four Star | Fall of stone |
| MacPhee | Vernon Michael | 1967 | Cape Breton County | Four Star | Machinery: Caught in capstan |
| O'Toole | Terrance | 1943 | Cape Breton County | Franklin | Crushed between box and timber |
| Vickers | Leonard | 1956 | Cape Breton County | Franklin | Fall of stone |
| Young | Alexander | 1893 | Cape Breton County | Gowrie | Fall of roof coal, died 6 days later |
| Currie | Angus | 1868 | Cape Breton County | Gowrie | Fall of coal |
| Andrews | William | 1910 | Cape Breton County | Gowrie | Fall of coal |
| McCosh | Alex | 1890 | Cape Breton County | Gowrie | Fall of stone from roof |
| McGrath | James | 1910 | Cape Breton County | Gowrie | Runaway box, accidental death |
| Carmichael | Charles | 1872 | Cape Breton County | Gowrie | Crushed by machinery |
| McLean | Angus | 1872 | Cape Breton County | Gowrie | Run over by wagon |
| McLean | Hector | 1895 | Cape Breton County | Gowrie | Fell under coal car on surface railroad |
| Fergusson | John | 1887 | Cape Breton County | Gowrie | Fall of roof coal |
| Andrews | William | 1873 | Cape Breton County | Gowrie | Fall of coal |
| McKinnon | Murdock | 1893 | Cape Breton County | Gowrie | Fall of stone from roof |
| Desmond | Frank | 1922 | Cape Breton County | Greener | Empty box passed over him, died 28 days later in hospital |
| Tremblett | Phillip | 1949 | Cape Breton County | Greener | Haulage |
| Morrison | John | 1947 | Cape Breton County | Greener | Fall of roof |
| Livingstone | Fred C. | 1957 | Pictou County | Greenwood No. 2 | Hit by a runaway coal box |
| Wooden | John | 1918 | Pictou County | Greenwood | roof fall |
| Flynn | James | 1917 | Pictou County | Greenwood | Fall of stone |
| Finlay | Bart | 1902 | Cape Breton County | Harbour Seam | Fall of stone from roof |
| McKinnon | Hector | 1896 | Cape Breton County | Hub | Fall of coal from pillar |
| Slanwhite | M. | 1906 | Cape Breton County | Hub | Fall of stone |
| Davidson | John | 1895 | Cape Breton County | Hub | Fell from stage down shaft; 1 of 2 killed |
| Gracy | Bosel | 1895 | Cape Breton County | Hub | Fell from stage down shaft; 1 of 2 killed |
| McDonald | Dan | 1908 | Cape Breton County | Hub | Fatal injury: pelvis broken in fall of stone |
| Ross | James | 1941 | Cape Breton County | Indian Cove Coal Company | Explosion; 1 of 2 killed |
| Eveleigh | G. Hector William | 1941 | Cape Breton County | Indian Cove Coal Company | Explosion; 1 of 2 killed |
| Downie | John | 1873 | Cape Breton County | International | Run over by train |
| McLean | Joseph | 1873 | Cape Breton County | International | Crushed by train |
| McCormick | Vin | 1893 | Cape Breton County | International | Fall of roof coal at face; also recorded as 1894 |
| McKinnon | Mick | 1904 | Cape Breton County | International | Fall of stone from roof |
| Neville | john | 1873 | Cape Breton County | International | Crushed by train |
| McVicar | Alexander | 1904 | Cape Breton County | International | Fall of coal from face |
| Luckman | John | 1870 | Cape Breton County | International | Crushed by cage |
| Fortune | James | 1894 | Cape Breton County | International | Full trip on deep road |
| McIntyre | Donald | 1901 | Cape Breton County | International | Caught by runaway coal box from bank on surface |
| Gouthro | Simon | 1907 | Cape Breton County | International | Fell down water shaft |
| Leonard | Alfred | 1900 | Cape Breton County | International | Killed getting in cage at pit bottom |
| Rocker | R. | 1906 | Cape Breton County | International | Fall of stone from roof |
| McInnis | John | 1908 | Cape Breton County | International | Fall of stone |
| MacKeigan | John | 1922 | Cape Breton County | Jubilee, River Hebert | Fall of roof stone in level, died 21 days later |