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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sedosky | Stephen | 1937 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Struck by box |
| Cherpack | John | 1944 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Runaway trip; 1 of 3 killed |
| McDonald | Daniel A. | 1925 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Killed by coal tipple on bankhead |
| Phalen | Edward | 1928 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Fall of stone |
| McDonald | Arch. B. | 1929 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Struck by a full box |
| MacKay | Earl | 1944 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Runaway trip; 1 of 3 killed |
| Browner | Thomas | 1946 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Mine machinery |
| Coffin | Louis | 1949 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Haulage |
| McKinnon | Laurence | 1955 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Haulage |
| Pace | Alexander W. | 1925 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Fall of stone |
| Snow | Albert Joseph | 1936 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Run over by trip |
| Peretta | Silvio | 1937 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Fall of coal |
| Parsons | James | 1944 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Runaway trip; 1 of 3 killed |
| Smeyers | Pierre | 1925 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Fall of stone |
| Saccary | Leo | 1943 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Undetermined |
| Boutilier | Fred | 1949 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Fall of stone |
| Gallivan | Joseph | 1952 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | 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 |
| Dominick | P. | 1906 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal from face |
| Rogers | Herbert | 1908 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal, died 5 days later |
| Fry | Peter | 1912 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of roof |
| Locke | James | 1919 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Struck by piece of wood |
| Lyons | Charles F. | 1922 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal from face, died 5 days later |
| Hickey | John | 1936 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of stone |
| Semenuk | Mike | 1940 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal |
| Briggs | George | 1946 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Bump (more than 2 miles offshore); 1 of 4 killed |
| Genter | Frank | 1906 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal from face |
| Gillis | Peter | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Live wire |
| McLeod | Daniel | 1919 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Struck by runaway box |
| Thompson | William | 1924 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of stone and coal |
| Karrel | James | 1939 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of stone |
| Connors | Thomas | 1942 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of stone |
| Roman | George | 1944 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Struck by box |
| MacKenzie | Norman J. | 1946 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Bump (more than 2 miles offshore); 1 of 4 killed |
| McVicar | Allen | 1906 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of stone from roof |
| Modesto | Antonio | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of stone |
| Haley | John V. | 1931 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Caught between car and timber |