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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Genter | Frank | 1906 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal from face |
| Elkin | Fred | 1906 | Cumberland | Springhill | Killed by trolleys on surface |
| Ripley | Ira | 1906 | Cumberland | Joggins | Fall of top coal |
| McVicar | Allen | 1906 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of stone from roof |
| Davis | Ben | 1906 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Being buried by coal |
| Prindle | Joe | 1906 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal from face |
| Doucette | P. | 1906 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 3 | Struck by runaway box |
| Ireland | Dan | 1906 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 6 | Struck by box |
| Slanwhite | M. | 1906 | Cape Breton County | Hub | Fall of stone |
| Gunn | Stanley or David | 1906 | Pictou County | English Slopes (abandoned) | Methane exploded when boy lit match while playing near old slope opening; 1 of 2 killed |
| Rocker | R. | 1906 | Cape Breton County | International | Fall of stone from roof |
| Gardner | Joseph | 1906 | Cape Breton County | Reserve | Fall of stone from roof |
| Laforte | Nelson | 1906 | Cape Breton County | Reserve | Struck by full box on slope |
| Morrison | John | 1906 | Cape Breton County | Reserve | Fatally injured between boxes on slope |
| Reddick | Robert, Sr. | 1906 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines (Princess) | Killed while mining, a shot blew down on him |
| Fraser | J. W. | 1905 | Pictou County | Marsh | rock fall |
| McKay | John w. | 1905 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines Colliery; Nova Scotia Steel & Coal | Killed by riding on a trip |
| Carey | William | 1905 | Cape Breton County | New Campbellton | Killed on main slope by the trip |
| Borden | Alex | 1905 | Cape Breton County | Caledonia | Fall of coal from face |
| Chisholm | Norman | 1905 | Cape Breton County | Caledonia | Fall of coal from face |
| McInnis | Duncan | 1905 | Cape Breton County | Caledonia | Fall of stone from roof |
| Fitzgerald | Laurence | 1905 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of stone from roof |
| McMullin | Joseph | 1905 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal from face |
| Steele | Malcolm | 1905 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fatally injured from premature shot |
| McDonald | James T. | 1905 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 3 | Fall of coal from roof |
| Laffin | John J. | 1905 | Cape Breton County | Reserve | Fall of coal from face |
| Walsh | William | 1905 | Inverness | Port Hood | Hit by boom sliding down slope while timbering |
| McVarish | J. | 1905 | Cape Breton County | Reserve | Run over by box |
| Sellars | Nich | 1905 | Cape Breton County | Reserve | Fall of stone from roof |
| Vickers | Edward | 1905 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines (Princess) | Fall of stone |
| Cherrie | William | 1905 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | killed at the 2400-foot level |
| Hannah | Joseph | 1905 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Killed instantly by being run over by hopper |
| Scott | John W. | 1905 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Killed by trip on turnout |
| Henderson | William | 1905 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Fall of coal |
| MacKinnon | Alex | 1905 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Bump |
| Wilkes | F. | 1905 | Pictou County | Marsh | Powder explosion |
| MacLeod | unknown | 1905 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fall of stone from shaft wall being excavated as they were sinking the shaft |
| Cooke | H. A. | 1905 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fell when staging broke in shaft as they were sinking it |
| Perris or Paris | A. | 1905 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fell when staging broke in shaft as they were sinking it |
| McVicar | Alexander | 1904 | Cape Breton County | International | Fall of coal from face |
| Roy | John H. | 1904 | Pictou County | Albion | Killed instantly in a fall |
| Jesso | Simon | 1904 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines Colliery; Nova Scotia Steel & Coal | Killed by fall of stone |
| McMullen | Bernard | 1904 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines Colliery; Nova Scotia Steel & Coal | Killed by a trip |
| McNeil | Stephen | 1904 | Cape Breton County | Caledonia | Killed by fall of roof coal |
| McDougall | John A. | 1904 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines Colliery; Nova Scotia Steel & Coal | Fall of stone |
| Young | Archie | 1904 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines Colliery; Nova Scotia Steel & Coal | Fall of coal |
| Bradley | Ephraim | 1904 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Metals gave heavy thump, broke timber and buried him under fall of coal. |
| McLean | Stephen | 1904 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines Colliery; Nova Scotia Steel & Coal | Fell against pump |
| Elbridge | Clifford | 1904 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall in chute, smothered by coal |
| Foster | Archie | 1904 | Cumberland | Aberdeen | Caught between box and chute; died on beaching bank |