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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dakens | James A. | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Lamb | Herbert | 1934 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Collided with turbine in power house |
| Moore | Arthur | 1911 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fell down shaft with a full box of coal |
| Poloski | Wentzell | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Roy | Benjamin | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Struck by piece of coal, died 3 days after |
| Vaast | Louis | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Adderly | Thomas Jr | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Buko | Andrew | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Frampton | Rod | 1939 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Run over by a loaded box |
| Hennessy | Abraham | 1935 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Shot blew back exploding methane and coal dust; 1 of 7 killed |
| Kaiser | Michael | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| MacKay | Martin | 1931 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Heart attack in act of getting on riding rake |
| McKenzie | Frederick A. | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| O'Brien | William | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Roach or Roche | James Sr. | 1932 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fall of coal |
| Sherider | Wentzell | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Tabbot | John | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Chisholm | James | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Francis | James | 1938 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Struck by cage lever on surface; died 3 days later |
| Grasesnack | C. G. | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Heyne | Victor | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Kayens | Felician | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Launey | Francis | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Lohez | Joseph | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| O'Brien | J. D. | 1939 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fall of coal from roof |
| Van Larkin | Dominic | 1924 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Carbon monoxide suffocation after explosion; 1 of 4 killed |
| Borden | Fred | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Cooke | H. A. | 1905 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fell when staging broke in shaft as they were sinking it |
| Hand | James | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Kayens | Joseph | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Murphy | John | 1929 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fall of coal |
| Pagella | Karal | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Stentley | William | 1914 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fall of coal |
| Winton | Robert | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Andrews | Archibald | 1926 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Struck by metal that fell off ascending cage or chuck falling down shaft |
| Borden | Joseph | 1922 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fall of stone and coal |
| Copan | John | 1947 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Caught by a haulage cable |
| Ferguson | Henry | 1930 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Struck by an empty trip |
| Jennings | Stanley | 1917 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Jammed between a box and a prop |
| Keddy | Wallace | 1942 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fall of stone |
| Power | William | 1920 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fall of coal |
| Stevenson | James | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Walsh | William | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Beaton | Alexander | 1935 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Shot blew back exploding methane and coal dust; 1 of 7 killed; asphixiation by carbon monoxide |
| Bortniak | Egnate | 1935 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Shot blew back exploding methane and coal dust; 1 of 7 killed |
| Clark | Richard | 1935 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Shot blew back exploding methane and coal dust; 1 of 7 killed |
| Cossman | Isadore | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Gallant | Frank | 1909 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Driving a full trip & killed by falling timber |
| Hanuse | Alfred | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Keith | Fred | 1919 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Overcome by gas, likely methane |