Coal Mining Fatalities
This database contains 2498 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pettigrew | Charles | 1924 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall of stone |
| Czanoli or Czalonic | John | 1931 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall of stone |
| Goode | Allen H. | 1952 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Killed by haulage |
| Fear | John L. | 1954 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Bump; 1 of 5 killed |
| Corkum | Clyde | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| Hyatt | Warren | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| McLeod | Varley | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| Reid | Lester | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| White | Carl | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| Turner | George | 1886 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall of top coal |
| Casey | Archibald | 1921 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Struck by rake of coal |
| Sweeney | John W. | 1924 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall of stone |
| Vance | Alexander | 1931 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Squeezed between two boxes |
| Hunter | Wesley | 1954 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Bump; 1 of 5 killed |
| Crowe | Hance | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| Jackson | John | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| McLeod | Robert | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| Reynolds | Wesley | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| White | Albert | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| Bradley | Ephraim | 1904 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Metals gave heavy thump, broke timber and buried him under fall of coal. |
| McDonald | James E. | 1921 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Killed crossing over haulage rope in motion, caught by boxes |
| Boss | Asa G. | 1925 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Killed by trip of boxes; 1 of 2 killed |
| Dykens | Elmer W. or Elmmar | 1932 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall of stone |
| Nodwell | Harry A. | 1941 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall of stone |
| Forrest | William | 1944 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall of stone |
| Lorimer | Harold | 1954 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Bump; 1 of 5 killed |
| Embree | Harold | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| Jewkes | William | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| McLeod | Charles | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| Rolfe | Ernest | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| Elbridge | Clifford | 1904 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall in chute, smothered by coal |
| LeBlanc | Tillman | 1909 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Haulage rope injury |
| Mitchell | William James | 1925 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Killed by trip of boxes; 1 of 2 killed |
| Clarke | Walter | 1942 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Struck by box |
| Porter | Thomas D. | 1945 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Struck by rake |
| Embree | Harry | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| LeBlanc | Abbey | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| McLeod | Edward | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| Rose | Charles | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| McNeil | Henry | 1876 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | cause not recorded |
| May | George | 1887 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fatally hurt |
| Lowther | William | 1900 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Leg broken in fall of stone at working face |
| Gillespie | David | 1916 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Struck by cage |
| Jones | Hezekiah | 1922 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall of stone and coal from face |
| Brown | George D. | 1926 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall of stone |
| Carter | Ralston | 1935 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Struck by full car on back slope |
| Weatherbee | Lorne A. | 1942 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Struck by trip |
| Allen | Fidele | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| Legere | Alfred | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| McLeod | Frank | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |