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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| McDougall | Allan | 1921 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Fall of stone |
| Roach | Dan | 1926 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Fall of stone |
| Chiasson | Joseph R. | 1930 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Fall of stone |
| Martin | Isadore | 1934 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Fall of stone |
| Kitely | George | 1909 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Fall of stone |
| Ward | Fred | 1921 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Fall of stone, died next day |
| McLeod | Dan | 1934 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Fall of stone |
| O'Connor | John | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Fall of stone at longwall face |
| McPherson | Moses | 1918 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Fall of stone |
| Martin | John | 1935 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Fall of stone |
| Bert | Alphonse | 1940 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Fall of stone from roof |
| Lebonis | Andre | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Fall of stone |
| Treige | John | 1945 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 11 | Struck by level trip |
| Dean | Thomas | 1929 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 11 | Fall of stone |
| Patten | John | 1941 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 11 | Runaway trip |
| Turner | David | 1929 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 11 | Squeezed between rib and box |
| Smith | Josiah | 1924 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 11 | Runaway mine car |
| Clarke | John | 1929 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 11 | Fall of stone |
| Conn | Leo | 1932 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 11 | Fall of stone |
| Angelo | Michael | 1932 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 11 | Fall of stone |
| Lewis | Vincent | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 11 | Caught between tram and prop |
| Murrell | Arthur | 1927 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 11 | Fall of stone |
| McDonald | David | 1937 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 11 | Struck by trip |
| McDonald | Kenneth | 1920 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 11 | Crushed between box and pillar |
| Harris | John | 1939 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 11 | Fall of stone |
| Peters | William | 1918 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 11 | Killed by main drive-chain on bank, on surface |
| Walker | George | 1929 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 11 | Fall of stone |
| Brathwaite | Cyril | 1931 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 11 | Fall of stone |
| Edwards | George | 1921 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 11 | Fall of stone from oof |
| McMullin | Justin | 1936 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 11 | Run over by trip |
| Farrell | Gregor | 1950 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 11 | Haulage |
| Lee | Charles | 1928 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 11 | Fall of coal |
| McAskill | Malcolm | 1943 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 11 | Fall of stone |
| McNeil | Neil | 1933 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 11 | Burned by electricity |
| Rushton | Nelson W. | 1927 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 11 | Fall of stone |
| Lawless | Marcel | 1935 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 11 | Found on haulage |
| McDonald | Allan | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Fall of roof |
| McLennan | J. A. | 1916 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Caught by cage |
| Boone | Isaac | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |
| Durham | Thomas | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |
| McKay | John D. | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |
| Parsons | William | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |
| McDonald | Angus V. | 1935 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Struck by trip |
| Butt | George | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |
| Fahey | Timothy | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |
| McKenzie | John H. | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Rescue work after explosion |
| Peach | William J. | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |
| Boutilier | Arthur | 1925 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Fall of stone |
| McCumiskey | Owen | 1930 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Struck by trip |
| Woodland | Herbert | 1942 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Struck by trip |