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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tighe | Danny (boy) | 1966 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 17 (old Victoria) | Methane inhalation; 1 of 2 cousins who went down old slope |
| McMullin | Roderick | 1945 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 18 | Fall of stone; 1 of 2 killed |
| Kennedy | Archie | 1955 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 18 | Fall of stone |
| Salon | John | 1959 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 18 | Haulage |
| Raggar | Max | 1951 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 18 | Fall of stone |
| McKinnon | Colin | 1954 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 18 | Haulage |
| MacLean | John | 1953 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 18 | Haulage |
| MacDonald | Robert C. | 1954 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 18 | Fall of stone |
| Lamey | Joseph | 1943 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 18 | Fall of stone |
| McInnis | Hugh | 1944 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 18 | Crushed between derailed box and timber |
| Farrell | Lawrence | 1956 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 18 | Gas asphixiation; 1 of 2 killed |
| MacNeil | John A. | 1963 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 18 | Haulage |
| McMullin | John William | 1945 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 18 | Fall of stone |
| McDonald | Wilfred | 1952 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 18 | Haulage, surface |
| Gaul | Patrick | 1956 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 18 | Gas asphixiation; 1 of 2 killed |
| McLeod | Archie | 1959 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 18 | Fall of stone |
| Sutherland | David | 1958 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 18 | Haulage |
| Currie | John F. | 1942 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 18 | Struck by trip |
| McDonald | Allan | 1945 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 18 | Fall of stone; 1 of 2 killed |
| MacIsaac | John A. | 1951 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 18A | Haulage |
| Driscol or Driscoll | William | 1926 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Slipped from car, wheels passed over him |
| Salcon | Trifon | 1946 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Haulage |
| Melnick | Steve | 1948 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Haulage |
| Ferguson | Robert | 1954 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Haulage |
| Hogan | Cornelius | 1964 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Fall of stone |
| Walsh | P. Joseph | 1929 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Struck by runaway box |
| Cirotto | Giovanni | 1940 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Fall of stone |
| McIntyre | Donald | 1941 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Fall of stone |
| Gouthro | John W. | 1942 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Struck by trip |
| Bennett | Henry | 1926 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Falling boom |
| Vine | Charles | 1937 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Fall of coal |
| McLean | Henry | 1941 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Fall of stone |
| Goldie | Peter | 1948 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Haulage |
| Rose | John | 1949 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Fall of stone |
| McDonald | Malcolm | 1926 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Kicked by a horse |
| McPherson | Malcolm I. | 1932 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Struck by box |
| MacNeil | Malcolm P. | 1934 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Fall of stone |
| McGillivray | John | 1953 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Haulage |
| Skinner | Richard | 1925 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Fall of stone |
| Donovan | Edward | 1931 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Fall of coal |
| McIntosh | John | 1934 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Fall of coal |
| Cathcart | Michael | 1942 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Struck by box |
| McIntyre | Rod | 1945 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Fall of stone |
| Boone | Adrian | 1934 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Found dead on haulageway |
| McNeil | Peter | 1937 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Fall of stone |
| McNeil | John D. | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Fall caused by trip |
| Finlayson | Charles | 1942 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Struck by trip |
| Brown | Walter | 1934 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Struck by a runaway trip |
| Lynk | Fred | 1954 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Haulage |
| Wells | Horace | 1923 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Fall of stone |