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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Young | Archie | 1904 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines Colliery; Nova Scotia Steel & Coal | Fall of coal |
| McLean | Stephen | 1904 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines Colliery; Nova Scotia Steel & Coal | Fell against pump |
| Bradley | Ephraim | 1904 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Metals gave heavy thump, broke timber and buried him under fall of coal. |
| Elbridge | Clifford | 1904 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall in chute, smothered by coal |
| Foster | Archie | 1904 | Cumberland | Aberdeen | Caught between box and chute; died on beaching bank |
| McNeil | Stephen | 1904 | Cape Breton County | Caledonia | Fall of roof coal |
| Nicholson | Norman | 1904 | Cape Breton County | Caledonia | Broken back, died 11 weeks later |
| Ryan | John | 1904 | Cape Breton County | Caledonia | Fall of stone from roof |
| McLeod | John | 1904 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Struck by motor |
| MacKinnon | Alex | 1905 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Bump |
| Walsh | William | 1905 | Inverness | Port Hood | Hit by boom sliding down slope while timbering |
| McKay | John w. | 1905 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines Colliery; Nova Scotia Steel & Coal | Killed by riding on a trip |
| Carey | William | 1905 | Cape Breton County | New Campbellton | Killed on main slope by the trip |
| Borden | Alex | 1905 | Cape Breton County | Caledonia | Fall of coal from face |
| Wilkes | F. | 1905 | Pictou County | Marsh | Powder explosion |
| MacLeod | unknown | 1905 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fall of stone from shaft wall being excavated as they were sinking the shaft |
| Chisholm | Norman | 1905 | Cape Breton County | Caledonia | Fall of coal from face |
| McInnis | Duncan | 1905 | Cape Breton County | Caledonia | Fall of stone from roof |
| Cooke | H. A. | 1905 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fell when staging broke in shaft as they were sinking it |
| Fitzgerald | Laurence | 1905 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of stone from roof |
| McMullin | Joseph | 1905 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal from face |
| Steele | Malcolm | 1905 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fatally injured from premature shot |
| McDonald | James T. | 1905 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 3 | Fall of coal from roof |
| Laffin | John J. | 1905 | Cape Breton County | Reserve | Fall of coal from face |
| McVarish | J. | 1905 | Cape Breton County | Reserve | Run over by box |
| Sellars | Nich | 1905 | Cape Breton County | Reserve | Fall of stone from roof |
| Perris or Paris | A. | 1905 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fell when staging broke in shaft as they were sinking it |
| Vickers | Edward | 1905 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines (Princess) | Fall of stone |
| Fraser | J. W. | 1905 | Pictou County | Marsh | rock fall |
| Cherrie | William | 1905 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | killed at the 2400-foot level |
| Hannah | Joseph | 1905 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Killed instantly by being run over by hopper |
| Scott | John W. | 1905 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Killed by trip on turnout |
| Henderson | William | 1905 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Fall of coal |
| Gardner | Joseph | 1906 | Cape Breton County | Reserve | Fall of stone from roof |
| Elkin | Fred | 1906 | Cumberland | Springhill | Killed by trolleys on surface |
| Laforte | Nelson | 1906 | Cape Breton County | Reserve | Struck by full box on slope |
| Davis | Ben | 1906 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Being buried by coal |
| Cassidy | William | 1906 | Inverness | Inverness | Struck by a rake on main slope |
| Morrison | John | 1906 | Cape Breton County | Reserve | Fatally injured between boxes on slope |
| Reddick | Robert, Sr. | 1906 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines (Princess) | Killed while mining, a shot blew down on him |
| Vickers | Alexander | 1906 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines (Princess) | Killed trying to jump on a full trip |
| Stewart | James | 1906 | Pictou County | Albion | Struck by a rake |
| LeBlanc | Edward | 1906 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines (Princess) | Struck by a moving box |
| Cameron | Alexander | 1906 | Pictou County | Vale | Run over by a hopper in pit yard |
| McNeil | John P. | 1906 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines (Princess) | Killed by runaway box grab slipping off rope |
| Ripley | Ira | 1906 | Cumberland | Joggins | Fall of top coal |
| Gunn | Stanley or David | 1906 | Pictou County | English Slopes (abandoned) | Methane exploded when boy lit match while playing near old slope opening; 1 of 2 killed |
| McLellan | Angus | 1906 | Inverness | Broad Cove | Killed by runaway box on main slope |
| McKinnon | Daniel | 1906 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of coal; died in hospital |
| McPherson | Malcolm | 1906 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of stone |