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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fortune | Joseph R. | 1930 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 14 | Donkey runner; caught in drum of engine |
| McKenzie | Stephen | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 14 | Struck by cage balance |
| Pomyea | Daragha | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 14 | Fall of roof |
| Andreggo | Alexander | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 14 | Struck by runaway box |
| Porteous | James | 1916 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 14 | Killed between box and pillar |
| McKinnon | Murdoch | 1928 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 14 | Fall of coal |
| Cowans | Daniel A. | 1930 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 14 | Struck head on boom |
| Johnston | James | 1916 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 14 | Killed by trip |
| McDougall | John J. | 1928 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 14 | Hit by a small stone |
| 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 |
| Spiccochi | Higo | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 14 or Dominion No. 1 | Fall of coal from face |
| Cauffery | Albert | 1912 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 15 | Premature shot |
| Boutilier | Thomas | 1919 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 15 | Fall of stone |
| Yak | Nicholas | 1916 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 15 | Fall of roof |
| Buso | Petro | 1923 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 15 | Crushed between mine car and rib, died next day |
| Grave | Henry | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 15 | Fall of stone |
| Graham | Alex | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 15 | Fall of stone |
| McLean | Edward | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 15 | Fall of stone |
| Leemore | Ferdinand | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 15 | Fall of stone |
| Ramsay | William | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 15 | Fall of roof |
| Mini | Francisco | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 15 | Electric wire |
| Zyales | Stainslaw | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 15 | Fall of stone |
| Smith | Isaac | 1916 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 15 | Struck by trip of coal boxes |
| Munro | John D. | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 15 | Run over by a trip of cars |
| McGrath | Patrick | 1916 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 15 | Fall of roof |
| Zyales | Stainslaw | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 15 | Fall of stone |
| Thorne | Wesley | 1959 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Haulage |
| Murray | Garfield | 1939 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of coal |
| Forris | Stephen | 1943 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| White | Clarence | 1946 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Haulage |
| McDonald | Donald | 1952 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| Paul | George | 1937 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of coal |
| Cathcart | Lionel | 1954 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Haulage, surface |
| Hall | Edward | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Killed by trip |
| Thistle | Silas | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| Dewan | James | 1944 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Struck by trip |
| Ransome | James H. | 1949 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| Roach | John | 1955 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| Doucett | Patrick | 1937 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Hit by trip |
| McDonald | John | 1939 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| Boone | John | 1942 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Struck by trip; 1 of 2 killed |
| Whalen | Emmanuel | 1943 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Tally boy; Crushed between box and loader (likely on surface) |
| Gillis | Henry | 1943 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Crushed between trip and rubbing rail |
| Oliver | William | 1944 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Struck by trip |