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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miller | Penman | 1926 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall of stone |
| Shaw | Elias | 1926 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Scalded by steam |
| Feit | Frank | 1926 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 6 | Fall of stone |
| McInnes | Michael | 1926 | Cape Breton County | Dominon No. 11 | Trip of boxes left rails |
| Roach | Dan | 1926 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Fall of stone |
| Campbell | John | 1926 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Trip of boxes |
| Smith | John J. | 1926 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Coal fall that had him buried for 2 hours |
| Nearing | Alonzo | 1926 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Fall of stone |
| Andrews | Archibald | 1926 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Struck by metal that fell off ascending cage or chuck falling down shaft |
| McPhee | Angus | 1926 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Squeezed between longwall machine and face |
| Martell | Louis | 1926 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Falling pit timber |
| McDonald | Lewis | 1926 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 24 | Fall of stone |
| Davies | Peter | 1926 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Fall of stone |
| Campbell | William C. | 1926 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 14 | Trip of boxes |
| Driscol or Driscoll | William | 1926 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Slipped from car, wheels passed over him |
| Hariett | Daniel | 1926 | Cape Breton County | Colonial No. 1 | Caught in longwall machine cutter chain |
| Bennett | Henry | 1926 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Falling boom |
| Murrell | Arthur | 1927 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 11 | Fall of stone |
| Cameron | Fred | 1927 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Run over by trip |
| Fitzner | John | 1927 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| McDonald | john J. | 1927 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 22 | Struck by trip |
| Borsato | Giovanni | 1927 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal |
| Riley | James | 1927 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Squeezed between boxes |
| Heighton | Dan | 1927 | Pictou County | Albion | Fall of coal |
| McNeil | John | 1927 | Inverness | Inverness No. 1 | Crushed by full boxes of coal |
| Young | James | 1927 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Squeezed between prop and trip |
| Penny | Charles J. | 1927 | Cape Breton County | Florence | Fall of stone |
| Rushton | Nelson W. | 1927 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 11 | Fall of stone |
| Jesso | Frank | 1927 | Cape Breton County | Colonial | Fall of stone |
| Nicholson | William | 1927 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Squeezed between box and pillar |
| Clark | Josiah | 1927 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 24 | Fall of stone |
| Willigher | Mark | 1927 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 6 | Cause not recorded |
| Kennedy | John | 1927 | Cape Breton County | Colonial | Electrocuted in logement |
| Dickson | Wlliam | 1927 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 7 | Struck by rake |
| Kernekant or Heinekamp | Herman | 1927 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| Cameron | Archie | 1927 | Inverness | Inverness No. 1 | Fall of coal |
| Clark | James | 1927 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 5 | Fall of stone |
| Hocevar | James | 1927 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Fall of stone |
| Ferguson | John R. | 1927 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Kicked by a horse |
| Mason | Stanley | 1927 | Pictou County | Albion | Fall of coal |
| MacDougall | John | 1927 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of roof, died almost 6 months later |
| Dalling | Timothy | 1927 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Killed by riding on coal trip which derailed |
| Urquhart | Elwood | 1927 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fall of coal from face |
| Young | George | 1927 | Cape Breton County | Colonial No. 1 | Fall of stone |
| Laite | James | 1927 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fall of coal from face |
| McDonnell | Dan | 1927 | Inverness | Inverness No. 1 | Fall of coal |
| LeBlanc | Alex | 1927 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Crushed: 2 runaway boxes hit box he was lifting |
| Blackwood | Fraser | 1928 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Struck by runaway box |
| Jones | William | 1928 | Cape Breton County | Florence | Steel railing falling from car |
| Pendergrast | John | 1928 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Fall of stone |