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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hayden | John | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| McKay | H. J. | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| McVey | David | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Nash | Henry | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Shipley | Archibald | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Anderson | Arthur | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill, East Slope No.1 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Cargig | William | 1900 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Fell on pick handles |
| Cherrie | William | 1905 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | killed at the 2400-foot level |
| Krantz | Joseph | 1910 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall of stone |
| Knobi | Fred | 1916 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Fall of coal, died next day |
| Merlin | John G. | 1922 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Caught between pump and upright timber |
| Miller | Penman | 1926 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall of stone |
| Fowler | Orrin L. | 1935 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall of coal at 7100-foot level |
| Stevens | Freeman | 1942 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Struck by rake |
| Cochrane | William L. | 1946 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Killed by mine machinery |
| Bell | Thomas | 1953 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2, #1 seam | Killed by haulage |
| White | Leo | 1954 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Fall of stone; 1 of 3 killed |
| Clarke | Ralph | 1956 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Electricity-fired coal dust explosion |
| Millard | Victor | 1956 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Electricity-fired coal dust explosion |
| White | Alfred A. | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Bump on March 18 |
| Fraser | Harold | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| Livingstone | Gilbert | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| McNutt | Harold | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| Ross | Philip | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| White | Amos | 1889 | Cumberland | Joggins | Struck by rake in slope |
| Stevens | William | 1910 | Cumberland | Chignecto | Explosion |
| Terrio or Terris | Samuel | 1918 | Cumberland | Joggins | 2 runaway cars, died 2 days later |
| Brine | Philip | 1930 | Cumberland | Victoria No. 2 | Gas explosion; 1 of 7 killed |
| LeBlanc | Charles F. | 1932 | Cumberland | Maple Leaf No. 4 | Dust and gas explosion; 1 of 5 killed |
| Dowe or Dow | Elroy | 1960 | Cumberland | Bayview No. 8 (Green Crow) | Killed by haulage |
| Strong | William H. | 1878 | Cumberland | Springhill | Killed on surface |
| Guthro | Thomas | 1887 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Fall of frozen clay; 1 of 2 killed |
| Carmichael | Andrew | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Dawson | Richard | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Hunter | John | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| McKay | Donald 2nd | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| McVey | James | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Noiles | Roger | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Simmons or Simmonds | Howard | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Costigan | Richard | 1892 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 | Struck by timber lowered down slope |
| Milley | John | 1900 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Struck and run over by rake on main slope |
| Hannah | Joseph | 1905 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Killed instantly by being run over by hopper |
| Paul | Percy | 1911 or 1912 | Cumberland | Dominion No. 2, Surface | Smothered in culm car |
| Piggot | Richard | 1917 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall of coal |
| Bourgisk | Charles | 1923 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Bump caused fall of stone in room/bord; 1 of 2 killed |
| Willigher | Mark | 1927 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 6 | Cause not recorded |
| Brian or Bryan | Joseph | 1935 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Motor exploded on back slope |
| Lewis | John F. | 1943 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 | Crushed between trip and air line |
| Dean | George W. | 1946 | Cumberland | Springhill No .4 | Fall of coal |
| Nicholson | Thomas N. | 1953 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2, #1 seam | Killed by haulage |