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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MacKay | Martin | 1931 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Heart attack in act of getting on riding rake |
| Hussey | John | 1931 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal and roof |
| McIsaac | Angus | 1931 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| Arsenault | John | 1931 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 14 | Caught between box and prop |
| Waye | Daniel | 1931 | Cape Breton County | Florence | Fall of coal from face |
| Mazur | John | 1931 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fall of Coal |
| Vance | Alexander | 1931 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Squeezed between two boxes |
| McCallum | William | 1931 | Cumberland | Victoria No. 4 (Bright Light Mine) | Went over surface dump with car |
| Yorke | Eugene I. | 1932 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 7 | Fall of stone on Longwall |
| Vacheresse | Albert | 1932 | Pictou County | McGregor | Fall of coal |
| Boudreau | Daniel J. | 1932 | Cumberland | Maple Leaf No. 4 | Dust and gas explosion; 1 of 5 killed |
| Hachey | William | 1932 | Cumberland | Maple Leaf No. 4 | Dust and gas explosion; 1 of 5 killed |
| LeBlanc | Charles F. | 1932 | Cumberland | Maple Leaf No. 4 | Dust and gas explosion; 1 of 5 killed |
| LeBlanc | Henry J. | 1932 | Cumberland | Maple Leaf No. 4 | Dust and gas explosion; 1 of 5 killed |
| Murray | Ezra G. | 1932 | Cumberland | Maple Leaf No. 4 | Dust and gas explosion; 1 of 5 killed |
| Lonergan | Michael | 1932 | Pictou County | Albion | Fell over a bench of coal |
| Barclay | Thomas | 1932 | Pictou County | Acadia No. 3 (Six-Foot) | Fall of coal |
| Rector | Ruben | 1932 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fall of coal |
| Arsenault | Arsene | 1932 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 14 | Caught between trip and prop |
| McPherson | Malcolm I. | 1932 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Struck by box |
| Moroletto | Albino | 1932 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 24 | Blood poisoning (possibly cut underground) |
| Conn | Leo | 1932 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 11 | Fall of stone |
| Angelo | Michael | 1932 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 11 | Fall of stone |
| Clarke | John G. | 1932 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal |
| Roach or Roche | James Sr. | 1932 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fall of coal |
| Dykens | Elmer W. or Elmmar | 1932 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall of stone |
| McDonald | Henry | 1933 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Kicked by a horse |
| McNeil | Neil | 1933 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 11 | Burned by electricity |
| McLeod | Alex | 1933 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Run over by trip |
| Gunn | Dan | 1933 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Fall of stone |
| Grycorn | John | 1933 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Fall of stone |
| Perry | Moses | 1933 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Fall of stone |
| MacDonald or Greenwood | William A. | 1933 | Pictou County | Milford | Fall of stone |
| Wright | William | 1933 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Asphixiated by methane gas |
| Stanislaw | Edward | 1933 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Fall of coal |
| Kavanaugh | Michael | 1933 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Overcome by gas |
| Chiasson | Leo | 1933 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Struck by a trip |
| MacQueen | Donald John | 1933 | Cape Breton County | Sullivan (Indian Cove) | Runaway Box |
| Zusic or Zusie | Thomas | 1933 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fall of coal |
| McInnis | Michael J. | 1933 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Struck by a runaway empty trip |
| Lamb | Herbert | 1934 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Collided with turbine in power house |
| Morrison | Daniel J. | 1934 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Struck by a man-rake |
| Wheelicker | George | 1934 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Fall from roof |
| Kutzyk | Matthew | 1934 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal |
| McDonald | Ronald H. | 1934 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12, Surface | Fell while working on bankhead machinery |
| Brown | Murdock | 1934 | Pictou County | Drummond (Intercolonial) No. 2 Scott slope | Struck on head when taking coal to chute |
| McDonald | Daniel O. | 1934 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Fall of stone |
| MacDougall | Peter | 1934 | Inverness | Inverness No. 1 | Gas explosion |
| Wilson | Henry J. | 1934 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Struck on head by stone |
| Fraser | Angus | 1934 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Struck by a rake on the slope |