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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corbett | Angus | 1936 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Caught in conveyor belt |
| Copley | Samuel | 1948 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Machinery |
| Copely | David | 1918 | Cape Breton County | Scotia (Sydney Mines) | Fall of stone |
| Copeland | James E. | 1954 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Bump; 1 of 5 killed |
| Cope | William A. | 1922 | Cumberland | Victoria | Caught between roof and car on slope, died 30 days later |
| Copan | Louis | 1923 | Inverness | Inverness No. 1 | Killed by trip of mine cars |
| Copan | John | 1947 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Caught by a haulage cable |
| Cooper | Arthur | 1931 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2, Surface | Run over by car in colliery yard |
| Cooke | William | 1979 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Methane explosion, sparked by coal shearer hitting stone; 1 of 12 killed |
| Cooke | H. A. | 1905 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fell when staging broke in shaft as they were sinking it |
| Cook | James I | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 7 | Fall of stone |
| Cook | Robert | 1881 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines (Princess?) | Riding on Engine plane |
| Conway | James D. | 1880 | Pictou County | Foord pit | influx of water; 1 of 6 killed |
| Conway | Isaac | 1914 | Pictou County | Albion | Fall of top coal |
| Conway | David | 1938 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Run over by a shunting engine on surface |
| Conway | James | 1950 | Pictou County | Albion | Fall of coal |
| Conway | John | 1868 | Cape Breton County | Aspe Bay | Explosion of powder |
| Conway | Wayne Michael | 1992 | Pictou County | Westray | Devastating methane and coal dust explosion |
| Conway | James | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Conran | Andrew | 1960 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Fall of stone |
| Connorton | John | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Connors | John | 1910 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Run over by motor, died a few hours after |
| Connors | Thomas | 1942 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of stone |
| Connolly | C. | 1880 | Pictou County | Vale | Burned by gas ignited by his open-flame lamp |
| Connell | Frank | 1914 | Pictou County | Albion | Fall of coal |
| Conn | James | 1839 | Pictou County | Storr pit | Methane explosion; 1 of 2 killed |
| Conn | Leo | 1932 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 11 | Fall of stone |
| Comhaire or Comhair | Henri | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |
| Collogani | Redolph | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Jammed between boxes |
| Collins | ingraham | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Florence | Fall of stone |
| Collins | Mathew | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Collins | William | 1943 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Crushed under trip |
| Collin | Andrew | 1873 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Devastating methane explosion |
| Collin | Robert | 1955 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Fall of stone |
| Collier | Alfred | 1923 | Cape Breton County | Bras d'Or No. 4 | Fall of coal from roof in room |
| Colin | Francis | 1878 | Pictou County | Acadia | Run over by pit tub |
| Coleman | Peter | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |
| Coleman | John H. | 1908 or 1909 | Cumberland | Joggins | Suffocated by smoke |
| Cole | Cecil | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| Cole | Eugene | 1960 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 26 | Fall of stone |
| Colburn | William | 1910 | Pictou County | Albion | Fall of coal |
| Coffin | Louis | 1949 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Haulage |
| Cochrane | William L. | 1946 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Killed by mine machinery |
| Cobert | James | 1946 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Haulage |
| Coady | Peter | 1923 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Struck by trip near surface on main slope |
| Clements | Freeman | 1912 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Fall of coal |
| Clarke or Clark | Ernest | 1913 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Fell off box |
| Clarke | John | 1929 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 11 | Fall of stone |
| Clarke | Walter | 1942 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Struck by box |
| Clarke | Kenneth | 1956 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Electricity-fired coal dust explosion |