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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harroun or Ronan | John | 1923 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 7 | Coupling cars, killed by moving cars |
| Schwinghammer or Swinghammer | Fred | 1929 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 7 | Fall of stone |
| Chapman | George | 1897 | Cumberland | Springhill Surface | Cause not recorded |
| Fraser | William K. | 1898 | Cumberland | Springhill Surface | Cause not recorded |
| Richmond | John A. | 1887 | Cumberland | Springhill Surface | Cause not recorded |
| Adams | John | 1888 | Cumberland | Springhill Surface | Cause not recorded |
| Smith | George | 1923 | Cumberland | Springhill Surface | Cause not recorded |
| Foster | Archie | 1904 | Cumberland | Aberdeen | Caught between box and chute; died on beaching bank |
| Cottenden | William J. | 1953 | Cumberland | Springhill (Cumberland Railway & Coal) | Electricity, on surface |
| Anderson | Arthur | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill, East Slope No.1 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Venus | Donald W. | 1961 | Cumberland | Syndicate | Electrocution on slope |
| Gilroy | Floyd O. | 1969 | Cumberland | Syndicate | Fall of stone |
| Haslam | James | 1885 | Cumberland | Syndicate | burned by explosion of powder; 1 of 3 killed |
| Tower | Thomas | 1885 | Cumberland | Syndicate | burned by explosion of powder; 1 of 3 killed |
| Wilson | John | 1885 | Cumberland | Syndicate | burned by explosion of powder; 1 of 3 killed |
| McDonald | Donald | 1885 | Cumberland | Westville or Springhill mine | Died after breaking legs |
| White | Edward or Elwood | 1957 | Cumberland | Bayview | Fall of stone |
| Burke | Frederick John | 1957 | Cumberland | Bayview | Fall of stone |
| Muckle or Muckie | David | 1943 | Cumberland | Bayview | Run over by trip |
| Dowe or Dow | Elroy | 1960 | Cumberland | Bayview No. 8 (Green Crow) | Killed by haulage |
| Gibbons | Peter | 1950 | Cumberland | Bayview No.8 or No. 7 | Killed by haulage, lived 1 day |
| Carson | James | 1908 | Cumberland | Chignecto | Fell down balance |
| Lockhart | Dan | 1883 | Cumberland | Chignecto | Killed by cage going off track |
| Hudson or Hodgeson | John | 1883 | Cumberland | Chignecto | Suffocated by carbonic acid (1 of 3 killed) |
| Burrows | John | 1883 | Cumberland | Chignecto | Suffocated by carbonic acid (1 of 3 killed) |
| Patton | William | 1883 | Cumberland | Chignecto | Suffocated by carbonic acid (1 of 3 killed) |
| Stevens | William | 1910 | Cumberland | Chignecto | Explosion |
| Wood | Arthur or Thomas W. | 1910 | Cumberland | Chignecto | Explosion |
| McPhee | David | 1913 | Cumberland | Chignecto | cause not recorded |
| Liddle | Alex | 1904 | Cumberland | Chignecto | Caught between box & coal crib, died 9 days later |
| Cormier | John | 1907 | Cumberland | Chignecto | Caught between car and bankhead |
| Melanson | Frank | 1951 | Cumberland | Cochran | |
| Hoeg | Jesse Havelock | 1959 | Cumberland | Cochran | Fall of stone |
| Hardcastle | Edward | 1911 | Cumberland | Great Northern | Fall of stone |
| Burke | Charles | 1883 | Cumberland | Joggins | Fall of coal |
| Jennings | Thomas | 1915 | Cumberland | Joggins | Fall of stone |
| Gibson | Harry | 1915 | Cumberland | Joggins | Haulage rope breaking |
| Sawyer | George | 1908 or 1909 | Cumberland | Joggins | Suffocated by smoke |
| Coleman | John H. | 1908 or 1909 | Cumberland | Joggins | Suffocated by smoke |
| White | Amos | 1889 | Cumberland | Joggins | Struck by rake in slope |
| Terrio or Terris | Samuel | 1918 | Cumberland | Joggins | 2 runaway cars, died 2 days later |
| Brown | Amos | 1892 | Cumberland | Joggins | Runaway rake in slope |
| Hall | William | 1918 | Cumberland | Joggins | Fall of stone, died 14 hours later |
| Nicholson | Phillip | 1911 or 1912 | Cumberland | Joggins | Fall of stone |
| Pike | Jabez | 1894 | Cumberland | Joggins | Run over by full rake |
| Ripley | Ira | 1906 | Cumberland | Joggins | Fall of top coal |
| Shannon | George "Happy" | 1921 | Cumberland | Joggins | Electrocuted by shock from cable on pavement |
| Burbine | John | 1913 | Cumberland | Joggins | Runaway boxes |
| MacKenzie | Daniel | 1901 | Cumberland | Joggins No. 3 | |
| O'Regan | James | 1924 | Cumberland | Joggins No. 7 | Fall of coal |