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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| McNeil | Angus J. | 1940 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Struck by trip |
| Moseychuck | Victor | 1957 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Haulage |
| Cameron | John | 1962 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Haulage |
| McDonald | Allan | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Fall of roof |
| McLennan | J. A. | 1916 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Caught by cage |
| Boone | Isaac | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |
| Durham | Thomas | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |
| McKay | John D. | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |
| Parsons | William | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |
| McDonald | Angus V. | 1935 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Struck by trip |
| Butt | George | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |
| Fahey | Timothy | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |
| McKenzie | John H. | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Rescue work after explosion |
| Peach | William J. | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |
| Boutilier | Arthur | 1925 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Fall of stone |
| McCumiskey | Owen | 1930 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Struck by trip |
| Woodland | Herbert | 1942 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Struck by trip |
| Williams | Clarie | 1953 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Fall of sotne |
| Butt or Butts | George W. | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |
| Fedora | Joseph | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |
| McLean | Frank | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |
| Penny | Reuben | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |
| McDonald | Allan J. | 1920 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Struck on head by upright timber, died 3 days later |
| Perfect | Joseph | 1924 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Killed by moving railway cars |
| Wilcox | Nicholas | 1925 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Tally boy; boxes on bankhead |
| Blackwood | Fraser | 1928 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Struck by runaway box |
| McDonald | Dan | 1930 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Fall of stone |
| Head | Walter | 1937 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Crushed between box and chock |
| McDonald | A. J. | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Fall of coal |
| Butts | Joseph L. | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |
| Ferguson | Charles | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |
| McLellan | Andrew | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |
| Pietzrak or Pietchieck | Carl | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Rescue work after explosion |
| McIsaac | James | 1948 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Haulage |
| Bates | Willis | 1957 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Haulage |
| McDonald | Ronald H. | 1934 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12, Surface | Fell while working on bankhead machinery |
| McMullin | Andrew | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 13 | Fall of stone at face |
| Francis | Arthur J. | 1930 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 14 | Fall of stone |
| Brown | Michael | 1928 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 14 | Fall of coal |
| McKenzie | John H. | 1931 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 14 | Run over by trip |
| Moro | Tino | 1930 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 14 | Fall of coal |
| Handrigan | John | 1923 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 14 | Fall of stone in pillar work; 1 of 2 killed |
| Gerard | Daniel | 1931 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 14 | Engine and bed raised by jerk; he fell underneath |
| Cicchetto | Albert | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 14 | Fall of stone |
| Doyle | James | 1920 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 14 | Struck by empty trip |
| MacDougall | Daniel | 1923 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 14 | Fall of stone in pillar work 1 of 2 killed |
| O'Handley | Michael | 1928 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 14 | Caught between box and rib |