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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blackwood | Fraser | 1928 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Struck by runaway box |
| Soloman | David Allen | 1928 | Cumberland | Maple Leaf No. 4 | Run over by a full trip of boxes |
| Jones | William | 1928 | Cape Breton County | Florence | Steel railing falling from car |
| Pendergrast | John | 1928 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Fall of stone |
| Alt | Herman | 1928 | Pictou County | Albion | Struck by wood thrown from circular saw (on the surface) |
| Brown | Michael | 1928 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 14 | Fall of coal |
| Murphy | John | 1928 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Crushed by runaway box |
| Greene | Mark | 1928 | Cape Breton County | Colonial No. 1 | Methane explosion |
| McDonald | John | 1928 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 24 | Fall of coal |
| O'Handley | Michael | 1928 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 14 | Caught between box and rib |
| McNeil | Charles | 1928 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Struck by empty runaway train |
| Johnstone | Archie | 1928 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Stoker; injured in boiler explosion |
| Dunlap | Robert | 1928 | Colchester | Kempton or Riversdale | Fell off tub in shaft |
| Phalen | Edward | 1928 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Fall of stone |
| Stephens | Wendall | 1928 | Cape Breton County | Dominion 1A | Caught in conveyor in boiler room |
| Hamilton | James Y. | 1928 | Pictou County | Drummond No. 5 (Intercolonial No. 5) | Fell head first while timbering the roof when staging collaped under fall of heavy coal lump |
| Penny | William | 1928 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall of coal |
| McDonald | John A. | 1928 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Injured by box |
| Molnar | Stephen | 1928 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Injured by timber |
| McDonad | Alex | 1928 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Fall of coal |
| Meagher | Milton | 1928 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall of stone |
| McKinnon | Murdoch | 1928 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 14 | Fall of coal |
| Lee | Charles | 1928 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 11 | Fall of coal |
| McDougall | John J. | 1928 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 14 | Hit by a small stone |
| Steele | Alex | 1928 | Cape Breton County | Florence | Fall of stone |
| Keigan | Patrick | 1928 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Fall of stone |
| Walsh | P. Joseph | 1929 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Struck by runaway box |
| Murphy | John | 1929 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fall of coal |
| Kendell | William | 1929 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| Waye | Samuel | 1929 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Killed by chain block |
| Bonner | Harry | 1929 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of stone |
| Guyaux | George | 1929 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| Dean | Thomas | 1929 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 11 | Fall of stone |
| Turner | David | 1929 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 11 | Squeezed between rib and box |
| Clarke | John | 1929 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 11 | Fall of stone |
| Bishop | james | 1929 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal |
| Nelson | William J. | 1929 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Caught between boom and car |
| Dash | Julian | 1929 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Killed by boxes |
| Burton | John Edward | 1929 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 6 | Injured by trip |
| Holland | Alexander | 1929 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal |
| Schwinghammer or Swinghammer | Fred | 1929 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 7 | Fall of stone |
| Strang | Thomas L. | 1929 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Donkey runner; caught in rope on drum |
| Reid | William | 1929 | Pictou County | McGregor | Struck on head by falling jackhammer; died 5 weeks later |
| Walker | George | 1929 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 11 | Fall of stone |
| Reid | Frank | 1929 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Knocked down steel boom |
| MacLean | John J. | 1929 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Electrocuted, fell onto live cable in pump room |
| Jones | Charles | 1929 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone, died 6-7 weeks later |
| McDonald | Arch. B. | 1929 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Struck by a full box |
| Gillespie | James | 1929 | Cape Breton County | Florence | Fall of stone |
| Prendergast | Thomas | 1929 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | End blew out of aftercooler |