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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crain | John | 1909 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 3 | Fall of stone |
| Kuss | Anthony | 1910 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Fall of stone face |
| Laffin | Ambrose | 1889 | Cape Breton County | Victoria; possibly Cumberland Co. | Killed by loose coal by face of junk while at work in his room |
| Ferguson | Robenich | 1903 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines Colliery; Nova Scotia Steel & Coal | Fall of stone |
| Hawes | Thomas | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Fall of stone in pillar |
| Bacarro | Guissippi | 1912 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Jammed between trip and door |
| McKinnon | Rod | 1912 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Fall of stone |
| McDonald | Dan | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| McDonald | Dan | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 8 | Fell over trestle |
| Lawlor | Richard | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Runaway box |
| Lebonis | Andre | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Fall of stone |
| Cavasotte | Fernando | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of coal |
| Campbell | Hector | 1916 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of roof |
| Gilhomes | R. D. | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 7 | Run over by trip of cars |
| Boa | Constatntine | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |
| Domokosch | George | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |
| McIntyre | Paul | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |
| Parsons | George E. | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |
| Wadystan | Wyercbick | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |
| Toomey | Joseph | 1918 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Caught by full box |
| Hanrahan | Joseph | 1920 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Jammed between loaded box and boom |
| West | Herbert | 1921 | Cape Breton County | Florence | Fall of coal |
| Vanherek | Henry | 1922 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 14 | Fall of stone |
| Hibbs | James | 1922 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Struck by runaway car in deep |
| McDonald | Daniel | 1924 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 24 | Fall of stone; 1 of 2 killed |
| Jacques | Arthur | 1925 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Trip of boxes |
| Driscol or Driscoll | William | 1926 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Slipped from car, wheels passed over him |
| Jesso | Frank | 1927 | Cape Breton County | Colonial | Fall of stone |
| Keigan | Patrick | 1928 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Fall of stone |
| Bonner | Harry | 1929 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of stone |
| Walsh | P. Joseph | 1929 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Struck by runaway box |
| Bozeman | John | 1931 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal |
| Waye | Daniel | 1931 | Cape Breton County | Florence | Fall of coal from face |
| Grycorn | John | 1933 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Fall of stone |
| Russell | James | 1934 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Heart failure |
| McDonald | Angus V. | 1935 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Struck by trip |
| Hall | William | 1937 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 5 | Run over by full box |
| McMahon | Joseph | 1937 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Fall of stone |
| McPhee | Malcolm | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Broken cable on riding rake; 1 of 21 killed |
| Luffman | William | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Broken cable on riding rake; 1 of 21 killed |
| Cirotto | Giovanni | 1940 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Fall of stone |
| McIntyre | Donald | 1941 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Fall of stone |
| Gouthro | John W. | 1942 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Struck by trip |
| McKinnon | Joseph | 1943 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 14 | Gas asphixiation; 1 of 2 killed |
| Collins | William | 1943 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Crushed under trip |
| Treige | John | 1945 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 11 | Struck by level trip |
| O'Neil | Dan J. | 1946 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Bump (more than 2 miles offshore); 1 of 4 killed |
| Campbell | Gregory | 1948 | Cape Breton County | Lloyds No. 7 | Machinery |
| Miller | Charles | 1949 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| MacDonald | John T. | 1951 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall in shaft |