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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Griffiths | Wallace | 1946 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Bump (more than 2 miles offshore); 1 of 4 killed |
| Goldie | Peter | 1948 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Haulage |
| Rose | John | 1949 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Fall of stone |
| Balog | Gustav | 1951 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| Williams | Clarie | 1953 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Fall of sotne |
| Holloway | John Thomas | 1954 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Electricity |
| Collin | Robert | 1955 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Fall of stone |
| Aucoin | Dan F. | 1957 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Haulage |
| Tobie or Tobin | Frank | 1958 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 26 | Fall of stone |
| Capstick | John | 1960 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 26 | Fall of stone |
| MacDonald | Harold | 1962 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Haulage |
| White | Malcolm | 1965 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 26 | Fall of stone; 1 of 2 killed |
| King | Michael | 1968 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 26 | Haulage: Caught between rail and box when motor trip struck standing boxes |
| Wallace | James | 1970 | Cape Breton County | Princess Wash Plant, Surface | Squeezed in a chain conveyor |
| Cooke | William | 1979 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Methane explosion, sparked by coal shearer hitting stone; 1 of 12 killed |
| Boazan | Ronald | 1983 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Crushed |
| Burke | William | 1866 | Cape Breton County | Caledonia | Fall of picks in shaft |
| Green | John | 1871 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines Colliery (Queen pit) | Fall off bridge |
| Nearing | John | 1877 | Cape Breton County | Lingan | Explosion of boiler; 1 of 3 killed |
| Cook | Robert | 1881 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines (Princess?) | Riding on Engine plane |
| McLutchy | William | 1890 | Cape Breton County | Reserve | Fall of stone from roof, died 5 weeks later |
| Fortune | James | 1894 | Cape Breton County | International | Full trip on deep road |
| Boutilier | John | 1897 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines (Princess?) | Fall of roof stone |
| McDougall | Roderick or Rory | 1899 | Cape Breton County | Caledonia | Afterdamp from methane explosion; 1 of 11 killed |
| McLellan | Joseph | 1900 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Roof stone fell on him while driving |
| McIntyre | Donald | 1901 | Cape Breton County | International | Caught by runaway coal box from bank on surface |
| McLeod | John | 1902 | Cape Breton County | Reserve | Fall of coal from pillar |
| King | William | 1903 | Cape Breton County | Reserve | Methane explosion No.5 S level, French slope |
| Carey | William | 1905 | Cape Breton County | New Campbellton | Killed on main slope by the trip |
| Dominick | P. | 1906 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal from face |
| Dunphy | James | 1908 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of coal from face |
| Gouthro | Simon | 1907 | Cape Breton County | International | Fell down water shaft |
| Rogers | Herbert | 1908 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal, died 5 days later |
| McNeil | Angus | 1907 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 and No. 9 Surface plant | Boiler explosion; 1 of 3 or 4 killed |
| McNeil | John A. | 1909 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Fall of stone |
| Dawe | Andrew | 1910 | Cape Breton County | Sydney No. 3 (Florence) | Runaway box knocked out timber he was putting up and stone fell on him |
| McLeod | William | 1896 | Cape Breton County | Victoria | Killed by coal fall while removing coal leg |
| McLean | Stephen | 1904 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines Colliery; Nova Scotia Steel & Coal | Fell against pump |
| McNeil | James | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 7 | Fall of stone |
| Zanicol | Barnado | 1912 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of coal from face |
| Campbell | David | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Broughton | Struck by runaway box |
| Fry | Peter | 1912 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of roof |
| McInnis | Michael | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Run over by trip |
| Holmes | Angus | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 22 | Fell, striking head on rail |
| Dye | Charles | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 7 | Killed by cars on surface, in colliery yard |
| O'Handley | John | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominon No. 11 | Killed between box and roof |
| McGrath | Patrick | 1916 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 15 | Fall of roof |
| McPherson | D. | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 7 | Run over by trip of cars |
| Butt or Butts | George W. | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |
| Fedora | Joseph | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Methane and blasting powder explosion |