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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kerr | Ross | 1983 | Cape Breton County | Prince | Electrocuted |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Hill | Alexander | 1923 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Caught by flywheel in starting haulage engine |
| Turner | James | 1924 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Fall of stone |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| McGill | James | 1918 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Runaway car |
| MacDonald | William B. | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Broken cable on riding rake; 1 of 21 killed |
| Dunsmuir | James | 1924 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Fall of stone |
| Taylor | John | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Broken cable on riding rake; 1 of 21 killed |
| Brown | David | 1939 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Struck by runaway box |
| Gaskill | Samuel | 1924 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Fall of stone |
| McDonad | Alex | 1928 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Fall of coal |
| McMullin | Lauchlin | 1936 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Fell off trip and under box |
| iafalli | Carmen | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Broken cable on riding rake; 1 of 21 killed |
| Large | William | 1942 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Fall of stone |
| Lamond | Daniel | 1946 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Haulage |
| Handley | Alexander | 1964 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Haulage |
| Waugh | Michael | 1923 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Caught in worm-gear of coal conveyor |
| McPhee | Angus | 1926 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Squeezed between longwall machine and face |
| Riley | James | 1927 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Squeezed between boxes |
| Aspinall | James | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Broken cable on riding rake; 1 of 21 killed |
| MacDougall | Alexander | 1964 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Haulage |
| Wasakalius | Ant. | 1916 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Killed by runaway box |
| Hamilton | Thomas | 1931 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Fall of stone |
| Dawe | Edward | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Broken cable on riding rake; 1 of 21 killed |
| McGregor | Murdock | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Broken cable on riding rake; 1 of 21 killed |
| Wilkie | William | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Broken cable on riding rake; 1 of 21 killed |
| McIntyre | Arthur | 1964 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Fall of stone |
| Forrest | Stanley | 1967 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Natural Causes |
| Bushar | Patrick | 1912 | 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 |
| 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 |