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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Bennett | Elijah | 1903 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fatally injured, died an hout later |
| Prindle | Joe | 1906 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal from face |
| Neunann | Gottleip | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal from rib |
| Pastusek | Joseph | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Jammed between box and prop |
| McNeil | Anthony | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Jammed between box and prop, died next day |
| Edwards | Benjamin | 1920 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Electrocuted in power house |
| McNeil | Roderick X. | 1923 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal from face of room |
| Shaw | Elias | 1926 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Scalded by steam |
| Bishop | james | 1929 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal |
| Batten | Joseph P. | 1941 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of stone |
| McDougall | Daniel R. | 1945 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall from bankhead (surface) |
| Blue | John M. | 1903 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Caught under descending cage |
| Nicseptote | Carmian | 1912 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of roof |
| Lukovitch | Stanis | 1916 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal, died 6 days later |
| George | John | 1919 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of stone |
| Walker | Alexander | 1920 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal |
| Murphy | John | 1928 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Crushed by runaway box |
| Dash | Julian | 1929 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Killed by boxes |
| Clarke | John G. | 1932 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal |