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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gibson | Harry | 1915 | Cumberland | Joggins | Haulage rope breaking |
| Moffat | Clifford | 1915 | Cumberland | Minudie | Fall of stone |
| Trente | Adam | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 9 | Killed by falling boom |
| Edwards | James | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of stone |
| Flavin | Edward | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 5 | Fall of stone |
| Gouthro | Servine | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 5 | Fall of stone |
| Anderson | Daniel | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Fall of stone |
| Lebonis | Andre | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Fall of stone |
| Barrett | Abe | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 9 | Fall of stone |
| Stewart | Daniel | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal |
| MacDonald | John | 1915 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Run over by a trip of coal |
| Dye | Charles | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 7 | Killed by cars on surface, in colliery yard |
| Degaust | Alex | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 7 | Fall of stone |
| Caulfield or Canfield | Peter | 1914 or 1915 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Killed by runaway boxes; 1 of 2 killed |
| McDonald | Murdock A. | 1914 or 1915 | Inverness | Inverness | Fell under moving coal boxes while getting on full rake |
| Casey | Percy A. | 1914 or 1915 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Killed by runaway boxes; 1 of 2 killed |
| Frye | John | 1914 | Pictou County | Albion | Riding a coal trip that derailed |
| Bond | Philip | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of stone |
| Hacquoil | Alexander | 1914 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fatal injuries |
| Boviada | Demetris | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Crushed between boxes |
| Betts | William | 1914 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Boiler explosion in surface plant; 1 of 7 killed |
| Sennio | Antonio | 1914 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Died in Halifax in 1914 |
| White | Thomas | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Sydney No. 4 (Scotia) | Fall of stone |
| Chiasson | Pat | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Killed by trip |
| Ferguson | A.T. | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Killed by a box |
| Blackwood | Thomas | 1914 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Carbon monoxide after devastating explosion; 1 of 2 killed |
| Kroput | John | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of stone |
| MacMillan | Daniel L | 1914 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Boiler explosion in surface plant; 1 of 7 killed |
| Chiasson | Pat | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Killed by trip |
| Pomyea | Daragha | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 14 | Fall of roof |
| Pomyea | Daragha | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of roof |
| O'Connor | John | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Fall of stone at longwall face |
| Cullen or Cullins | David | 1914 | Pictou County | McGregor | Suffocation in mine |
| Taylor | Daniel | 1914 | Pictou County | Albion | Hit by a train |
| Connell | Frank | 1914 | Pictou County | Albion | Fall of coal |
| Beaumeister | Otto | 1914 | Inverness | Inverness | Fall of coal |
| Josey | Emanuel | 1914 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Boiler explosion in surface plant; 1 of 7 killed |
| Gaskin | Thomas | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Fall of stone |
| Taylor | George | 1914 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Boiler explosion in surface plant; 1 of 7 killed |
| Leemore | Ferdinand | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 15 | Fall of stone |
| Zyales | Stainslaw | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 15 | Fall of stone |
| Conway | Isaac | 1914 | Pictou County | Albion | Fall of top coal |
| Lawlor | Richard | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Runaway box |
| MacKearney | Arthur | 1914 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Boiler explosion in surface plant; 1 of 7 killed |
| McNeil | John M. | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal at face |
| Tracey | William | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Killed by full trip |
| Holmes | Angus | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 22 | Fell, striking head on rail |
| Maquire | Bernard | 1914 | Pictou County | Vale | Struck by an empty trip that derailed |
| DeCoste | Bernard | 1914 | Inverness | Inverness | Fall of coal |
| Baldwin | Philip | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Fall of stone |