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 |
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Burke | Frederick John | 1957 | Cumberland | Bayview | Fall of stone |
Townsend | Leonard | 1876 | Cumberland | Spring Hill Colliery Mine | Crushed by drum, fall of a gin |
McDonald | William | 1887 | Cumberland | Springhill | Fall of coal from face |
Campbell | Donald | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
Crawford | john | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
Hallet | Thomas | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
McFadden | Robert | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
McNutt | Charles | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
Nash | Charles | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
Sharples | James | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
Wry | Henry | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
Fraser | William K. | 1898 | Cumberland | Springhill Surface | Cause not recorded |
Elbridge | Clifford | 1904 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall in chute, smothered by coal |
LeBlanc | Tillman | 1909 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Haulage rope injury |
Gillespie | David | 1916 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Struck by cage |
Jones | Hezekiah | 1922 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall of stone and coal from face |
Brown | George D. | 1926 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall of stone |
Carter | Ralston | 1935 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Struck by full car on back slope |
Weatherbee | Lorne A. | 1942 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Struck by trip |
Pashkoski or Pasoshki | Alexander | 1946 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 | Killed by haulage |
Skelton or Skilton | Hollis T. | 1952 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Fall of stone |
Knowlton | Everett | 1954 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Fall of stone; 1 of 3 killed |
Clarke | Kenneth | 1956 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Electricity-fired coal dust explosion |
McLeod | Henry | 1956 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Electricity-fired coal dust explosion |
Bunton | Alexander | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Massive gas and coal dust explosioni |
Allen | Fidele | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
Legere | Alfred | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
McLeod | Frank | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
Ross | Robert | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
McMasters | Earl J. | 1969 | Cumberland | Springhill, Syndicate Mine or Springhill No. 1 | Struck by empty trip |
Patton | William | 1883 | Cumberland | Chignecto | Suffocated by carbonic acid (1 of 3 killed) |
Coleman | John H. | 1908 or 1909 | Cumberland | Joggins | Suffocated by smoke |
Arseneau | Alex | 1916 | Cumberland | Victoria | Fall of roof |
Soloman | David Allen | 1928 | Cumberland | Maple Leaf No. 4 | Run over by a full trip of boxes |
Hachey | William | 1932 | Cumberland | Maple Leaf No. 4 | Dust and gas explosion; 1 of 5 killed |
Hoeg | Jesse Havelock | 1959 | Cumberland | Cochran | Fall of stone |
McNeil | Henry | 1876 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | cause not recorded |
May | George | 1887 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fatally hurt |
Campbell | John D | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
Davis | Thomas | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
Hannager | Peter | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
McGillvary | William 2nd | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
McPhee | Neil | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
Nicholson | Malcolm | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
Sherlock | Robert A. | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
Armishaw | Herbert | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
Lowther | William | 1900 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Leg broken in fall of stone at working face |
Foster | Archie | 1904 | Cumberland | Aberdeen | Caught between box and chute; died on beaching bank |
Delaney | Douglas | 1909 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Killed by runaway box |
Knobi | Fred | 1916 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Fall of coal, died next day |