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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| McNeil | Charles | 1928 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Struck by empty runaway train |
| McNeil | Dan C. | 1931 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Struck by trip |
| McDonald | Daniel O. | 1934 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Fall of stone |
| Layton | William | 1937 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Injured while riding trip |
| Pordorski or Prodorski | Peter | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Struck by trip |
| Mitetski | Woosyl | 1916 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Fall of coal |
| Crummey or Crominey | Thomas | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |
| Martin | Joseph | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |
| Newman | John | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |
| Teichman or Tiechman | Herman | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |
| Robbins | William F. | 1921 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Fall of stone |
| Berger | Charles | 1925 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Killed by a trip of boxes |
| Power | Andrew | 1939 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Fall of roof |
| McDonald | Laurence | 1949 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Fall of stone |
| Podgurski | Stephen | 1958 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Haulage |
| Nevat | Andrew | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Fall of roof |
| Curry | Charles | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |
| Matthews | George W. | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |
| Nicholson | Philip | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Rescue work after explosion |
| Walsh | Joseph | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |
| Young | James | 1927 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Squeezed between prop and trip |
| Hines | Thomas J. | 1934 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Fall of stone |
| O'Connor | Wilmot | 1939 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Fall of coal |
| McDonald | John A. | 1942 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | fall of stone |
| Murrant | Edgar | 1956 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Haulage |
| Marsh | Russel | 1959 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Fall of stone |
| Chiasson | Arthur | 1961 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Haulage |
| Gaskin | Thomas | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Fall of stone |
| Curry | John | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |
| McDonald | Thomas | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |
| O'Leary | Michael | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |
| Whalen | John R. | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |
| Seldon | George | 1923 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Fall of stone from roof in room |
| McDonald | Angus L. | 1943 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Fall of stone |
| Fraser | Hugh | 1946 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Haulage |
| MacEachern | Donald | 1948 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Fall of stone |
| McInnis | Donald | 1959 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Fall of stone |
| Curry | Michael | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |
| 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 |
| Campbell | William C. | 1926 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 14 | Trip of boxes |
| Vanherek | Henry | 1922 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 14 | Fall of stone |
| Arsenault | John | 1931 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 14 | Caught between box and prop |
| McKinnon | Joseph | 1943 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 14 | Gas asphixiation; 1 of 2 killed |
| Arsenault | Arsene | 1932 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 14 | Caught between trip and prop |
| Woodfine | Solomon | 1943 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 14 | Gas asphixiation; 1 of 2 killed |
| Doolan | James | 1930 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 14 | Struck by runaway box |
| 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 |