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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| McDonald | Alexander T. | 1918 | Inverness | Inverness | Struck by mine-car; died 10 days later |
| Wooden | John | 1918 | Pictou County | Greenwood | roof fall |
| Pettipas | Fred | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fall of top coal |
| Jordan | Norman | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Bastin or Baston | Andrew | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Works | Howard | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Pickerton | Thomas | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Locke | James | 1919 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Struck by piece of wood |
| McLeod | Daniel | 1919 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Struck by runaway box |
| McDougald | Stephen | 1919 | Cape Breton County | Dominion Coal Company shaft | Stone fell from wall |
| Bigley | John | 1919 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 9 | Killed by fall of stone |
| George | John | 1919 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of stone |
| McIntyre | Joseph | 1919 | Cape Breton County | Dominion 2 and 9 pityard (surface) | Jammed between wall and superintendent''s auto |
| Keith | Fred | 1919 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Overcome by gas, likely methane |
| Boutilier | Thomas | 1919 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 15 | Fall of stone |
| Smith | Albert | 1919 | Cape Breton County | Florence, on surface | Burnt at boiler doors, died 7 days later |
| Gunn | Stanley | 1919 | Pictou County | McGregor | Injuries sustained in the mine |
| Kipping | Thomas | 1919 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Jammed between empty trip |
| Thurbid | John | 1919 | Cape Breton County | Scotia No. 4 | Fall of stone |
| Pohoronz | Wasyl | 1919 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of coal |
| Brown | Leo | 1919 | Pictou County | Albion | Struck by a cage in a balance |
| Wood | Jasper E. or R. | 1919 | Cumberland | St. George | Fell down slope, died 1 day later |
| Main | William | 1919 | Cumberland | St. George | Struck by runaway box |
| Blue | Duncan | 1919 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Struck by runaway rake |
| Taylor | John B. | 1919 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Caught in fly wheel |
| Young | Ninian | 1919 | Inverness | Inverness | Injured by dynamite shot; died a day later. |
| Terris | Asa S. | 1919 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Run over by full box |
| Turner | Joseph | 1919 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall of coal |
| Rordenan | Alex | 1919 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 5 | Fall of stone |
| Gossens | Octav | 1920 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fall of coal |
| Love | Ernest | 1920 | Pictou County | Acadia No. 3 (Six-Foot) | Struck by a runaway box |
| Power | William | 1920 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fall of coal |
| Gillis | Simon D. | 1920 | Inverness | Inverness | Fall of rock |
| Spencer | George | 1920 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Run over by horse and loaded box |
| Kaspersky | Peter | 1920 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 9 | Fall of coal, died 17 days later |
| Hanrahan | Joseph | 1920 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Jammed between loaded box and boom |
| Boutilier | Angus | 1920 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Fall of roof |
| Fraser | Hiram | 1920 | Pictou County | Acadia No. 3 (Six-Foot) | Struck by railway car on surface |
| Christie | James | 1920 | Cape Breton County | Colonial No. 4, engine house | Caught in belt that operates hoist, lived 9 hrs |
| McDonald | Allan J. | 1920 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Struck on head by upright timber, died 3 days later |
| Cyr | William | 1920 | Pictou County | Drummond No. 5 (Intercolonial No. 5) | Run over by an empty box |
| Jackson | Aubrey | 1920 | Pictou County | Albion | Run over by an empty box |
| Witstanley | John T. | 1920 | Cape Breton County | Florence | Fall of coal |
| McDonald | Hugh | 1920 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Severed artery in foot |
| Edwards | Benjamin | 1920 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Electrocuted in power house |
| Jowett or Gowett | John Ernest | 1920 | Cumberland | Victoria | cause not recorded |
| Walker | Alexander | 1920 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal |
| McAloney | Robert L. | 1920 | Cumberland | Maple Leaf | Struck by runaway box, died 6 days later |
| McCormack | Stephen | 1920 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Dropped dead coming up the travelling-way |
| McDonald | Kenneth | 1920 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 11 | Crushed between box and pillar |