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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balzoni | Pietro | 1934 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| Miller | Edward | 1935 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal |
| Snow | Albert Joseph | 1936 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Run over by trip |
| Peretta | Silvio | 1937 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Fall of coal |
| Royal | James | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Struck by tub of coal |
| Dawe | Edward | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Broken cable on riding rake; 1 of 21 killed |
| Harte | Simon | 1939 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal |
| Rozmarinovich | Fred | 1941 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Crushed between box and drop |
| Martin | Francis | 1942 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Struck by box |
| McDonald | Angus L. | 1943 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Fall of stone |
| Young | Walter | 1943 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| Parsons | James | 1944 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Runaway trip; 1 of 3 killed |
| Fraser | Hugh | 1946 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Haulage |
| MacEachern | Donald | 1948 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Fall of stone |
| Rowe | Simon J. | 1949 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 26 | Haulage |
| MacMillan | Angus R. | 1951 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Haulage |
| Desmond | Herbert | 1952 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Methane explosion; 1 of 7 killed |
| McSween | Alex | 1954 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Construction |
| Slade | Elijah | 1955 | Cape Breton County | Florence | Haulage |
| Cameron | Angus | 1957 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| Sutherland | David | 1958 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 18 | Haulage |
| McInnis | Donald | 1959 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Fall of stone |
| Campbell | Joseph | 1961 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Mechanical |
| Howie | Thomas | 1964 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 26 | Haulage |
| MacIntyre | Murdock | 1967 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Haulage: Caught between timber and box |
| Baxter | Robert | 1969 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Fall of stone |
| MacInnis | John F. | 1974 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Struck by empty mine car trip |
| MacLean | Alexander | 1980 | Cape Breton County | Prince | Crushed by bucket against wall of shaft |
| Currie | Angus | 1868 | Cape Breton County | Gowrie | Fall of coal |
| Neville | john | 1873 | Cape Breton County | International | Crushed by train |
| Millville | Edward | 1878 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines (Princess) | Methane explosion; 1 of 6 killed |
| McDonald | Hugh | 1889 | Cape Breton County | Reserve | Fall of loose coal |
| Boutilier | John | 1893 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines (Princess?) | Firedamp escaped from submerged district; (methane poisoning) |
| McLennan | Philip | 1896 | Cape Breton County | Reserve | Fall of roof coal while loading |
| McAulay | Malcolm | 1899 | Cape Breton County | Caledonia | Afterdamp from methane explosion; 1 of 11 killed |
| Nolan | John | 1900 | Cape Breton County | Caledonia | Coal fall in room, died next day |
| McDonald | John B. | 1901 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Struck by falling roof stone while undercutting with machine |
| Long | George | 1892 | Cape Breton County | Victoria | Scalded by boiler explosion, died 9 days later 1 of 3 killed |
| Rickets | John A. | 1903 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Killed by fall of coal |
| McVicar | Alexander | 1904 | Cape Breton County | International | Fall of coal from face |
| Vickers | Edward | 1905 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines (Princess) | Fall of stone |
| Vickers | Alexander | 1906 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines (Princess) | Killed trying to jump on a full trip |
| Strople | Ralph | 1907 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal |
| Girdinetti | G. | 1908 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of coal from face |
| Baxendale | Ellis | 1908 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines (Princess) | Fall of stone |
| Arkley | Robert | 1909 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 3 | Hip dislocated by fall, died in hospital after 2 days |
| McKenzie | Hector | 1910 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 3 | Electric switch |
| Hamilton | James | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Shot blew through on slant containing water, partly driven between main slope, drowned; 1 of 2 killed |
| Howlett | Robert | 1903 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines Colliery; Nova Scotia Steel & Coal | Fall of stone fractured skull |
| Smart | John | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fell under trip of coal |