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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Karrel | James | 1939 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of stone |
| McKenzie | Hugh A. | 1940 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Fall of stone |
| Connors | Thomas | 1942 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of stone |
| Cathcart | Michael | 1942 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Struck by box |
| McDonald | John | 1943 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| Roman | George | 1944 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Struck by box |
| McIntyre | Rod | 1945 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Fall of stone |
| MacKenzie | Norman J. | 1946 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Bump (more than 2 miles offshore); 1 of 4 killed |
| McIsaac | James | 1948 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Haulage |
| Hayes | Matthew | 1949 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Haulage |
| Raggar | Max | 1951 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 18 | Fall of stone |
| Sampson | William | 1953 | Cape Breton County | Florence | Haulage |
| McKinnon | Colin | 1954 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 18 | Haulage |
| Vickers | Leonard | 1956 | Cape Breton County | Franklin | Fall of stone |
| Bates | Willis | 1957 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Haulage |
| Boyd | Clarence | 1959 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Fall of stone |
| Young | Daniel | 1960 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Fall of stone |
| Hines | Chesley | 1963 | Cape Breton County | Electrical Dept, DOSCO | Miscellaneous |
| Kelloway | William | 1965 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Haulage: Struck by box |
| White | Wallace | 1968 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 12 | Haulage: Struck by arch boom |
| MacLean | Lester | 1971 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 12 | Natural Causes |
| Young | Michael F. | 1979 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Methane explosion, sparked by coal shearer hitting stone; 1 of 12 killed |
| Kelly | Thomas | 1984 | Cape Breton County | Lingan | Heart Attack |
| Barcey | Clement | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Benoit | Bennie Joseph | 1992 | Pictou County | Westray | Devastating methane and coal dust explosion |
| Breen | Michael | 1898 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Rock fall |
| Cameron | Alexander | 1888 | Pictou County | English Slopes (abandoned) | Overground as a boiler was being lowered |
| Carr | John | 1880 | Pictou County | Foord pit | Devastating methane explosion |
| Collin | Andrew | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Cummings | Hector | 1874 | Pictou County | Vale | Crash of runaway rake on main slope |
| Delmouth | Arthur | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Dunn | Philip | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Flinn or Flynn | Garnett | 1883 | Pictou County | Vale | Fall of coal |
| Fraser | Albert | 1890 | Pictou County | Black Diamond | Riding on a coal trip which jumped track |
| Gillis | Peter | 1884 | Pictou County | Acadia | Fall of coal |
| Hale | Joseph W. | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Hayes | Norman | 1913 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Struck by hoisting cage on balance |
| Hubert | William | 1940 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Caught between 2 rail cars on surface |
| Johnson | Eugene William | 1992 | Pictou County | Westray | Devastating methane and coal dust explosion |
| Lackie or Lackey | James | 1925 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fall of coal from roof of a pillar; 1 of 2 killed |
| Lewis | William | 1880 | Pictou County | Foord pit | Devastating methane explosion |
| Lycom | Charles | 1880 | Pictou County | Foord pit | influx of water; 1 of 6 killed |
| MacEachern | John | 1885 | Pictou County | Vale | Devastating methane explosion |
| MacKenzie | Hugh | 1911 | Pictou County | Vale | Riding an empty trip that derailed |
| MacLeod | unknown | 1905 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fall of stone from shaft wall being excavated as they were sinking the shaft |
| Martin | Glenn David | 1992 | Pictou County | Westray | Devastating methane and coal dust explosion |
| McDonald | Murdock | 1880 | Pictou County | Foord pit | Devastating methane explosion |
| McInnis | Peter | 1880 | Pictou County | Foord pit | Devastating methane explosion |
| McLellan | John A. | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| McRichey | John | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |