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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hyde | William | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Hyde | William | 1887 | Pictou County | Vale | Caught beneath a roof fall while timbering; 1 of 2 killed |
| Gumatto | William | 1912 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | uncertain if killed; confusing records |
| Flemming | William | 1907 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Caught between box and boom |
| Forrest | William | 1944 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall of stone |
| Andrews | William | 1873 | Cape Breton County | Gowrie | Fall of coal |
| Ince | William | 1938 | Pictou County | Acadia No. 7 (Moss mine) | Caught by fall of rock |
| Carmichael | William | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Carrigan | William | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Luffman | William | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Broken cable on riding rake; 1 of 21 killed |
| Kent | William | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Fletcher | William | 1883 | Cumberland | Springhill | Killed by fracture of brake bolt |
| Stevens | William | 1910 | Cumberland | Chignecto | Explosion |
| Collins | William | 1943 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Crushed under trip |
| Munsie | William | 1943 | Pictou County | McGregor | Crushed between a box and a steel boom |
| Burke | William | 1930 | Cumberland | Victoria No. 2 | Gas explosion; 1 of 7 killed |
| Jones | William | 1928 | Cape Breton County | Florence | Steel railing falling from car |
| Thompson | William | 1924 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of stone and coal |
| Turnbull | William | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| Campbell | William | 1884 | Pictou County | Albion | Premature explosion of a shot |
| Murdock | William | 1880 | Pictou County | Foord pit | Devastating methane explosion |
| Parsons | William | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |
| Morrison | William | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 8 | Struck by box |
| Wright | William | 1933 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Asphixiated by methane gas |
| Paterson | William | 1912 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Fall of coal |
| Gillespie | William | 1913 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Caught between box at 4700 bottom |
| Sampson | William | 1953 | Cape Breton County | Florence | Haulage |
| Dunbar | William | 1880 | Pictou County | Foord pit | Devastating methane explosion |
| Grant | William | 1907 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 6 | Fall of stone |
| McKenzie | William | 1908 | Inverness | Port Hood | Explosion on No. 3 level south; 1 of 10 killed |
| Hamilton | William | 1950 | Pictou County | Albion | Fall of coal |
| Spencer | William | 1897 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Burned by compressed powder |
| Power | William | 1920 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fall of coal |
| McSephney | William | 1955 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Killed by haulage |
| Andrews | William | 1910 | Cape Breton County | Gowrie | Fall of coal |
| MacLeod | William | 1959 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| McNamara | William | 1877 | Cape Breton County | Lingan | Explosion of boiler; 1 of 3 killed |
| Ludlow | William | 1969 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Haulage |
| McLutchy | William | 1890 | Cape Breton County | Reserve | Fall of stone from roof, died 5 weeks later |
| Myers | William | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| King | William | 1903 | Cape Breton County | Reserve | Methane explosion No.5 S level, French slope |
| Turnbull | William | 1873 | Pictou County | Vale | Under a falling derrick |
| Burke | William | 1866 | Cape Breton County | Caledonia | Fall of picks in shaft |
| White | William | 1930 | Cumberland | Victoria No. 2 | Gas explosion; 1 of 7 killed |
| Hannaham or Hanrahan | William | 1883 | Pictou County | Vale | Drawbar broke, crash of runaway slope rake |
| Whittle | William | 1956 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall of stone |
| Oliver | William | 1944 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Struck by trip |
| McCallum | William | 1931 | Cumberland | Victoria No. 4 (Bright Light Mine) | Went over surface dump with car |
| Baxter | William | 1910 | Pictou County | Albion | Fall of coal |
| McAldine | William | 1910 | Cape Breton County | Sydney No. 4 (Scotia) | Fall of stone |