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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ridgeway | George | 1915 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Fall of stone |
| Gibson | Harry | 1915 | Cumberland | Joggins | Haulage rope breaking |
| Cavasotte | Fernando | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of coal |
| Moffat | Clifford | 1915 | Cumberland | Minudie | Fall of stone |
| McDonald | Allan | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Fall of roof |
| Ford | Julian | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Killed between box and boom |
| O'Handley | John | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominon No. 11 | Killed between box and roof |
| Ballantyne | George | 1915 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Run over by a trip of coal |
| Saccrey | John W. | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 9 | Fall of roof |
| Chiasson | Elezare | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Pusher, killed by improperly spragged box |
| Robertson | E. | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 6 | Oiler, clothes caught in revolving shaft (on surface) |
| 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 |
| Casey | Percy A. | 1914 or 1915 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Killed by runaway boxes; 1 of 2 killed |
| 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 |
| Maquire | Bernard | 1914 | Pictou County | Vale | Struck by an empty trip that derailed |
| Brown | James | 1914 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Carbon monoxide after devastating explosion; 1 of 2 killed |
| MacKenzie | Lawrence | 1914 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Boiler explosion in surface plant; 1 of 7 killed |
| Taylor | Daniel | 1914 | Pictou County | Albion | Hit by a train |
| Taylor | George | 1914 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Boiler explosion in surface plant; 1 of 7 killed |
| Frye | John | 1914 | Pictou County | Albion | Riding a coal trip that derailed |
| Keating | Edward | 1914 | Inverness | Inverness | Cage struck timber, knocking roof down |
| Bond | Philip | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of stone |
| White | Thomas | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Sydney No. 4 (Scotia) | Fall of stone |
| Betts | William | 1914 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Boiler explosion in surface plant; 1 of 7 killed |
| Boviada | Demetris | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Crushed between boxes |
| Chiasson | Pat | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Killed by trip |
| Blackwood | Thomas | 1914 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Carbon monoxide after devastating explosion; 1 of 2 killed |
| Ferguson | A.T. | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Killed by a box |
| Chiasson | Pat | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Killed by trip |
| Kroput | John | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of stone |
| Jamieson | Alexander | 1914 | Pictou County | Albion | Killed by cage |
| Pomyea | Daragha | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 14 | Fall of roof |
| Pomyea | Daragha | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of roof |
| Jenson or Jamieson | Alex | 1914 | Pictou County | Albion | Run over by a box |
| Hacquoil | Alexander | 1914 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fatal injuries |
| O'Connor | John | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Fall of stone at longwall face |
| Connell | Frank | 1914 | Pictou County | Albion | Fall of coal |
| Sennio | Antonio | 1914 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Died in Halifax in 1914 |
| Gaskin | Thomas | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Fall of stone |
| Porter | James | 1914 | Cumberland | Black Diamond | Thawing Samsonite (possibly a powder brand) |
| 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 |
| Ryan | Frank | 1914 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Boiler explosion in surface plant; 1 of 7 killed |
| Lawlor | Richard | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Runaway box |
| McNeil | John M. | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal at face |
| Beaumeister | Otto | 1914 | Inverness | Inverness | Fall of coal |
| Tracey | William | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Killed by full trip |