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 |
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Degaust | Alex | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 7 | Fall of stone |
Steele | Alex | 1928 | Cape Breton County | Florence | Fall of stone |
McGillivray | Alex | 1871 | Pictou County | Foord pit | Killed in the Foord by gas |
Nichelson | Alex | 1889 | Cape Breton County | Victoria | |
Young | Alex | 1949 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Haulage |
Aexter | Alex | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines No. 3 (Florence) | Explosion |
MacLean | Alex | 1867 | Pictou County | unidentified shaft being sunk or Cage pit | Methane explosion |
McIntyre | Alex | 1929 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Struck by cage |
Glenn | Alex | 1895 | Pictou County | Acadia | Fall from roof of working face |
Jenson or Jamieson | Alex | 1914 | Pictou County | Albion | Run over by a box |
LeBlanc | Alex | 1927 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Crushed: 2 runaway boxes hit box he was lifting |
MacLean | Alex | 1937 | Pictou County | Acadia No. 7 (Moss mine) | Fall of coal |
Dixon | Alex | 1943 | Inverness | Inverness No. 1 | Fall of stone |
Campbell | Alex | 1956 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Electricity-fired coal dust explosion |
MacKinnon | Alex | 1905 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Bump |
Liddle | Alex | 1904 | Cumberland | Chignecto | Caught between box & coal crib, died 9 days later |
Foster | Alex | 1894 | Pictou County | Albion | Run over by a coal trip |
Graham | Alex | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 15 | Fall of stone |
McCosh | Alex | 1890 | Cape Breton County | Gowrie | Fall of stone from roof |
Bigney or Bignay | Alex | 1908 or 1909 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Fall of stone |
Caporallo | Alex | 1936 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Struck by trip |
McLeod | Alex | 1933 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Run over by trip |
McSween | Alex | 1954 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Construction |
Borden | Alex | 1905 | Cape Breton County | Caledonia | Fall of coal from face |
Dugas | Alex | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Colonial | Crushed between box and rib |
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 |
Jessoe | Alexander | 1934 | Cape Breton County | Colonial No. 1 | Fall of stone |
Campbell | Alexander | 1899 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of loose coal from hung shot |
Hacquoil | Alexander | 1914 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fatal injuries |
Morrison | Alexander | 1902 | Cape Breton County | Caledonia | Fall of coal from pillar |
MacDonald | Alexander | 1880 | Pictou County | Foord pit | Devastating methane explosion |
McKinnon | Alexander | 1895 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Methane explosion; 1 of 2 killed |
Brunt | Alexander | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
Watts | Alexander | 1878 | Inverness | Port Hood | Explosion of steam boiler; 1 of 2 killed |
Bond | Alexander | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Sydney No. 3 (Florence) | Fall of coal |
Cameron | Alexander | 1888 | Pictou County | English Slopes (abandoned) | Overground as a boiler was being lowered |
Jamieson | Alexander | 1914 | Pictou County | Albion | Killed by cage |
Cameron | Alexander | 1906 | Pictou County | Vale | Run over by a hopper in pit yard |
Stewart | Alexander | 1918 | Pictou County | Albion (Purvis slope) | Coal box fell to the ground |
Campbell | Alexander | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
Gabriel | Alexander | 1918 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall of stone |
Cameron | Alexander | 1978 | Cape Breton County | Lingan | Fall of stone |
Andreggo | Alexander | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 14 | Struck by runaway box |
Ryan | Alexander | 1873 | Cape Breton County | Lingan | Fall of coal |
Bunton | Alexander | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Massive gas and coal dust explosioni |
Fraser | Alexander | 1875 | Pictou County | Black Diamond | Crushed by moving coal tub against a doorpost |
Fraser | Alexander | 1883 | Pictou County | Vale | Drawbar broke, crash of runaway slope rake |