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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baxter | James | 1913 | Pictou County | Acadia | Fall of roof |
| Geuro | Petro | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 6 | Struck by box |
| Campbell | James | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 7 | Fall of stone |
| Nazoff | Castro | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 7 | Jammed between box and roof |
| Riciselts | Vincent | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Scotia (possibly Cumberland Co.) | Fall of stone |
| McDonald | Dan | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 8 | Fell over trestle |
| Morrison | William | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 8 | Struck by box |
| McLeod | D.H. | 1913 | Inverness | Inverness | Struck by fall of frozen briquettes |
| Bozzan | Jacob | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 9 | Fall of stone |
| Campbell | David | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Broughton | Struck by runaway box |
| McInnis | Michael | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Run over by trip |
| Curry | Michael | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of stone |
| Zyales | Stainslaw | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 15 | Fall of stone |
| Hayes | Norman | 1913 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Struck by hoisting cage on balance |
| Batchford | David | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of stone |
| Penill | Arthur | 1913 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fell down main shaft |
| Bond | Alexander | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Sydney No. 3 (Florence) | Fall of coal |
| McPhee | David | 1913 | Cumberland | Chignecto | cause not recorded |
| Riciselts | Vincent | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Scotia (possibly Cumberland Co.) | Fall of stone |
| Hurley | William | 1913 | Cumberland | Lawson | Tube of boiler burst |
| Machuniski | Michael | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Explosion of Powder |
| Ricleslts | Vincent | 1913 | Cumberland | Scotia (possibly Cape Breton County) | Fall of stone |
| McDonald | John | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Fall of stone |
| Burbine | John | 1913 | Cumberland | Joggins | Runaway boxes |
| Collogani | Redolph | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Jammed between boxes |
| Ross | Angus | 1913 | Inverness | Inverness | Stepped in front of moving balance box |
| McMullin | Andrew | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 13 | Fall of stone at face |
| Andreggo | Alexander | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 14 | Struck by runaway box |
| Gillespie | William | 1913 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Caught between box at 4700 bottom |
| Graham | Alex | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 15 | Fall of stone |
| Clarke or Clark | Ernest | 1913 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Fell off box |
| McLean | Edward | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 15 | Fall of stone |
| Mini | Francisco | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 15 | Electric wire |
| McDonald | Dan | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| Sennio | Antonio | 1914 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Died in Halifax in 1914 |
| Maquire | Bernard | 1914 | Pictou County | Vale | Struck by an empty trip that derailed |
| McNeil | John M. | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal at face |
| DeCoste | Bernard | 1914 | Inverness | Inverness | Fall of coal |
| Tracey | William | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Killed by full trip |
| Ryan | Frank | 1914 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Boiler explosion in surface plant; 1 of 7 killed |
| Holmes | Angus | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 22 | Fell, striking head on rail |
| Cullen or Cullins | David | 1914 | Pictou County | McGregor | Suffocation in mine |
| Baldwin | Philip | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Fall of stone |
| Brown | James | 1914 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Carbon monoxide after devastating explosion; 1 of 2 killed |
| Murphy | John R. | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Fall of stone at face |
| Steele | Hugh | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 6 | By full trip |
| MacKenzie | Lawrence | 1914 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Boiler explosion in surface plant; 1 of 7 killed |
| Cook | James I | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 7 | Fall of stone |
| Ghyseis | August | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 7 | Fall of stone at face |
| Neary | Andrew | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 7 | Fell under moving car |