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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Foley | Thomas | 1943 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Coal tank platform tilted, threw man down shaft; 1 of 4 killed being lifted in coal shaft |
| Muckle or Muckie | David | 1943 | Cumberland | Bayview | Run over by trip |
| Linkletter | Harris Karl | 1943 | Cumberland | Standard (Sweetcake) or Strathcona No.2 | Struck by stemming from shot hole |
| Gates | Charles E. | 1943 | Cumberland | Strathcona No. 2 | Fall of stone |
| Quigley | James | 1943 | Inverness | Inverness No. 3 | Crushed between engine drum and rope |
| Saunders | Fred | 1944 | Pictou County | Drummond (Intercolonial) No. 2 Scott slope | Fall of coal |
| McLeod | Thomas | 1944 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal and stone |
| Hart | Thomas | 1944 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Fall of stone |
| Doucette | Medric | 1944 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 24 | Fall of stone |
| Cherpack | John | 1944 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Runaway trip; 1 of 3 killed |
| MacKay | Earl | 1944 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Runaway trip; 1 of 3 killed |
| Parsons | James | 1944 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Runaway trip; 1 of 3 killed |
| Newman | George | 1944 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 | Struck by boom moved by coal scoop |
| Rushton | William A. | 1944 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall of coal |
| Caldwell | Charles J. | 1944 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Bump |
| Chapman | Neil D. | 1944 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Crushed under trip |
| Corkin | Thomas A. | 1944 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Fall of stone |
| Jacob or Jacobs | Louis L. | 1944 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Fall of stone |
| MacKay | Daniel L. | 1944 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Bump |
| Forrest | William | 1944 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall of stone |
| MacLeod | Duncan | 1944 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Fall of stone |
| Saltys | Joseph | 1944 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Strick by flying timber from tram |
| Roman | George | 1944 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Struck by box |
| Porter | Melburn Parker | 1944 | Cumberland | Standard (Sweetcake) or Strathcona No.2 | Fall of stone |
| Mason | Arthur | 1944 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Struck by trap door dislodged by trip |
| McInnis | Hugh | 1944 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 18 | Crushed between derailed box and timber |
| Dewan | James | 1944 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Struck by trip |
| Oliver | William | 1944 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Struck by trip |
| Coulier | Alfred | 1945 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Hit by a runaway box |
| MacKinnon | Angus | 1945 | Inverness | Inverness No. 3 | Fall of stone |
| McDonald | Allan | 1945 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 18 | Fall of stone; 1 of 2 killed |
| McMullin | Roderick | 1945 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 18 | Fall of stone; 1 of 2 killed |
| Treige | John | 1945 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 11 | Struck by level trip |
| Halliday | Charles | 1945 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Struck by rake |
| McIntyre | Rod | 1945 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Fall of stone |
| Seward | Peter | 1945 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 24 | Fall of stone |
| McDougall | Daniel R. | 1945 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall from bankhead (surface) |
| McMullin | John William | 1945 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 18 | Fall of stone |
| Luscombe | Edmund Clarence | 1945 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Caught between box and timber |
| Nicoloff | George | 1945 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Fall of coal |
| Porter | Thomas D. | 1945 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Struck by rake |
| Caverzan | Gaetano | 1945 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Haulage |
| McKinnon | Daniel S. | 1945 | Inverness | Inverness No. 3 | Fall of stone |
| Flemming | James E. | 1945 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fall of stone |
| Munro | Charles | 1945 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Crushed by full box of coal |
| Cobert | James | 1946 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Haulage |
| Jeffrey | Leonard | 1946 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Explosives |
| Campbell | Percy | 1946 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft Wash Plant | Injured putting up a door bar, died a week later |
| Devison | Hector | 1946 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Caught between box and stopping |
| Pashkoski or Pasoshki | Alexander | 1946 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 | Killed by haulage |