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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taylor | John B. | 1919 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Caught in fly wheel |
| Taylor | John S. | 1935 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Struck by trip |
| Tattersal | Joseph | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Tallia | Angelo | 1918 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Fall of coal |
| Tabor | Hollis | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| Tabor | Monty | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| Tabor | Raymond | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| Tabor | Fred E. | 1938 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall of stone |
| Tabor | Donald | 1956 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Electricity-fired coal dust explosion |
| Tabbot | John | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Swift | Henry | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Sweet | Eben | 1902 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall down chute |
| Sweeney | John W. | 1924 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall of stone |
| Swarttzack | Freeman | 1968 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 20 | Natural Causes |
| Sutherland | David | 1880 | Pictou County | Foord pit | Devastating methane explosion |
| Sutherland | J. W. | 1902 | Pictou County | Marsh | Dynamite explosion in office; frozen sticks put near heat to thaw; 1 of 3 killed |
| Sutherland | Walter | 1902 | Pictou County | Marsh | Dynamite explosion in office; frozen sticks put near heat to thaw; 1 of 3 killed |
| Sutherland | David | 1958 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 18 | Haulage |
| Sumners | William | 1872 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines Colliery (Queen pit) | Fell down shaft |
| Sullivan | Thomas | 1880 | Pictou County | Foord pit | Devastating methane explosion |
| Sullivan | Peter | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Sullivan | John | 1867 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines Colliery (Queen pit) | Crushed in mine |
| Styles | Clair | 1956 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Electricity-fired coal dust explosion |
| Stubbert | Foreman | 1884 | Cape Breton County | Reserve | Fall of coal |
| Stubbert | Matthew | 1903 | Cape Breton County | Reserve | Mis-shot exploded while he was examining it |
| Stubbart | Alexandr or Alexander | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Stuart | Kenneth | 1901 | Inverness | Broad Cove | Killed by runaway wagon in bottom of slope |
| Strople | Ralph | 1907 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal |
| Strong | William H. | 1878 | Cumberland | Springhill | Killed on surface |
| Strathie | Robert | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Strang | Thomas L. | 1929 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Donkey runner; caught in rope on drum |
| Stostak | Wasyl | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal and stone |
| Stoker | Matthew | 1968 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 26 | Natural Causes |
| Stewart | Donald Sr. | 1966 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 26 | Haulage:Hit by a full trip |
| Stewart | Wilkie | 1903 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines Colliery; Nova Scotia Steel & Coal | Tally boy, age 14; jammed between tub and tipple at pit head |
| Stewart | John | 1936 | Cape Breton County | Colonial | Struck by runaway trip |
| Stewart | D. McFarlane | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Stewart | James | 1934 | Cape Breton County | Colonial No. 1 | Struck by coal boxes |
| Stewart | George | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Stewart | Malcolm | 1908 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines (Princess) | Overwind man-shaft cage; 1of 2 killed |
| Stewart | William | 1874 | Pictou County | Black Diamond | Fall of coal |
| Stewart | Walter | 1935 | Cumberland | Victoria No. 4 (Bright Light Mine) | Fall of stone |
| Stewart | James | 1906 | Pictou County | Albion | Struck by a rake |
| Stewart | Alexander | 1918 | Pictou County | Albion (Purvis slope) | Coal box fell to the ground |
| Stewart | Daniel | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal |
| Stevenson | William | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| Stevenson | William | 1917 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Struck by prop, died 3 days later |
| Stevenson | James | 1943 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Coal tank platform tilted, threw man down shaft; 1 of 4 killed being lifted in coal shaft |
| Stevenson | James | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Stevens | Freeman | 1942 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Struck by rake |