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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Briggs | George | 1946 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Bump (more than 2 miles offshore); 1 of 4 killed |
| MacKenzie | Norman J. | 1946 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Bump (more than 2 miles offshore); 1 of 4 killed |
| Gallant | Joseph | 1946 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Fall of roof |
| White | Clarence | 1946 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Haulage |
| Muise | Patrick | 1946 | Inverness | Inverness | Killed by haulage |
| Kennedy | James | 1946 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 24 | Fall of roof |
| Peddle | Arthur | 1946 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Haulage |
| Cobert | James | 1946 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Haulage |
| Jeffrey | Leonard | 1946 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Explosives |
| Cameron | John W. | 1946 | Pictou County | Albion | Struck by coal trip on main slope |
| Pashkoski or Pasoshki | Alexander | 1946 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 | Killed by haulage |
| Cochrane | William L. | 1946 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Killed by mine machinery |
| Dean | George W. | 1946 | Cumberland | Springhill No .4 | Fall of coal |
| Devison | Hector | 1946 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Caught between box and stopping |
| Campbell | Percy | 1946 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft Wash Plant | Injured putting up a door bar, died a week later |
| Aucoin | William Joseph | 1946 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of roof |
| Lamond | Daniel | 1946 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Haulage |
| McKinnon | Lauchlin | 1947 | Inverness | Campbell or No. 4 | Fall of roof |
| Roberts | Alfred | 1947 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 26 | Fall of roof |
| Morrison | John | 1947 | Cape Breton County | Greener | Fall of roof |
| Carey | George | 1947 | Cape Breton County | Florence | Bankhead (surface) |
| Copan | John | 1947 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Caught by a haulage cable |
| Penny | Thomas | 1948 | Pictou County | Drummond (Intercolonial) No. 4 slope | Fall of stone |
| MacKenzie | Rod J. | 1948 | Pictou County | Drummond (Intercolonial) No. 2 Scott slope | Killed in haulage |
| MacEachern | Donald | 1948 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Fall of stone |
| Gardiner | Ambrose | 1948 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 25 | Fall of stone |
| Melnick | Steve | 1948 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Haulage |
| Campbell | Gregory | 1948 | Cape Breton County | Lloyds No. 7 | Machinery |
| Leggett | Herbert | 1948 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall of stone; 1 of 2 killed |
| Goldie | Peter | 1948 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Haulage |
| McGraw | Ernest | 1948 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall of stone; 1 of 2 killed |
| Copley | Samuel | 1948 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Machinery |
| Light | Fred J. | 1948 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Killed by haulage |
| McIsaac | James | 1948 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Haulage |
| O'Connell | Patrick | 1948 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Explosives |
| Morgan | George | 1948 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Haulage |
| Weeks | Archie | 1948 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Haulage |
| Coffin | Louis | 1949 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Haulage |
| Rowe | Simon J. | 1949 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 26 | Haulage |
| Boutilier | Fred | 1949 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Fall of stone |
| Lyons | Thomas | 1949 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 24 | Fall of stone |
| Miller | Charles | 1949 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| Rose | John | 1949 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Fall of stone |
| MacIntosh | John J. | 1949 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Fall of stone |
| Davidson | Robert | 1949 | Pictou County | Albion | Fall of coal |
| Hayes | Matthew | 1949 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Haulage |
| Johnstone | Louis | 1949 | Pictou County | McBean | Caught by a moving cable in haulage |
| Baudoux | Alfred H. | 1949 | Pictou County | McBean | Killed riding a trip on the main slope; was McBean manager |
| Gabriel | Thomas | 1949 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Bump |
| Ransome | James H. | 1949 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |