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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Devison | Hector | 1946 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Caught between box and stopping |
| Cochrane | William L. | 1946 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Killed by mine machinery |
| Dean | George W. | 1946 | Cumberland | Springhill No .4 | Fall of coal |
| McMullin | John William | 1945 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 18 | Fall of stone |
| Flemming | James E. | 1945 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fall of stone |
| Luscombe | Edmund Clarence | 1945 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Caught between box and timber |
| Nicoloff | George | 1945 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Fall of coal |
| Caverzan | Gaetano | 1945 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Haulage |
| McKinnon | Daniel S. | 1945 | Inverness | Inverness No. 3 | Fall of stone |
| Coulier | Alfred | 1945 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Hit by a runaway box |
| MacKinnon | Angus | 1945 | Inverness | Inverness No. 3 | Fall of stone |
| Munro | Charles | 1945 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Crushed by full box of coal |
| McDonald | Allan | 1945 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 18 | Fall of stone; 1 of 2 killed |
| McMullin | Roderick | 1945 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 18 | Fall of stone; 1 of 2 killed |
| Treige | John | 1945 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 11 | Struck by level trip |
| Porter | Thomas D. | 1945 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Struck by rake |
| Halliday | Charles | 1945 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Struck by rake |
| McIntyre | Rod | 1945 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Fall of stone |
| Seward | Peter | 1945 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 24 | Fall of stone |
| McDougall | Daniel R. | 1945 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall from bankhead (surface) |
| Saunders | Fred | 1944 | Pictou County | Drummond (Intercolonial) No. 2 Scott slope | Fall of coal |
| Porter | Melburn Parker | 1944 | Cumberland | Standard (Sweetcake) or Strathcona No.2 | Fall of stone |
| MacLeod | Duncan | 1944 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Fall of stone |
| Saltys | Joseph | 1944 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Strick by flying timber from tram |
| Roman | George | 1944 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Struck by box |
| Mason | Arthur | 1944 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Struck by trap door dislodged by trip |
| McInnis | Hugh | 1944 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 18 | Crushed between derailed box and timber |
| Dewan | James | 1944 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Struck by trip |
| Oliver | William | 1944 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Struck by trip |
| McLeod | Thomas | 1944 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal and stone |
| Newman | George | 1944 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 | Struck by boom moved by coal scoop |
| Hart | Thomas | 1944 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Fall of stone |
| Rushton | William A. | 1944 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall of coal |
| Doucette | Medric | 1944 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 24 | Fall of stone |
| Caldwell | Charles J. | 1944 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Bump |
| Cherpack | John | 1944 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Runaway trip; 1 of 3 killed |
| Chapman | Neil D. | 1944 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Crushed under trip |
| MacKay | Earl | 1944 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Runaway trip; 1 of 3 killed |
| Corkin | Thomas A. | 1944 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Fall of stone |
| Parsons | James | 1944 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Runaway trip; 1 of 3 killed |
| Jacob or Jacobs | Louis L. | 1944 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Fall of stone |
| MacKay | Daniel L. | 1944 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Bump |
| Forrest | William | 1944 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall of stone |
| McKinnon | Joseph | 1943 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 14 | Gas asphixiation; 1 of 2 killed |
| Woodfine | Solomon | 1943 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 14 | Gas asphixiation; 1 of 2 killed |
| Dorando | Albert | 1943 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Struck by runaway box |
| McDonald | John | 1943 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| Muckle or Muckie | David | 1943 | Cumberland | Bayview | Run over by trip |
| Stevenson | James | 1943 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Coal tank platform tilted, threw man down shaft; 1 of 4 killed being lifted in coal shaft |
| Forris | Stephen | 1943 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |