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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reashor | Maurice | 1968 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Coronary heart attack |
| Snow | John | 1972 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | |
| Ward | Fabian E. | 1979 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Methane explosion, sparked by coal shearer hitting stone; 1 of 12 killed |
| Tighe | John (boy) | 1966 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 17 (old Victoria) | Methane inhalation; 1 of 2 cousins who went down old slope |
| Timmons | John | 1867 | Cape Breton County | Collins | Fall of coal; 1 of 2 killed |
| McLean | Angus | 1872 | Cape Breton County | Gowrie | Run over by wagon |
| Sumners | William | 1872 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines Colliery (Queen pit) | Fell down shaft |
| Nichelson | Alex | 1889 | Cape Breton County | Victoria | |
| McDonald | John | 1892 | Cape Breton County | Reserve | Fall of loose coal from face of room |
| McLean | Hector | 1895 | Cape Breton County | Gowrie | Fell under coal car on surface railroad |
| McIntosh | Dan | 1898 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines (Princess?) | Fell under trip trying to get on for a ride |
| Morrison | John | 1899 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines (Princess) | Fall of coal whilst holing in pillar |
| Jacobs | James | 1900 | Cape Breton County | Reserve | Fall of coal while loading in room |
| Moncusco | Angelo | 1902 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Killed by full tub on main haulage road |
| Keehn | Emile | 1903 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Run over by loaded box |
| Ryan | John | 1904 | Cape Breton County | Caledonia | Fall of stone from roof |
| McMullin | Joseph | 1905 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal from face |
| Slanwhite | M. | 1906 | Cape Breton County | Hub | Fall of stone |
| Ashworth | Richard | 1907 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal |
| Nicholson | J.W. | 1907 | Cape Breton County | Sydney No. 4 (Scotia) | Struck by runaway box down main slope; 1 of 3 killed |
| Churchill | Joseph | 1908 | Cape Breton County | Emery Mine | Fell into Emery shaft |
| Kitely | George | 1909 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Fall of stone |
| MacDougall | M. | 1909 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines (Princess) | Fall of stone |
| Alexander | Gust | 1910 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal off rib |
| McAskill | D. | 1893 | Cape Breton County | Victoria | Caught by full cage on balance |
| Cicchetto | Albert | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 14 | Fall of stone |
| Parsons | Israel | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines No. 3 (Florence) | Methane explosion and coal dust; 1 of 8 killed |
| Crawford | Patrick | 1912 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fell under fuel box |
| Collogani | Redolph | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Jammed between boxes |
| Malloy | John | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Fall of roof coal |
| Kroput | John | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of stone |
| Lamond | James | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Sydney No. 3 (Florence) | Caught between box and prop |
| Chiasson | Pat | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Killed by trip |
| Mollish | John | 1916 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Fall of coal |
| Yak | Nicholas | 1916 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 15 | Fall of roof |
| Hayden | Roderick | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of stone |
| Comhaire or Comhair | Henri | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |
| Killoway | Eugene | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |
| Milley | Thomas | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |
| Snow | William | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |
| Peters | William | 1918 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 11 | Killed by main drive-chain on bank, on surface |
| Smith | Albert | 1919 | Cape Breton County | Florence, on surface | Burnt at boiler doors, died 7 days later |
| Doyle | James | 1920 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 14 | Struck by empty trip |
| Ward | Fred | 1921 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Fall of stone, died next day |
| Buso | Petro | 1923 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 15 | Crushed between mine car and rib, died next day |
| MacDougall | Daniel | 1923 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 14 | Fall of stone in pillar work 1 of 2 killed |
| Dunsmuir | James | 1924 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Fall of stone |
| Campbell | John | 1926 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Trip of boxes |
| McDonald | john J. | 1927 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 22 | Struck by trip |
| McDonald | John A. | 1928 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Injured by box |