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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| McDonald | Allan | 1922 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 9 | Fall of stone |
| McNeil | Roderick X. | 1923 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal from face of room |
| Dwyer | Thomas | 1924 | Cape Breton County | Florence | Fall of coal |
| Shaw | Elias | 1926 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Scalded by steam |
| McKenzie | Dan | 1926 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Struck by rake |
| Hocevar | James | 1927 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Fall of stone |
| Brown | Michael | 1928 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 14 | Fall of coal |
| Bishop | james | 1929 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal |
| Snellgrove | James | 1930 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Painter; injured by ventilating fan |
| McKenzie | John H. | 1931 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 14 | Run over by trip |
| Angelo | Michael | 1932 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 11 | Fall of stone |
| Brown | Walter | 1934 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Struck by a runaway trip |
| Clark | Edward | 1934 | Cape Breton County | Colonial No. 1 | Struck by trip |
| Jacobi | Jacob | 1936 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Caught under riding rake |
| Paul | George | 1937 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of coal |
| Lewis | Vincent | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 11 | Caught between tram and prop |
| Brown | George | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Broken cable on riding rake; 1 of 21 killed |
| Beaton | Philip | 1939 | Cape Breton County | Bras d'Or No. 1 | Caught between 2 cars, died 3 days later |
| Batten | Joseph P. | 1941 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of stone |
| Kane | Roy | 1942 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Fall of stone |
| Deveaux | Joseph | 1942 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 24 | Fall of stone |
| Lamey | Joseph | 1943 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 18 | Fall of stone |
| McInnis | Hugh | 1944 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 18 | Crushed between derailed box and timber |
| McDougall | Daniel R. | 1945 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall from bankhead (surface) |
| White | Clarence | 1946 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Haulage |
| Morgan | George | 1948 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Haulage |
| McIntyre | Adrian | 1950 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Haulage |
| McDonald | Donald | 1952 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| Gower | Frederick | 1953 | Cape Breton County | Beaver | Fall of stone |
| Lynk | Fred | 1954 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Haulage |
| Farrell | Lawrence | 1956 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 18 | Gas asphixiation; 1 of 2 killed |
| Curry | Duncan | 1957 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Fall of stone |
| Roach | David | 1959 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 25 | Haulage |
| Duder | Edward | 1960 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Fall in sump |
| MacNeil | John A. | 1963 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 18 | Haulage |
| Stewart | Donald Sr. | 1966 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 26 | Haulage:Hit by a full trip |
| Andrews | Stanley | 1968 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 26 | Natural Causes |
| Finlayson | Daniel | 1971 | Cape Breton County | Princess Wash Plant, Surface | Running cars at plant,got jammed between couplings of a full car and empty car |
| Mills | Wayne | 1979 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Methane explosion, sparked by coal shearer hitting stone; 1 of 12 killed |
| Power | Lewis | 1985 | Cape Breton County | Lingan | Crushed |
| McLeod | Thomas | 1867 | Cape Breton County | Lingan | Fall of stone |
| Carmichael | Charles | 1872 | Cape Breton County | Gowrie | Crushed by machinery |
| Lammond | James | 1872 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines Colliery (Queen pit) | Fall of stone |
| McGowen | Alex | 1886 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines (Princess?) | Dropped dead at face by heart disease |
| Gillis | Stephen | 1891 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines (Princess?) | Fell out of cage coming from work |
| Hardy | Dan | 1895 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Methane explosion; 1 of 2 killed |
| McNeil | Fred | 1898 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of loose coal |
| McDonald | John | 1899 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of stone at face of room |
| Horn | John | 1900 | Cape Breton County | Reserve | Fall of coal whilst drawing pillars; 1 of 2 killed |
| Elliott | Hugh | 1902 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of coal at room face |