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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| McLean | Stephen | 1904 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines Colliery; Nova Scotia Steel & Coal | Fell against pump |
| Warren | Edward | 1904 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of stone from roof |
| McKinnon | Mick | 1904 | Cape Breton County | International | Fall of stone from roof |
| McVicar | Alexander | 1904 | Cape Breton County | International | Fall of coal from face |
| Bradley | Ephraim | 1904 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Metals gave heavy thump, broke timber and buried him under fall of coal. |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| McNeil | Stephen | 1904 | Cape Breton County | Caledonia | Killed by fall of roof coal |
| Roy | John H. | 1904 | Pictou County | Albion | Killed instantly in a fall |
| McDonald | Dan | 1903 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of cage down shaft |
| McNeil | John A. | 1903 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Run over by loaded box |
| Rickets | John A. | 1903 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Killed by fall of coal |
| MacLeod | James | 1903 | Pictou County | Acadia | Died 15 February |
| Quann | Joseph | 1903 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 3 | Caught between loaded box and pillar |
| Ryan | John W. | 1903 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Fatally injured |
| Merritt | John | 1903 | Inverness | Port Hood | Riding trip coupling broke hurling boxes against roof |
| Jackson | Harry or Henry | 1903 | Cape Breton County | Reserve | Methane explosion No.5 S level, French slope |
| King | Joseph | 1903 | Cape Breton County | Reserve | Methane explosion No.5 S level, French slope |
| King | William | 1903 | Cape Breton County | Reserve | Methane explosion No.5 S level, French slope |
| McNeil | Michael L. | 1903 | Cape Breton County | Reserve | Methane explosion No.5 S level, French slope |
| Whiteway | William | 1903 | Cape Breton County | Reserve | Methane explosion No.5 S level, French slope; died from burns 3 days later |
| Stubbert | Matthew | 1903 | Cape Breton County | Reserve | Mis-shot exploded while he was examining it |
| Hamilton | William | 1903 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines Colliery; Nova Scotia Steel & Coal | Killed by runaway trip on slope |
| Cameron | J.J. | 1903 | Inverness | Mabou | Caught by box on slope |
| Stewart | Wilkie | 1903 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines Colliery; Nova Scotia Steel & Coal | Tally boy, age 14; jammed between tub and tipple at pit head |
| Howlett | Robert | 1903 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines Colliery; Nova Scotia Steel & Coal | Fall of stone fractured skull |
| Ferguson | Robenich | 1903 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines Colliery; Nova Scotia Steel & Coal | Fall of stone |
| McMillan | John | 1903 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Jammed between roof and box |
| Nearing | Patrick | 1903 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of coal |
| Wilson | James | 1903 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fatally hurt by a full rake of boxes |
| Bennett | Elijah | 1903 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fatally injured, died an hout later |
| Fisher | Henry | 1903 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Fall of coal |
| Hyatt | Percy | 1903 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Killed in return side of fire door conveyors |
| MacKenzie | William | 1903 | Pictou County | Albion | Jumped from moving train in mine yard |
| Purdy | Charles L. | 1903 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Fall of rock |
| Robinson | Robert | 1903 | Pictou County | Albion | Fell under rail car which passed over him |
| Finlay | Daniel | 1903 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Hit by a rake on the hoisting slope |
| Blue | John M. | 1903 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Caught under descending cage |
| Keehn | Emile | 1903 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Run over by loaded box |
| McCuish | John | 1903 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of stone from roof |
| McDonald | John | 1903 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Caught between cage and pulleys |
| McDonald | Lauchlin | 1903 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Killed by hoisting bucket falling on him |
| Wamboldt | Harry | 1903 | Pictou County | Vale | Fall of stone at working face |
| Elliott | Hugh | 1902 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of coal at room face |
| Moncusco | Angelo | 1902 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Killed by full tub on main haulage road |
| McNulty | C. | 1902 | Pictou County | Vale | Powder explosion; 1 of 2 killed |
| Parr | Robert | 1902 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Killed: fell back in shaft from surface |
| Purvis | James | 1902 | Pictou County | Albion | Fall of top coal |