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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Borden | Joseph | 1922 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fall of stone and coal |
| Copan | John | 1947 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Caught by a haulage cable |
| Ferguson | Henry | 1930 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Struck by an empty trip |
| Jennings | Stanley | 1917 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Jammed between a box and a prop |
| Keddy | Wallace | 1942 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fall of stone |
| Morrison | James | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Paris | Norman | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Walsh | John D. | 1924 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Carbon monoxide suffocation after explosion; 1 of 4 killed |
| Works | Howard | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Beaton | Alexander | 1935 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Shot blew back exploding methane and coal dust; 1 of 7 killed; asphixiation by carbon monoxide |
| Bortniak | Egnate | 1935 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Shot blew back exploding methane and coal dust; 1 of 7 killed |
| Clark | Richard | 1935 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Shot blew back exploding methane and coal dust; 1 of 7 killed |
| Cossman | Isadore | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Gallant | Frank | 1909 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Driving a full trip & killed by falling timber |
| Hanuse | Alfred | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Keith | Fred | 1919 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Overcome by gas, likely methane |
| LeBlanc | Alex | 1927 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Crushed: 2 runaway boxes hit box he was lifting |
| MacDonald | James D. | 1912 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fall of top coal at face of bord |
| Myers | William | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Partner | William | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Wright | William | 1933 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Asphixiated by methane gas |
| Bosman or Bossman | Andrew | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Coulier | Alfred | 1945 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Hit by a runaway box |
| Hanuse | Cammile | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Luddington | Truman | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| MacLean | John J. | 1929 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Electrocuted, fell onto live cable in pump room |
| Nacas | Wentzell | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Sloan | Dan | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Bossman or Bosman | Edward | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Dunbar | W. Sr | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Fleming | Ross | 1935 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Shot blew back exploding methane and coal dust; 1 of 7 killed |
| Lennon | James | 1926 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fall of stone |
| Lussem or Lussen | August | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| McPherson | Lemuel | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Passino | Lucien or Lucino | 1916 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fall of coal |
| Thompson | Melvin | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Crawford | Edward | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Debodt | Joseph | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Johnson | James F. | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Kennedy | Mark | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Luther | Isaac | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| MacDonald | Allan | 1937 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Buried beneath fall of stone |
| Martin | George | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Pembroke | Michael | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Rector | Ruben | 1932 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fall of coal |
| Sampler | Samuel Jr. | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Smillie | Thomas | 1941 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Struck by a haulage rope |
| Tomshaniski | Samuel | 1934 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fall of stone or coal from the roof |
| Zomoskie | Peter | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Flemming | James E. | 1945 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fall of stone |