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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ackles | Charles | 1909 | Cumberland | Jubilee, River Hebert | Killed by runaway box |
| Ferguson | Charles | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |
| Dye | Charles | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 7 | Killed by cars on surface, in colliery yard |
| MacNeil | Charles | 1957 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| Nash | Charles | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Burton | Charles | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| McKay | Charles | 1913 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Killed by a riding rake |
| Halliday | Charles | 1945 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Struck by rake |
| Boram | Charles | 1880 | Pictou County | Foord pit | influx of water; 1 of 6 killed |
| Lindsay | Charles | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Campbell | Charles | 1962 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Haulage |
| McLeod | Charles | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| Jones | Charles | 1929 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone, died 6-7 weeks later |
| Vine | Charles | 1937 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Fall of coal |
| Harrison | Cecil | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| Cole | Cecil | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| Nazoff | Castro | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 7 | Jammed between box and roof |
| Nicseptote | Carmian | 1912 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of roof |
| iafalli | Carmen | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Broken cable on riding rake; 1 of 21 killed |
| Murphy | Carl G. | 1921 | Cumberland | Springhill | Caught between beam of screen floor and break wheel of a moving railway car |
| Mooring | Carl | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| Pietzrak or Pietchieck | Carl | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Rescue work after explosion |
| White | Carl | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| Hanuse | Cammile | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| McDonald | C.R. | 1907 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 6 | Struck by empty trip |
| Grasesnack | C. G. | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Connolly | C. | 1880 | Pictou County | Vale | Burned by gas ignited by his open-flame lamp |
| McNulty | C. | 1902 | Pictou County | Vale | Powder explosion; 1 of 2 killed |
| Pepperdine | Burrell | 1956 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Electricity-fired coal dust explosion |
| Regan | Bruce | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Murphy | Brian | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines No. 3 (Florence) | Methane explosion and coal dust; 1 of 8 killed |
| White | Brenton | 1952 | Pictou County | McGregor | Methane explosion (localized); 1 of 19 killed |
| Gracy | Bosel | 1895 | Cape Breton County | Hub | Fell from stage down shaft; 1 of 2 killed |
| Kralieck | Bohuslon | 1926 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| Bourgeois | Bliss | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| McLeise | Bertram | 1880 | Pictou County | Foord pit | Devastating methane explosion |
| Boquet | Berry | 1892 | Pictou County | Vale | Fall of coal from working face |
| McEachern | Bernard | 1958 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Haulage |
| Miller | Bernard | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| MacIntosh | Bernard | 1963 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 26 | Fall of stone |
| Maquire | Bernard | 1914 | Pictou County | Vale | Struck by an empty trip that derailed |
| McMullen | Bernard | 1904 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines Colliery; Nova Scotia Steel & Coal | Killed by a trip |
| DeCoste | Bernard | 1914 | Inverness | Inverness | Fall of coal |
| Benoit | Bennie Joseph | 1992 | Pictou County | Westray | Devastating methane and coal dust explosion |
| Enion | Benjamin | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Sydney No. 3 (Florence) | Fall of coal from face |
| Edwards | Benjamin | 1920 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Electrocuted in power house |
| Roy | Benjamin | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Struck by piece of coal, died 3 days after |
| Adey | Benjamin | 1907 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 and No. 9 Surface plant | Boiler explosion; 1 of 3 or 4 killed |
| Legnaro | Benedict | 1971 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Natural Causes |
| McLellan | Ben | 1956 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | On bankhead, Electricity-fired coal dust explosion |