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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corbett | Angus | 1936 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Caught in conveyor belt |
| McDonald | John | 1943 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| Murray | Garfield | 1939 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of coal |
| Forris | Stephen | 1943 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| Thorne | Wesley | 1959 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Haulage |
| Paul | George | 1937 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of coal |
| White | Clarence | 1946 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Haulage |
| McDonald | Donald | 1952 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| Hall | Edward | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Killed by trip |
| Thistle | Silas | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| Dewan | James | 1944 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Struck by trip |
| Cathcart | Lionel | 1954 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Haulage, surface |
| Doucett | Patrick | 1937 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Hit by trip |
| McDonald | John | 1939 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| Boone | John | 1942 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Struck by trip; 1 of 2 killed |
| Whalen | Emmanuel | 1943 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Tally boy; Crushed between box and loader (likely on surface) |
| Gillis | Henry | 1943 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Crushed between trip and rubbing rail |
| Oliver | William | 1944 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Struck by trip |
| Ransome | James H. | 1949 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| Roach | John | 1955 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| Fitzner | John | 1927 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| Kavanaugh | Michael | 1933 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Overcome by gas |
| Phalen | Louis | 1942 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Struck by trip; 1 of 2 killed |
| Rockett | Fred | 1959 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Haulage |
| Crawford | Patrick | 1912 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fell under fuel box |
| Campbell | John | 1926 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Trip of boxes |
| Chiasson | Leo | 1933 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Struck by a trip |
| Jeffrey | Leonard | 1946 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Explosives |
| MacDonald | John Robert | 1958 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| Bannon | Henry | 1934 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Struck by trip |
| McDonald | Joseph | 1942 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| Holm | William | 1943 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| Aucoin | William Joseph | 1946 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of roof |
| MacLeod | William | 1959 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| Jones | Charles | 1929 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone, died 6-7 weeks later |
| Wilson | Henry J. | 1934 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Struck on head by stone |
| Milo | Louis | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Killed by runaway box |
| Walczak | Wallace | 1958 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Haulage |
| Boutilier | John | 1922 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone caused by runaway boxes |
| Balzoni | Pietro | 1934 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| Young | Walter | 1943 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| MacMillan | Angus R. | 1951 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Haulage |
| Cameron | Angus | 1957 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| Campbell | Joseph | 1961 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Mechanical |
| Hamilton | James | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Shot blew through on slant containing water, partly driven between main slope, drowned; 1 of 2 killed |
| McDonald | Mark | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of roof |
| Kendell | William | 1929 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| McIsaac | Angus | 1931 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| Pearson | Thomas Edgar | 1936 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Leg broken by trip, died 5 days later in hospital |
| Matlock | John | 1937 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |