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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brunt | Alexander | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Jessoe | Alexander | 1934 | Cape Breton County | Colonial No. 1 | Fall of stone |
| Watts | Alexander | 1878 | Inverness | Port Hood | Explosion of steam boiler; 1 of 2 killed |
| Bunton | Alexander | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Massive gas and coal dust explosioni |
| Jamieson | Alexander | 1914 | Pictou County | Albion | Killed by cage |
| Fraser | Alexander | 1875 | Pictou County | Black Diamond | Crushed by moving coal tub against a doorpost |
| Stewart | Alexander | 1918 | Pictou County | Albion (Purvis slope) | Coal box fell to the ground |
| Bond | Alexander | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Sydney No. 3 (Florence) | Fall of coal |
| Campbell | Alexander | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Fraser | Alexander | 1883 | Pictou County | Vale | Drawbar broke, crash of runaway slope rake |
| Hill | Alexander | 1923 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Caught by flywheel in starting haulage engine |
| Holland | Alexander | 1929 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal |
| Howie | Alexander | 1901 | Cape Breton County | Caledonia | Killed by runaway coal wagon in east deep |
| Young | Alexander | 1893 | Cape Breton County | Gowrie | Fall of roof coal, died 6 days later |
| Handley | Alexander | 1964 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Haulage |
| MacDougall | Alexander | 1964 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Haulage |
| Andreggo | Alexander | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 14 | Struck by runaway box |
| MacLean | Alexander | 1980 | Cape Breton County | Prince | Crushed by bucket against wall of shaft |
| Munroe | Alex W. | 1942 | Pictou County | McGregor | Hit by a trip |
| McDonald | Alex P. | 1943 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Crushed between boxes |
| MacKenzie | Alex J. | 1970 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Struck by a trip on the south angle |
| McNeil | Alex H | 1941 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 24 | Attempted to get on moving train |
| Graham | Alex | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 15 | Fall of stone |
| Steele | Alex | 1928 | Cape Breton County | Florence | Fall of stone |
| McIntyre | Alex | 1929 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Struck by cage |
| McGowen | Alex | 1886 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines (Princess?) | Dropped dead at face by heart disease |
| Caporallo | Alex | 1936 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Struck by trip |
| Poirier | Alex | 1971 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Natural Causes |
| Nichelson | Alex | 1889 | Cape Breton County | Victoria | |
| McSween | Alex | 1954 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Construction |
| Spence | Alex | 1956 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Draegerman; carbon monoxide post explosion |
| McGillivray | Alex | 1871 | Pictou County | Foord pit | Killed in the Foord by gas |
| Glenn | Alex | 1895 | Pictou County | Acadia | Fall from roof of working face |
| Dugas | Alex | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Colonial | Crushed between box and rib |
| McCosh | Alex | 1890 | Cape Breton County | Gowrie | Fall of stone from roof |
| Arseneau | Alex | 1916 | Cumberland | Victoria | Fall of roof |
| Foster | Alex | 1894 | Pictou County | Albion | Run over by a coal trip |
| McLeod | Alex | 1933 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Run over by trip |
| Rordenan | Alex | 1919 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 5 | Fall of stone |
| MacKinnon | Alex | 1905 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Bump |
| Borden | Alex | 1905 | Cape Breton County | Caledonia | Fall of coal from face |
| Campbell | Alex | 1956 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Electricity-fired coal dust explosion |
| MacLean | Alex | 1867 | Pictou County | unidentified shaft being sunk or Cage pit | Methane explosion |
| Young | Alex | 1949 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Haulage |
| Jenson or Jamieson | Alex | 1914 | Pictou County | Albion | Run over by a box |
| Degaust | Alex | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 7 | Fall of stone |
| LeBlanc | Alex | 1927 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Crushed: 2 runaway boxes hit box he was lifting |
| Aexter | Alex | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines No. 3 (Florence) | Explosion |
| Bigney or Bignay | Alex | 1908 or 1909 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Fall of stone |
| Dixon | Alex | 1943 | Inverness | Inverness No. 1 | Fall of stone |