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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kennedy | John | 1927 | Cape Breton County | Colonial | Electrocuted in logement |
| Fraser | John | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Burchell | John | 1877 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines (Princess) | Fell down shaft |
| Carnichael | John | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| McRichey | John | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Copan | John | 1947 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Caught by a haulage cable |
| McDonald | John | 1900 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Fall of stone at head of deep |
| McLeod | John | 1904 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Struck by motor |
| Mollish | John | 1916 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Fall of coal |
| McIntosh | John | 1934 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Fall of coal |
| Malloy | John | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Fall of roof coal |
| Cameron | John | 1962 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Haulage |
| McAulay | John | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Cann | John | 1891 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines (Princess?) | Killed by cage when descending pit |
| Seward | John | 1967 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 26 | Haulage: Run over by empty trip |
| Dunbar | John | 1904 | Pictou County | Albion | Run over by a rake |
| Campbell | John | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Broken cable on riding rake; 1 of 21 killed |
| Hickey | John | 1936 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of stone |
| Patten | John | 1941 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 11 | Runaway trip |
| Burbine | John | 1913 | Cumberland | Joggins | Runaway boxes |
| MacKenzie | John | 1963 | Pictou County | McBean | Labourer, killed underground |
| Morrison | John | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Fall of stone in pillars |
| Horn | John | 1900 | Cape Breton County | Reserve | Fall of coal whilst drawing pillars; 1 of 2 killed |
| Clarke | John | 1929 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 11 | Fall of stone |
| Savage | John | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Nicholson | John | 1881 | Pictou County | Vale | Caught between moving rake & door |
| MacDonald | John | 1880 | Pictou County | Foord pit | Devastating methane explosion |
| McDonald | John | 1896 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines (Princess?) | Caught between full trip and prop |
| Crawford | John | 1880 | Pictou County | Foord pit | Devastating methane explosion |
| McDonald | John | 1943 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| Campbell | John | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Run over by full trip, arms and legs broken |
| Josso | John | 1891 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines (Princess?) | Fall of coal in room |
| Gould | John | 1952 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Methane explosion; 1 of 7 killed |
| Nicholson | John | 1883 | Pictou County | Vale | Drawbar broke, crash of runaway slope rake |
| Timmons | John | 1867 | Cape Breton County | Collins | Fall of coal; 1 of 2 killed |
| Scully or Soully | John | 1885 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 | Run over by cage |
| Salon | John | 1959 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 18 | Haulage |
| Stewart | John | 1936 | Cape Breton County | Colonial | Struck by runaway trip |
| Morrison | John | 1906 | Cape Breton County | Reserve | Fatally injured between boxes on slope |
| MacLean | John | 1866 | Pictou County | Dalhousie pit | Fall of coal |
| Connors | John | 1910 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Run over by motor, died a few hours after |
| Bowens | John | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| McDonald | John | 1892 | Cape Breton County | Reserve | Fall of loose coal from face of room |
| Dunn | John | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Hudson or Hodgeson | John | 1883 | Cumberland | Chignecto | Suffocated by carbonic acid (1 of 3 killed) |
| Bigley | John | 1919 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 9 | Killed by fall of stone |
| MacDougall | John | 1927 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of roof, died almost 6 months later |
| Curran | John | 1923 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal from face of room |
| Roach | John | 1900 | Cape Breton County | Reserve | Killed at face of room while loading |
| Burrows | John | 1883 | Cumberland | Chignecto | Suffocated by carbonic acid (1 of 3 killed) |