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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| McDonald | James | 1907 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 and No. 9 Surface plant | Boiler explosion; maybe 4th man killed in an explosion or is a separate explosion |
| Adey | Benjamin | 1907 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 and No. 9 Surface plant | Boiler explosion; 1 of 3 or 4 killed |
| McNeil | Angus | 1907 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 and No. 9 Surface plant | Boiler explosion; 1 of 3 or 4 killed |
| Philpot | Nicholas | 1907 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 and No. 9 Surface plant | Boiler explosion; 1 of 3 or 4 killed |
| Mason | Arthur | 1944 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Struck by trap door dislodged by trip |
| O'Connell | Patrick | 1948 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Explosives |
| Mitchell | Fred | 1957 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Fall of stone |
| Morgan | George | 1948 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Haulage |
| Curry | Duncan | 1957 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Fall of stone |
| Duder | Edward | 1960 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Fall in sump |
| Weeks | Archie | 1948 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Haulage |
| Cathcart | Gordon | 1950 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Fall of stone |
| McVicar | John | 1957 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Haulage |
| Conran | Andrew | 1960 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Fall of stone |
| Blake | William | 1952 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Methane explosion; 1 of 7 killed |
| Martel | James | 1958 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Construction |
| Bonar | William | 1952 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Methane explosion; 1 of 7 killed |
| Pittman | John | 1955 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Haulage |
| Martin | Henry | 1960 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Fall of stone |
| Kelloway | Kenneth | 1942 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Struck by box |
| Desmond | William | 1952 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Methane explosion; 1 of 7 killed |
| Sharpe | Arthur | 1963 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Fall of stone |
| Morrison | James | 1966 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Naturel Causes |
| Gabriel | Patrick | 1952 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Methane explosion; 1 of 7 killed |
| Keating | Fred | 1955 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Haulage |
| Allen | James | 1961 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Electrical |
| Lucus | Marcus | 1943 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Fall of stone |