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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Casey | Archibald | 1921 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Struck by rake of coal |
| Sweeney | John W. | 1924 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall of stone |
| Vance | Alexander | 1931 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Squeezed between two boxes |
| O'Brien | Thomas E. | 1941 | Cumberland | Cumberland Railway & Coal | Pulmonary embolism |
| MacKay | Daniel L. | 1944 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Bump |
| Canning | William G. | 1952 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Found dead in mine |
| Hunter | Wesley | 1954 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Bump; 1 of 5 killed |
| Boutilier | Ernest | 1956 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Electricity-fired coal dust explosion |
| MacDonald | Leslie | 1956 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | On bankhead, Electricity-fired coal dust explosion |
| Ward | George T. | 1956 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Electricity-fired coal dust explosion |
| Crowe | Hance | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| Jackson | John | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| McLeod | Robert | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| Reynolds | Wesley | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| White | Albert | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| Hudson or Hodgeson | John | 1883 | Cumberland | Chignecto | Suffocated by carbonic acid (1 of 3 killed) |
| Ackles | Charles | 1909 | Cumberland | Jubilee, River Hebert | Killed by runaway box |
| Gibson | Harry | 1915 | Cumberland | Joggins | Haulage rope breaking |
| O'Regan | James | 1924 | Cumberland | Joggins No. 7 | Fall of coal |
| Legere | Sanford | 1931 | Cumberland | Victoria No. 4 (Bright Light Mine) | Explosion; 1 of 6 killed |
| White | Edward or Elwood | 1957 | Cumberland | Bayview | Fall of stone |
| Mackey or Mackie | James | 1887 | Cumberland | Springhill | Leg broken; caught by cage in balance |
| Budd | Alonzo | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Conway | James | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Guthro | Lazarus | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| McEachern | John D. | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| McNeil | Rod C. | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Nairn | James | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Rushton | Stephen | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Wry | Edgar | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Boran | John | 1898 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 slope | Fall of stone from roof in workplace |
| Bradley | Ephraim | 1904 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Metals gave heavy thump, broke timber and buried him under fall of coal. |
| Weatherbee or Westhester | Melvin | 1908 or 1909 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Riding on full box |
| Burton | James | 1915 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Fall of stone |
| McDonald | James E. | 1921 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Killed crossing over haulage rope in motion, caught by boxes |
| Boss | Asa G. | 1925 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Killed by trip of boxes; 1 of 2 killed |
| Dykens | Elmer W. or Elmmar | 1932 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall of stone |
| Nodwell | Harry A. | 1941 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall of stone |
| Forrest | William | 1944 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall of stone |
| Hachey | Archibald J. | 1952 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Killed by haulage |
| Lorimer | Harold | 1954 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Bump; 1 of 5 killed |
| Brown | Thomas | 1956 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Electricity-fired coal dust explosion |
| McCormick | Leonard | 1956 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Electricity-fired coal dust explosion |
| Winters | Daniel | 1956 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Electricity-fired coal dust explosion |
| Embree | Harold | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| Jewkes | William | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| McLeod | Charles | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| Rolfe | Ernest | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| Venus | Donald W. | 1961 | Cumberland | Syndicate | Electrocution on slope |
| Burrows | John | 1883 | Cumberland | Chignecto | Suffocated by carbonic acid (1 of 3 killed) |