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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cook | James I | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 7 | Fall of stone |
| Rose | James H. | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |
| Ransome | James H. | 1949 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| Johnson | James F. | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Copeland | James E. | 1954 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Bump; 1 of 5 killed |
| Flemming | James E. | 1945 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fall of stone |
| Matheson | James E. | 1971 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Haulage: Struck by a trip of material |
| McDonald | James E. | 1921 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Killed crossing over haulage rope in motion, caught by boxes |
| MacDonald | James D. | 1912 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fall of top coal at face of bord |
| Conway | James D. | 1880 | Pictou County | Foord pit | influx of water; 1 of 6 killed |
| Jobes | James D. | 1931 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Struck by box |
| Dakens | James A. | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Dewan | James | 1944 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Struck by trip |
| Scully | James | 1924 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Carbon monoxide suffocation after explosion; 1 of 4 killed |
| Stewart | James | 1906 | Pictou County | Albion | Struck by a rake |
| Kennedy | James | 1946 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 24 | Fall of roof |
| Aspinall | James | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Broken cable on riding rake; 1 of 21 killed |
| Chisholm | James | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| McNeil | James | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 7 | Fall of stone |
| Webb | James | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Haslam | James | 1885 | Cumberland | Syndicate | burned by explosion of powder; 1 of 3 killed |
| Mitchell | James | 1880 | Pictou County | Foord pit | Devastating methane explosion |
| McVey | James | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Hibbs | James | 1922 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Struck by runaway car in deep |
| Laite | James | 1927 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fall of coal from face |
| Dunphy | James | 1908 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of coal from face |
| Fortune | James | 1894 | Cape Breton County | International | Full trip on deep road |
| Ross | James | 1941 | Cape Breton County | Indian Cove Coal Company | Explosion; 1 of 2 killed |
| Jessoe | James | 1925 | Cape Breton County | Colonial No. 1 | Fall of stone |
| Petrie | James | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of roof |
| Cobert | James | 1946 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Haulage |
| Clark | James | 1927 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 5 | Fall of stone |
| Bishop | james | 1929 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal |
| Hocevar | James | 1927 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Fall of stone |
| Shanahan | James | 1882 | Cape Breton County | Little Glace Bay | Fall of stone from roof |
| McLellan | James | 1897 | Cape Breton County | Victoria | Fall of coal from pillar |
| Locke | James | 1919 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Struck by piece of wood |
| Messervey | James | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines No. 3 (Florence) | Methane explosion and coal dust; 1 of 8 killed |
| Wilson | James | 1902 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fatally injured by full rake of boxes |
| Lameaux | James | 1916 | Pictou County | Albion | Struck by a runaway box |
| Morris | James | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Geddes | James | 1953 | Pictou County | McBean | Haulage accident |
| Nicholson | James | 1922 | Cumberland | Minudie #2 | Powder ignited by cartridge explosion, died 12 days later; 1 of 2 killed |
| DeGrace | James | 1902 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Cause not recorded |
| Gillies or Gillis | James | 1883 | Pictou County | Vale | Drawbar broke, crash of runaway slope rake |
| Lawrence | James | 1935 | Pictou County | Albion | From injuries received a few months before |
| Mackey or Mackie | James | 1887 | Cumberland | Springhill | Leg broken; caught by cage in balance |
| Morrison | James | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Parsons | James | 1944 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Runaway trip; 1 of 3 killed |
| Carson | James | 1908 | Cumberland | Chignecto | Fell down balance |