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.
Displaying page 29 of 50 pages (2497 entries).
| Surname |
Given Name(s) |
Year | County | Mine | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gleason | James | 1892 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines (Princess?) | Fell down shaft while working there |
| Tebo or Tebe | James | 1893 or 1894 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 slope | Full box struck prop from under boom |
| Shea | James | 1867 | Inverness | Port Hood | Crushed by machinery |
| Stevenson | James | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Napier | James | 1934 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 6 | Fall of stone |
| Devoe | James | 1924 | Cape Breton County | Florence | Killed by box on main deep |
| Lameaux | James | 1916 | Pictou County | Albion | Struck by a runaway box |
| Hibbs | James | 1922 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Struck by runaway car in deep |
| Stewart | James | 1934 | Cape Breton County | Colonial No. 1 | Struck by coal boxes |
| Dunsmuir | James | 1924 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Fall of stone |
| Walker | James | 1937 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Fall of stone |
| Geddes | James | 1953 | Pictou County | McBean | Haulage accident |
| Reeves | James | 1872 | Pictou County | Acadia | Fall of coal |
| Gillies or Gillis | James | 1883 | Pictou County | Vale | Drawbar broke, crash of runaway slope rake |
| Morrison | James | 1966 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Naturel Causes |
| Lawrence | James | 1935 | Pictou County | Albion | From injuries received a few months before |
| Riley | James | 1927 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Squeezed between boxes |
| Hand | James | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Dumphy | James | 1908 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of coal from face |
| Scully | James | 1924 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Carbon monoxide suffocation after explosion; 1 of 4 killed |
| Young | James | 1927 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Squeezed between prop and trip |
| Boates | James | 1941 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fall of coal |
| Stewart | James | 1906 | Pictou County | Albion | Struck by a rake |
| Hamilton | James | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Shot blew through on slant containing water, partly driven between main slope, drowned; 1 of 2 killed |
| Robbins | James | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Allen | James | 1961 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Electrical |
| Locke | James | 1919 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Struck by piece of wood |
| Webb | James | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Flynn | James | 1917 | Pictou County | Greenwood | Fall of stone |
| Ferguson | James | 1897 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 slope | Fall of roof while opening No. 1 slope |
| Lamond | James | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Sydney No. 3 (Florence) | Caught between box and prop |
| Conn | James | 1839 | Pictou County | Storr pit | Methane explosion; 1 of 2 killed |
| Mitchell | James | 1880 | Pictou County | Foord pit | Devastating methane explosion |
| Lennon | James | 1880 | Pictou County | Foord pit | Devastating methane explosion |
| McMullin | James | 1943 | Cape Breton County | Tomson | Injured while replacing derailed box |
| Lennon | James | 1926 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fall of stone |
| Porteous | James | 1916 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 14 | Killed between box and pillar |
| Edwards | James | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of stone |
| Edwards | James | 1950 | Cape Breton County | Florence | Haulage |
| Johnston | James | 1916 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 14 | Killed by trip |
| 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 |
| Shanahan | James | 1882 | Cape Breton County | Little Glace Bay | Fall of stone from roof |
| Campbell | James | 1958 | Cape Breton County | Four Star | Electrical |
| Campbell | James | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 7 | Fall of stone |
| Johnson | James | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| MacLeod | James | 1903 | Pictou County | Acadia | Died 15 February |
| Gillis | James | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |
| Bozzan | Jacob | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 9 | Fall of stone |
| Jacobi | Jacob | 1936 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Caught under riding rake |