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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jacques | Arthur | 1925 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Trip of boxes |
| Waye | Samuel | 1929 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Killed by chain block |
| Ralph | John | 1937 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal |
| Hawley or Holley | Edward | 1908 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Box knocked out prop and boom, stone fell on him |
| Assemmather | Fawl | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of stone |
| McNeil | John M. | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal at face |
| Beasley | Isaac | 1922 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of stone from roof in room |
| Bonner | Harry | 1929 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of stone |
| Bozeman | John | 1931 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal |
| O'Neil | Dan J. | 1946 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Bump (more than 2 miles offshore); 1 of 4 killed |
| MacDonald | John T. | 1951 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall in shaft |
| Davidson | Walter | 1906 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal from face |
| Johnson | J.D. | 1908 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal |
| Erunio | Parristto | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of stone |
| Tracey | William | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Killed by full trip |
| Stewart | Daniel | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal |
| Ford | Julian | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Killed between box and boom |
| McLeod | Angus | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Caught between motor and prop |
| McCormick | Joseph | 1918 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Struck by boom, died 4 days later |
| McLean | Edward | 1922 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of stone |
| Rose | James | 1928 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of stone |
| Griffiths | Wallace | 1946 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Bump (more than 2 miles offshore); 1 of 4 killed |
| 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 |
| 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 |