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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turner | James | 1924 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Fall of stone |
| Turner | George | 1886 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall of top coal |
| Turner | Alfred | 1921 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Struck by horse; in falling pick stabbed abdomen |
| Turner | James | 1880 | Pictou County | Acadia | Fall of coal |
| Turner | David | 1929 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 11 | Squeezed between rib and box |
| Turner | Joseph | 1919 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall of coal |
| Turner | William H. | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Turnbull | William | 1873 | Pictou County | Vale | Under a falling derrick |
| Turnbull | William | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| Trevison | Mario | 1912 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of stone |
| Trente | Adam | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 9 | Killed by falling boom |
| Tremblett | Phillip | 1949 | Cape Breton County | Greener | Haulage |
| Treige | John | 1945 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 11 | Struck by level trip |
| Tracey | William | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Killed by full trip |
| Townsend | Leonard | 1876 | Cumberland | Spring Hill Colliery Mine | Crushed by drum, fall of a gin |
| Tower | William H. | 1956 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Electricity-fired coal dust explosion |
| Tower | Thomas | 1885 | Cumberland | Syndicate | burned by explosion of powder; 1 of 3 killed |
| Toomey | Joseph | 1918 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Caught by full box |
| Tomshaniski | Samuel | 1934 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fall of stone or coal from the roof |
| Tomkins | Michael | 1949 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Haulage |
| Todd | Matther | 1941 | Cape Breton County | Bras d'Or | Fall of stone |
| Tobin | Michael | 1924 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Between full box and timber |
| Tobie or Tobin | Frank | 1958 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 26 | Fall of stone |
| Tipping | Royal Preston | 1940 | Cumberland | Victoria No. 4 (Bright Light Mine) | Injuries from collision of empty boxes |
| Timmons | John | 1867 | Cape Breton County | Collins | Fall of coal; 1 of 2 killed |
| Timmons | Peter | 1867 | Cape Breton County | Collins | Fall of coal; 1 of 2 killed |
| Tighe | John (boy) | 1966 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 17 (old Victoria) | Methane inhalation; 1 of 2 cousins who went down old slope |
| Tighe | Danny (boy) | 1966 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 17 (old Victoria) | Methane inhalation; 1 of 2 cousins who went down old slope |
| Tighe | Alan | 1979 | Cape Breton County | Lingan | Accident at a trip at a landing underground |
| Thurbid | John | 1919 | Cape Breton County | Scotia No. 4 | Fall of stone |
| Thorne | Wesley | 1959 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Haulage |
| Thompson | Melvin | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Thompson | William | 1924 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of stone and coal |
| Thomas | Lewis | 1880 | Pictou County | Foord pit | Devastating methane explosion |
| Thistle | George | 1901 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Killed by runaway wagon from pit bottom |
| Thistle | Silas | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| Thibideau or Thibodeau | Godfrey | 1918 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Jammed between props |
| Theriault | Wilfred | 1916 | Cape Breton County | Sydney No. 4 (Scotia) | Killed by shot blowing through pillar |
| Terris | William R. | 1952 | Pictou County | McGregor | Killed by haulage |
| Terris | Asa S. | 1919 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Run over by full box |
| Terrio or Terris | Samuel | 1918 | Cumberland | Joggins | 2 runaway cars, died 2 days later |
| Teichman or Tiechman | Herman | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |
| Teed | Henry | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| Tebo or Tebe | James | 1893 or 1894 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 slope | Full box struck prop from under boom |
| Taylor | John | 1873 | Pictou County | Vale | Fall with tub in slope |
| Taylor | Henry | 1912 | Pictou County | Acadia | Knocked down by horse and run over by full trip |
| Taylor | Daniel | 1914 | Pictou County | Albion | Hit by a train |
| Taylor | John | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Broken cable on riding rake; 1 of 21 killed |
| Taylor | George | 1914 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Boiler explosion in surface plant; 1 of 7 killed |
| Taylor | John B. | 1919 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Caught in fly wheel |