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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conway | David | 1938 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Run over by a shunting engine on surface |
| MacLeod | Melvin | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Broken cable on riding rake; 1 of 21 killed |
| Campbell | John | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Broken cable on riding rake; 1 of 21 killed |
| Francis | James | 1938 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Struck by cage lever on surface; died 3 days later |
| McNeil | John D. | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Fall caused by trip |
| Lewis | Vincent | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 11 | Caught between tram and prop |
| Matheson | George | 1938 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Struck by a railway car on surface |
| Thistle | Silas | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| Fraser | John | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Drawing chocks out of a gob |
| Ince | William | 1938 | Pictou County | Acadia No. 7 (Moss mine) | Caught by fall of rock |
| Michaelites | Joseph | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Run over by trip |
| Gouthro | John J. | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Struck by empty trip |
| Pordorski or Prodorski | Peter | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Struck by trip |
| Hale | Milledge | 1938 | Pictou County | Drummond No. 5 (Intercolonial No. 5) | Struck by falling timber |
| McKenzie | Dan | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Caught between boxes and died next day |
| Marsh | Thomas | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Bras d'Or | Struck by trip |
| Royal | James | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Struck by tub of coal |
| Tabor | Fred E. | 1938 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall of stone |
| Fraser | John Clarence | 1938 | Inverness | Port Hood or Henderson | Fall of stone |
| McGregor | Murdock | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Broken cable on riding rake; 1 of 21 killed |
| Shuparski | Tony | 1938 | Pictou County | McGregor | dropped dead |
| Dixon | Richard | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Broken cable on riding rake; 1 of 21 killed |
| McPhee | Malcolm | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Broken cable on riding rake; 1 of 21 killed |
| MacDonald | William J. | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Broken cable on riding rake; 1 of 21 killed |
| Rollins | John | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Broken cable on riding rake; 1 of 21 killed |
| Morrison | Richard | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Broken cable on riding rake; 1 of 21 killed |
| Major | Joseph | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Broken cable on riding rake; 1 of 21 killed |
| Brown | George | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Broken cable on riding rake; 1 of 21 killed |
| Morrison | Joseph | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Broken cable on riding rake; 1 of 21 killed |
| Brown | Daniel | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Broken cable on riding rake; 1 of 21 killed |
| McPhee | Donald | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Broken cable on riding rake; 1 of 21 killed |
| MacDonald | William B. | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Broken cable on riding rake; 1 of 21 killed |
| Frampton | Rod | 1939 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Run over by a loaded box |
| Karrel | James | 1939 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of stone |
| Murray | Garfield | 1939 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of coal |
| Beaton | Philip | 1939 | Cape Breton County | Bras d'Or No. 1 | Caught between 2 cars, died 3 days later |
| Hogan | James | 1939 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Run over by riding rake, died 2 days later |
| McDonald | John | 1939 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| Harris | John | 1939 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 11 | Fall of stone |
| Jobes | John | 1939 | Cape Breton County | Florence | Fall of stone |
| Brown | David | 1939 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Struck by runaway box |
| Power | Andrew | 1939 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Fall of roof |
| O'Connor | Wilmot | 1939 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Fall of coal |
| Harte | Simon | 1939 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal |
| Ross | Edward | 1939 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall of rock, died 4 days later |
| Stephenhardt or Stephenson or Tyopenhart | Joseph | 1939 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Hit by overhead iron booms, died 3 days later |
| McIsaac | Dougald | 1939 | Inverness | Inverness | Jammed; died 2 days later |
| O'Brien | J. D. | 1939 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fall of coal from roof |
| Hubert | William | 1940 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Caught between 2 rail cars on surface |
| Burke | James J. | 1940 | Cumberland | Victoria | Undetermined |