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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flemming | William | 1907 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Caught between box and boom |
| Aird | Finlay | 1907 | Inverness | Inverness | Fell from riding rake on main slope |
| McLean | D. | 1907 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of stone |
| Johnston | James | 1908 | Cape Breton County | Reserve | Fatally injured by air pipe bursting, died a month later |
| Beaton | Malcolm | 1908 | Inverness | Port Hood | Explosion on No. 3 level south; 1 of 10 killed |
| McIntosh | Dan | 1908 | Cape Breton County | Sydney & Louisburg Railway (Mine)? | Killed by express train, Glace Bay Crossing |
| Baxendale | Ellis | 1908 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines (Princess) | Fall of stone |
| D'Orsay | John | 1908 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines (Princess) | Overwind man-shaft cage; 1of 2 killed |
| McDonald | A. R. | 1908 | Inverness | Port Hood | Explosion on No. 3 level south; 1 of 10 killed |
| Stewart | Malcolm | 1908 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines (Princess) | Overwind man-shaft cage; 1of 2 killed |
| Green | Frank | 1908 | Pictou County | Albion | Struck by a box on balance |
| Campbell | John | 1908 | Inverness | Port Hood | Explosion on No. 3 level south; 1 of 10 killed |
| McDonald | D. R. | 1908 | Inverness | Port Hood | Explosion on No. 3 level south; 1 of 10 killed |
| Carson | James | 1908 | Cumberland | Chignecto | Fell down balance |
| Williamson | James | 1908 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines (Princess) | Fall of coal |
| Young | Thomas | 1908 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines (Princess) | Struck by runaway box |
| MacLeod | Neil | 1908 | Cape Breton County | Sydney No. 5 (Queen) | Fall of stone |
| Bartlett | John C. | 1908 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of coal |
| Dumphy | James | 1908 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of coal from face |
| Davidson | Adam | 1908 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Fell into chute |
| Child | 1908 | Cape Breton County | Caledonia | Polish child, age 2; killed by cars on the surface | |
| Gillis | Dan A. | 1908 | Inverness | Inverness | Fall of coal and rock in pillars |
| Girdinetti | G. | 1908 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of coal from face |
| McKenzie | William | 1908 | Inverness | Port Hood | Explosion on No. 3 level south; 1 of 10 killed |
| Jordan | Percy or Perdy | 1908 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Run over by rake |
| Gillis | Lauchlin | 1908 | Inverness | Port Hood | Explosion on No. 3 level south; 1 of 10 killed |
| McNeil | Michael A. | 1908 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of coal and stone |
| Ripley | Edward | 1908 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Fell into chute |
| Hawley or Holley | Edward | 1908 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Box knocked out prop and boom, stone fell on him |
| Jones | Harry | 1908 | Inverness | Inverness | Fall of stone and coal, No 7 balance, No 5 E level |
| Johnson | J.D. | 1908 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal |
| Dunphy | James | 1908 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of coal from face |
| Rogers | Herbert | 1908 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal, died 5 days later |
| McLean | D.A. | 1908 | Inverness | Inverness | Fall of stone from roof in tunnel to 13-foot seam |
| Lee | John | 1908 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 3 | Fall of stone |
| Ladime | (Bulgarian) Unknown | 1908 | Inverness | Port Hood | Explosion on No. 3 level south; 1 of 10 killed |
| McDonald | J.A. | 1908 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 3 | Fall of stone |
| Lamby | (Bulgarian) Unknown | 1908 | Inverness | Port Hood | Explosion on No. 3 level south; 1 of 10 killed |
| Clarke | Robert | 1908 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Full trip pulled through bankhead by windup on main hoist drum |
| McPherson | Neil | 1908 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 6 | Killed by runaway boxes |
| Lambyi | (Bulgarian) Unknown | 1908 | Inverness | Port Hood | Explosion on No. 3 level south; 1 of 10 killed |
| Nicholson | D.J. | 1908 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 6 | Leg crushed between full box and empty trip, died next day |
| Snow | William | 1908 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 6 | Fall of stone |
| McMaster | D. | 1908 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Fall of coal |
| Morgan | Frank | 1908 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 8 | Killed by live wire |
| Churchill | Joseph | 1908 | Cape Breton County | Emery Mine | Fell into Emery shaft |
| McDonald | Dan | 1908 | Cape Breton County | Hub | Fatal injury: pelvis broken in fall of stone |
| Powelle | (Bulgarian) Unknown | 1908 | Inverness | Port Hood | Explosion on No. 3 level south; 1 of 10 killed |
| McInnis | John | 1908 | Cape Breton County | International | Fall of stone |
| Sawyer | George | 1908 or 1909 | Cumberland | Joggins | Suffocated by smoke |