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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shannon | George "Happy" | 1921 | Cumberland | Joggins | Electrocuted by shock from cable on pavement |
| Bond | George | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Head | George | 1955 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Fall of stone |
| Smith | George | 1923 | Cumberland | Springhill Surface | Cause not recorded |
| Martin | George | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Thistle | George | 1901 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Killed by runaway wagon from pit bottom |
| McWhirter | George | 1935 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Fall of stone |
| Kitely | George | 1909 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Fall of stone |
| Mouland | George | 1956 | Cape Breton County | Florence | Fall |
| Matheson | George | 1938 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Struck by a railway car on surface |
| Stewart | George | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Briggs | George | 1946 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Bump (more than 2 miles offshore); 1 of 4 killed |
| Burns | George | 1907 | Cape Breton County | Sydney No. 5 (Queen) | Full box ran over him on main level |
| Mootery | George | 1904 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Struck by runaway boxes |
| Raus | George | 1909 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Iinjured by runaway box, died next day |
| Roman | George | 1944 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Struck by box |
| Hale | George | 1956 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Killed by haulage |
| Munroe | George | 1992 | Pictou County | Westray | Devastating methane and coal dust explosion |
| Beaton | George | 1930 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Fall of stone |
| Wood | George | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Delaney | George | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |
| Ridgeway | George | 1915 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Fall of stone |
| Domokosch | George | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |
| Evans | George | 1899 | Cape Breton County | Reserve | Fall of coal from face of room |
| Wheelicker | George | 1934 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Fall from roof |
| Bowran | George | 1923 | Pictou County | Albion | Caught and crushed by screening machinery |
| Hopkins | George | 1892 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 | Fall of coal from working face |
| Carey | George | 1947 | Cape Breton County | Florence | Bankhead (surface) |
| Fraser | George | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |
| Neal | George | 1921 | Cape Breton County | Jubilee, Sydney Mines | Fall down shaft |
| Long | George | 1892 | Cape Breton County | Victoria | Scalded by boiler explosion, died 9 days later 1 of 3 killed |
| Wilson | George | 1935 | Pictou County | Drummond (Intercolonial) No. 2 Scott slope | Fall of coal |
| Sawyer | George | 1908 or 1909 | Cumberland | Joggins | Suffocated by smoke |
| McPhee | George | 1934 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Struck by full trip |
| Guyaux | George | 1929 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| Bratcher | George | 1907 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Suffocated by gas |
| Redpath | George | 1858 | Pictou County | Cage pit | Methane explosion; 1 of 2 killed |
| Bryne | George | 1923 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Crushed between rail cars on surface |
| Martin | George | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Ballantyne | George | 1915 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Run over by a trip of coal |
| Taylor | George | 1914 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Boiler explosion in surface plant; 1 of 7 killed |
| Edwards | George | 1921 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 11 | Fall of stone from oof |
| Turner | George | 1886 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall of top coal |
| Christopher | George | 1879 | Pictou County | Vale | Rope broke while on loaded tubs |
| Bishop | George | 1900 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Stone fell on him down shaft during sinking |
| Chapman | George | 1897 | Cumberland | Springhill Surface | Cause not recorded |
| Newman | George | 1944 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 | Struck by boom moved by coal scoop |
| Burney | George | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Morgan | George | 1948 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Haulage |
| Paul | George | 1937 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of coal |