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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| McMasters | Earl J. | 1969 | Cumberland | Springhill, Syndicate Mine or Springhill No. 1 | Struck by empty trip |
| McDonald | Allan | 1922 | Cumberland | No.9 ? (may be Glace Bay) | Fall of stone |
| Fraser | John Clarence | 1938 | Inverness | Port Hood or Henderson | Fall of stone |
| Beaton | Malcolm | 1908 | Inverness | Port Hood | Explosion on No. 3 level south; 1 of 10 killed |
| McKenzie | William | 1908 | Inverness | Port Hood | Explosion on No. 3 level south; 1 of 10 killed |
| Gillis | Lauchlin | 1908 | Inverness | Port Hood | Explosion on No. 3 level south; 1 of 10 killed |
| Shea | James | 1867 | Inverness | Port Hood | Crushed by machinery |
| McDonald | A. R. | 1908 | Inverness | Port Hood | Explosion on No. 3 level south; 1 of 10 killed |
| Campbell | John | 1908 | Inverness | Port Hood | Explosion on No. 3 level south; 1 of 10 killed |
| McDonald | D. R. | 1908 | Inverness | Port Hood | Explosion on No. 3 level south; 1 of 10 killed |
| Walsh | William | 1905 | Inverness | Port Hood | Hit by boom sliding down slope while timbering |
| Watts | Alexander | 1878 | Inverness | Port Hood | Explosion of steam boiler; 1 of 2 killed |
| Ladime | (Bulgarian) Unknown | 1908 | Inverness | Port Hood | Explosion on No. 3 level south; 1 of 10 killed |
| Lamby | (Bulgarian) Unknown | 1908 | Inverness | Port Hood | Explosion on No. 3 level south; 1 of 10 killed |
| Lambyi | (Bulgarian) Unknown | 1908 | Inverness | Port Hood | Explosion on No. 3 level south; 1 of 10 killed |
| Merritt | John | 1903 | Inverness | Port Hood | Riding trip coupling broke hurling boxes against roof |
| Powelle | (Bulgarian) Unknown | 1908 | Inverness | Port Hood | Explosion on No. 3 level south; 1 of 10 killed |
| Gillies | Angus | 1878 | Inverness | Port Hood | Explosion of steam boiler; 1 of 2 killed |
| McIsaac | Daniel A. or Danile | 1936 | Inverness | Port Hood | Killed by file shot |
| Cameron | J.J. | 1903 | Inverness | Mabou | Caught by box on slope |
| Quigley | Thomas | 1906 | Inverness | Mabou | Jammed between box and pillar |
| McDonald | Saunders | 1940 | Inverness | inverness No. 4 | Struck by runaway box |
| Quigley | James | 1943 | Inverness | Inverness No. 3 | Crushed between engine drum and rope |
| MacKinnon | Angus | 1945 | Inverness | Inverness No. 3 | Fall of stone |
| McKinnon | Daniel S. | 1945 | Inverness | Inverness No. 3 | Fall of stone |
| MacDougall | Hugh G. or Hugh C. | 1934 | Inverness | Inverness No. 1 | Fall of coal |
| Cameron | Archie | 1927 | Inverness | Inverness No. 1 | Fall of coal |
| Chisholm | William | 1925 | Inverness | Inverness No. 1 | Killed by runaway box |
| Copan | Louis | 1923 | Inverness | Inverness No. 1 | Killed by trip of mine cars |
| McDonald or MacDonald | Neil | 1923 | Inverness | Inverness No. 1 | Struck head against roof or boom |
| Dixon | Alex | 1943 | Inverness | Inverness No. 1 | Fall of stone |
| McDonnell | Dan | 1927 | Inverness | Inverness No. 1 | Fall of coal |
| McNeil | John | 1927 | Inverness | Inverness No. 1 | Crushed by full boxes of coal |
| LeBlanc | Joseph | 1923 | Inverness | Inverness No. 1 | Found dead in boiler room; may have fallen |
| McDougall | Daniel | 1924 | Inverness | Inverness No. 1 | Fall of stone; 1 of 4 killed |
| McIsaac | Neil | 1924 | Inverness | Inverness No. 1 | Fall of stone; 1 of 4 killed |
| McIsaac | Archibald A. | 1924 | Inverness | Inverness No. 1 | Fall of stone; 1 of 4 killed |
| McIsaac | Daniel C. | 1924 | Inverness | Inverness No. 1 | Fall of stone; 1 of 4 killed |
| MacDougall | Peter | 1934 | Inverness | Inverness No. 1 | Gas explosion |
| Gillis | Dan A. | 1907 | Inverness | Inverness | Fatally injured riding in empty trip, rope broke |
| McIsaac | Dougald | 1939 | Inverness | Inverness | Jammed; died 2 days later |
| Beaumeister | Otto | 1914 | Inverness | Inverness | Fall of coal |
| Gillis | Dan A. | 1908 | Inverness | Inverness | Fall of coal and rock in pillars |
| Ross | Angus | 1913 | Inverness | Inverness | Stepped in front of moving balance box |
| MacLean | Duncan | 1907 | Inverness | Inverness | See D.A. McLean, 1908, possibly a duplicate |
| McKinnon | Dan | 1937 | Inverness | Inverness | Struck by runaway box |
| Gillis | Simon D. | 1920 | Inverness | Inverness | Fall of rock |
| Jones | Harry | 1908 | Inverness | Inverness | Fall of stone and coal, No 7 balance, No 5 E level |
| Cassidy | William | 1906 | Inverness | Inverness | Struck by a rake on main slope |
| Keating | Edward | 1914 | Inverness | Inverness | Cage struck timber, knocking roof down |