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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MacLean | Alex | 1937 | Pictou County | Acadia No. 7 (Moss mine) | Fall of coal |
| Dixon | Alex | 1943 | Inverness | Inverness No. 1 | Fall of stone |
| Steele | Alex | 1928 | Cape Breton County | Florence | Fall of stone |
| Glenn | Alex | 1895 | Pictou County | Acadia | Fall from roof of working face |
| McIntyre | Alex | 1929 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Struck by cage |
| Graham | Alex | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 15 | Fall of stone |
| Foster | Alex | 1894 | Pictou County | Albion | Run over by a coal trip |
| Borden | Alex | 1905 | Cape Breton County | Caledonia | Fall of coal from face |
| McCosh | Alex | 1890 | Cape Breton County | Gowrie | Fall of stone from roof |
| Young | Alex | 1949 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Haulage |
| Liddle | Alex | 1904 | Cumberland | Chignecto | Caught between box & coal crib, died 9 days later |
| McLeod | Alex | 1933 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Run over by trip |
| Spence | Alex | 1956 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Draegerman; carbon monoxide post explosion |
| Poirier | Alex | 1971 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Natural Causes |
| Dugas | Alex | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Colonial | Crushed between box and rib |
| MacKinnon | Alex | 1905 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Bump |
| Rordenan | Alex | 1919 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 5 | Fall of stone |
| McGillivray | Alex | 1871 | Pictou County | Foord pit | Killed in the Foord by gas |
| Bigney or Bignay | Alex | 1908 or 1909 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Fall of stone |
| Degaust | Alex | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 7 | Fall of stone |
| Aexter | Alex | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines No. 3 (Florence) | Explosion |
| McGowen | Alex | 1886 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines (Princess?) | Dropped dead at face by heart disease |
| Campbell | Alex | 1956 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Electricity-fired coal dust explosion |
| MacLean | Alex | 1867 | Pictou County | unidentified shaft being sunk or Cage pit | Methane explosion |
| McSween | Alex | 1954 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Construction |
| McNeil | Alex H | 1941 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 24 | Attempted to get on moving train |
| MacKenzie | Alex J. | 1970 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Struck by a trip on the south angle |
| McDonald | Alex P. | 1943 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Crushed between boxes |
| Munroe | Alex W. | 1942 | Pictou County | McGregor | Hit by a trip |
| Campbell | Alexander | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Cameron | Alexander | 1888 | Pictou County | English Slopes (abandoned) | Overground as a boiler was being lowered |
| McVicar | Alexander | 1904 | Cape Breton County | International | Fall of coal from face |
| Vickers | Alexander | 1906 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines (Princess) | Killed trying to jump on a full trip |
| Cameron | Alexander | 1906 | Pictou County | Vale | Run over by a hopper in pit yard |
| McInnis | Alexander | 1895 | Cape Breton County | Victoria | Caught between coal box and pillar |
| Andreggo | Alexander | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 14 | Struck by runaway box |
| Ryan | Alexander | 1873 | Cape Breton County | Lingan | Fall of coal |
| Stewart | Alexander | 1918 | Pictou County | Albion (Purvis slope) | Coal box fell to the ground |
| Vance | Alexander | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Handley | Alexander | 1964 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Haulage |
| MacDougall | Alexander | 1964 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Haulage |
| Vance | Alexander | 1931 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Squeezed between two boxes |
| MacLean | Alexander | 1980 | Cape Breton County | Prince | Crushed by bucket against wall of shaft |
| Fraser | Alexander | 1875 | Pictou County | Black Diamond | Crushed by moving coal tub against a doorpost |
| Ross | Alexander | 1872 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Methane explosion |
| Jessoe | Alexander | 1934 | Cape Breton County | Colonial No. 1 | Fall of stone |
| Hacquoil | Alexander | 1914 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fatal injuries |
| Pashkoski or Pasoshki | Alexander | 1946 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 | Killed by haulage |
| Fraser | Alexander | 1883 | Pictou County | Vale | Drawbar broke, crash of runaway slope rake |
| Ross | Alexander | 1911 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Struck by a rake |