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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown | James | 1914 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Carbon monoxide after devastating explosion; 1 of 2 killed |
| McNeil | John M. | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal at face |
| Tracey | William | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Killed by full trip |
| Holmes | Angus | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 22 | Fell, striking head on rail |
| Porter | James | 1914 | Cumberland | Black Diamond | Thawing Samsonite (possibly a powder brand) |
| Baldwin | Philip | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Fall of stone |
| Murphy | John R. | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Fall of stone at face |
| Ryan | Frank | 1914 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Boiler explosion in surface plant; 1 of 7 killed |
| Steele | Hugh | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 6 | By full trip |
| Betts | William | 1914 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Boiler explosion in surface plant; 1 of 7 killed |
| 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 |
| Stentley | William | 1914 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fall of coal |
| Blackwood | Thomas | 1914 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Carbon monoxide after devastating explosion; 1 of 2 killed |
| Neary | Andrew | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 7 | Fell under moving car |
| Frye | John | 1914 | Pictou County | Albion | Riding a coal trip that derailed |
| Lamond | James | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Sydney No. 3 (Florence) | Caught between box and prop |
| Keating | Edward | 1914 | Inverness | Inverness | Cage struck timber, knocking roof down |
| Jamieson | Alexander | 1914 | Pictou County | Albion | Killed by cage |
| Hacquoil | Alexander | 1914 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fatal injuries |
| Jenson or Jamieson | Alex | 1914 | Pictou County | Albion | Run over by a box |
| Sennio | Antonio | 1914 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Died in Halifax in 1914 |
| Connell | Frank | 1914 | Pictou County | Albion | Fall of coal |
| Conway | Isaac | 1914 | Pictou County | Albion | Fall of top coal |
| Bond | Philip | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of stone |
| White | Thomas | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Sydney No. 4 (Scotia) | Fall of stone |
| Beaumeister | Otto | 1914 | Inverness | Inverness | Fall of coal |
| Boviada | Demetris | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Crushed between boxes |
| Chiasson | Pat | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Killed by trip |
| MacMillan | Daniel L | 1914 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Boiler explosion in surface plant; 1 of 7 killed |
| McDonald | Murdock A. | 1914 or 1915 | Inverness | Inverness | Fell under moving coal boxes while getting on full rake |
| Casey | Percy A. | 1914 or 1915 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Killed by runaway boxes; 1 of 2 killed |
| Caulfield or Canfield | Peter | 1914 or 1915 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Killed by runaway boxes; 1 of 2 killed |
| Brown | Thomas | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of stone |
| Nevat | Andrew | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Fall of roof |
| McDonald | H. | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Queen | Boilermaker killed by fan on surface |
| Milo | Louis | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Killed by runaway box |
| Ramsay | William | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 15 | Fall of roof |
| McDonald | Mark | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of roof |
| Cavasotte | Fernando | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of coal |
| McDonald | Allan | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Fall of roof |
| Ford | Julian | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Killed between box and boom |
| Potts | Charles | 1915 | Pictou County | Albion | Crushed by a trip of coal |
| O'Handley | John | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominon No. 11 | Killed between box and roof |
| Saccrey | John W. | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 9 | Fall of roof |
| Jennings | Thomas | 1915 | Cumberland | Joggins | Fall of stone |
| Chiasson | Elezare | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Pusher, killed by improperly spragged box |
| Gibson | Harry | 1915 | Cumberland | Joggins | Haulage rope breaking |
| Robertson | E. | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 6 | Oiler, clothes caught in revolving shaft (on surface) |