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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MacLean | Alexander | 1980 | Cape Breton County | Prince | Crushed by bucket against wall of shaft |
| McKinnon | Rod | 1912 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Fall of stone |
| Keigan | Patrick | 1928 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Fall of stone |
| McIntyre | Alex | 1929 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Struck by cage |
| Burkhart | Amos | 1931 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Fall of coal |
| Gunn | Dan | 1933 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Fall of stone |
| Dixon | Richard | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Broken cable on riding rake; 1 of 21 killed |
| Campbell | Thomas | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Broken cable on riding rake; 1 of 21 killed |
| Head | George | 1955 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Fall of stone |
| Brown | Albert | 1960 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Fall of stone |
| Paterson | William | 1912 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Fall of coal |
| Grycorn | John | 1933 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Fall of stone |
| Russell | James | 1934 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Heart failure |
| McPhee | Malcolm | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Broken cable on riding rake; 1 of 21 killed |
| Luffman | William | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Broken cable on riding rake; 1 of 21 killed |
| Collins | William | 1943 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Crushed under trip |
| Shaw | Thomas | 1958 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Haulage |
| MacKinnon | Daniel | 1964 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Fall of stone |
| Orell | Joseph | 1931 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Fall of stone |
| Gallop | Abe | 1934 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Fall of stone |
| Eveley | Walter | 1937 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Struck by runaway trip; 1 of 3 killed |
| MacDonald | William J. | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Broken cable on riding rake; 1 of 21 killed |
| MacLeod | Melvin | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Broken cable on riding rake; 1 of 21 killed |
| Halliday | Charles | 1945 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Struck by rake |
| MacDonald | Harold | 1962 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Haulage |
| McInnis | Michael | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Run over by trip |
| Burgoyne | Nelson | 1937 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Struck by runaway trip; 1 of 3 killed |
| Rollins | John | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Broken cable on riding rake; 1 of 21 killed |
| Campbell | John | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Broken cable on riding rake; 1 of 21 killed |
| Cann | William | 1942 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Struck by trip |
| Keigan | Charles | 1962 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Haulage |
| Patey | Robert | 1937 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Struck by runaway trip; 1 of 3 killed |
| Morrison | Richard | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Broken cable on riding rake; 1 of 21 killed |
| Boyd | Clarence | 1959 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Fall of stone |
| Major | Joseph | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Broken cable on riding rake; 1 of 21 killed |
| Dickson | John | 1940 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Fall of stone |
| Brown | George | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Broken cable on riding rake; 1 of 21 killed |
| Hill | Alexander | 1923 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Caught by flywheel in starting haulage engine |
| Turner | James | 1924 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Fall of stone |
| McDonald | Colin | 1936 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Struck by runaway box |
| Morrison | Joseph | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Broken cable on riding rake; 1 of 21 killed |
| Brown | Daniel | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Broken cable on riding rake; 1 of 21 killed |
| MacIntyre | Dan | 1941 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Undetermined |
| Peddle | Arthur | 1946 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Haulage |
| McLean | Wilmont | 1959 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Haulage |
| McGill | James | 1918 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Runaway car |
| Michaelites | Joseph | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Run over by trip |
| McPhee | Donald | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Broken cable on riding rake; 1 of 21 killed |
| Boutilier | Charles Jr. | 1956 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Haulage |
| Reashor | Maurice | 1968 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Coronary heart attack |