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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chase | Richard | 1918 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 9 | Caught between shaft and car |
| Laderie | Desire | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Tabbot | John | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Campbell | Rod | 1918 | Cape Breton County | Dominon No. 11 | Fall of stone |
| Humblet | Victor | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Laderie | Sylvia | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Pettipas | Fred | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fall of top coal |
| Barcey | Clement | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Copely | David | 1918 | Cape Breton County | Scotia (Sydney Mines) | Fall of stone |
| Pickerton | Thomas | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Winton | Robert | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| McPherson | Moses | 1918 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Fall of stone |
| MacKenzie | Hugh | 1918 | Pictou County | Albion | Crushed by cars |
| McAulay | Joseph | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Poloski | Wentzell | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Wooden | John | 1918 | Pictou County | Greenwood | roof fall |
| McLeod | Malcolm | 1918 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 6 | Fall of stone and till |
| Grasesnack | C. G. | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Roy | Benjamin | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Struck by piece of coal, died 3 days after |
| MacKenzie | Kenneth | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| McAulay | John | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Bartholemew or Bartholomew | Louis | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Works | Howard | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Toomey | Joseph | 1918 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Caught by full box |
| Bartholemew or Bartholomew | Joseph | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Donnelly | Robert | 1918 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Fall of stone |
| Cossman | Isadore | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Bastin or Baston | Andrew | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Sloan | Dan | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Launey | Francis | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Thompson | Melvin | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Hand | James | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Zomoskie | Peter | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Gabriel | Alexander | 1918 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall of stone |
| Dunbar | W. Sr | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Myers | William | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Crawford | Edward | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Jerrold | Clement | 1918 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Struck by empty mine car |
| Nacas | Wentzell | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Hanuse | Alfred | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Rooney | Ottie or Ronnie | 1918 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Stone rolled down fan slope, hit him on head |
| Hanuse | Cammile | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Hale | Joseph W. | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| McPherson | Lemuel | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Thibideau or Thibodeau | Godfrey | 1918 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Jammed between props |
| Smith | Alexander | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Carrigan | Peter | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Brixco | Nicholas | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Duprey | Edward | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Sampler | Samuel Jr. | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |