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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paul | Percy | 1911 or 1912 | Cumberland | Dominion No. 2, Surface | Smothered in culm car |
| Bulmer | Walter | 1911 or 1912 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Struck by ginney (aka jinney or jig) or prop |
| McLean | Dan | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fell under engine |
| McPhee | Thomas | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Jammed between box and roof, died a few hours later |
| Favier | Thomas | 1911 | Pictou County | Acadia | Crushed between rib and full box |
| Smart | John | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fell under trip of coal |
| Hawes | Thomas | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Fall of stone in pillar |
| Marsh | James | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Fall of rib coal |
| Hardcastle | Edward | 1911 | Cumberland | Great Northern | Fall of stone |
| Yacick | Thomas | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Fall of coal, head and back hurt, accidental death |
| McNeil | Neil S. | 1911 | Inverness | Inverness | Run over by balance cage, died 3 hours later |
| McNeil | James | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 7 | Fall of stone |
| Groves | Frank | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Shot blew through on slant containing water, partly driven between main slope, drowned; 1 of 2 killed |
| Ross | Alexander | 1911 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Struck by a rake |
| Spiccochi | Higo | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 14 or Dominion No. 1 | Fall of coal from face |
| Hamilton | James | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Shot blew through on slant containing water, partly driven between main slope, drowned; 1 of 2 killed |
| Aexter | Alex | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines No. 3 (Florence) | Explosion |
| Amey | Arthur | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines No. 3 (Florence) | Methane explosion and coal dust; 1 of 8 killed |
| Messervey | James | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines No. 3 (Florence) | Methane explosion and coal dust; 1 of 8 killed |
| Murphy | Brian | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines No. 3 (Florence) | Methane explosion and coal dust; 1 of 8 killed |
| Ferguson | Archie F. | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines No. 3 (Florence) | Methane explosion and coal dust; 1 of 8 killed |
| Parsons | Israel | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines No. 3 (Florence) | Methane explosion and coal dust; 1 of 8 killed |
| Reid | Eugene | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines No. 3 (Florence) | Methane explosion and coal dust; 1 of 8 killed |
| Wade or Mahoney | John | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines No. 3 (Florence) | Methane explosion and coal dust; 1 of 8 killed |
| Purchase | Harry | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines No. 3 (Florence) | Methane explosion and coal dust; 1 of 8 killed |
| Neal | John | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines No. 2 (Lloyd's Cove) | Struck by runaway box |
| McDonald | Ranald or Ronald | 1911 | Inverness | Inverness | Fall of coal; head crushed |
| Enion | Benjamin | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Sydney No. 3 (Florence) | Fall of coal from face |
| MacKenzie | Hugh | 1911 | Pictou County | Vale | Riding an empty trip that derailed |
| MacKenzie | H. M. | 1911 | Pictou County | Albion | Fall of coal at the face |
| Newcomb | William | 1911 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Killed by a fall of timber |
| Gilroy | Joseph | 1911 | Cumberland | Springhill | Jammed by cars |
| Brown | Robert | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Run over by trip |
| Moore | Arthur | 1911 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fell down shaft with a full box of coal |
| Kohusz | Wasye | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Caught between two boxes |
| Cibarro | Stephano | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Fall of stone |
| Hennessey | Joseph | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Fall of stone, leg injured |
| Cicchetto | Albert | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 14 | Fall of stone |
| MacDonald | A. R. | 1911 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Fell in front of a trip of coal |
| McKenzie | Stephen | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 14 | Struck by cage balance |
| Campbell | John | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Run over by full trip, arms and legs broken |
| Landry | Fidele D. | 1910 or 1938 | Cumberland | Maple Leaf No. 4 | Fall of stone |
| Bradwell | James | 1910 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Fall of stone |
| Johnson | Angus | 1910 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Jammed between coal hoppers at surface |
| Stevens | William | 1910 | Cumberland | Chignecto | Explosion |
| McDonald | M. | 1910 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Fall of stone |
| Leonard | Elmer | 1910 | Pictou County | Albion | Fall of coal |
| Wood | Arthur or Thomas W. | 1910 | Cumberland | Chignecto | Explosion |
| Alexander | Gust | 1910 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal off rib |
| Bonnell | Louis | 1910 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal at face |