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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mills | Wayne | 1979 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Methane explosion, sparked by coal shearer hitting stone; 1 of 12 killed |
| Poirier | Alex | 1971 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Natural Causes |
| Anderson | James R. | 1979 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Methane explosion, sparked by coal shearer hitting stone; 1 of 12 killed |
| Matheson | James E. | 1971 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Haulage: Struck by a trip of material |
| Sharpe | Clifford | 1979 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Methane explosion, sparked by coal shearer hitting stone; 1 of 12 killed |
| 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 |
| MacLellan | Earl | 1973 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Natural Causes |
| MacNeil | Reginald A. | 1979 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Methane explosion, sparked by coal shearer hitting stone; 1 of 12 killed |
| Purcell | Paul F. | 1979 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Methane explosion, sparked by coal shearer hitting stone; 1 of 12 killed |
| Ludlow | William | 1969 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Haulage |
| Hall | Albert | 1979 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Methane explosion, sparked by coal shearer hitting stone; 1 of 12 killed |
| MacKenzie | Earl C. | 1969 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Fall of stone |
| MacDonald | Charles V. | 1974 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Struck by railway car; or jammed between 2 railway cars |
| MacNeil | John A. | 1979 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Methane explosion, sparked by coal shearer hitting stone; 1 of 12 killed |
| Baxter | Robert | 1969 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Fall of stone |
| MacInnis | John F. | 1974 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Struck by empty mine car trip |
| MacKenzie | Alex J. | 1970 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Struck by a trip on the south angle |
| 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 |
| Roberts | Michael | 1979 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Methane explosion, sparked by coal shearer hitting stone; 1 of 12 killed |
| Kernekant or Heinekamp | Herman | 1927 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| Groves | Frank | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Shot blew through on slant containing water, partly driven between main slope, drowned; 1 of 2 killed |
| Stephens | Wendall | 1928 | Cape Breton County | Dominion 1A | Caught in conveyor in boiler room |
| McIntyre | Joseph | 1919 | Cape Breton County | Dominion 2 and 9 pityard (surface) | Jammed between wall and superintendent''s auto |
| McDougald | Stephen | 1919 | Cape Breton County | Dominion Coal Company shaft | Stone fell from wall |
| MacIntosh | Anthony | 1968 | Cape Breton County | Dominion Glace Bay Shops Department | Natural Causes |
| Curry | Michael | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of stone |
| Campbell | Alexander | 1899 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of loose coal from hung shot |
| Nearing | Patrick | 1903 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of coal |
| Carroll | William | 1910 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Jammed between coal hoppers at surface |
| Batchford | David | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of stone |
| Petrie | James | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of roof |
| McNeil | Peter A. | 1918 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Runaway trip |
| Gillis | John D. | 1899 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fell out of cage when descending shaft |
| McDonald | J.S. | 1910 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of coal |
| Brown | Robert | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Run over by trip |
| Bond | Philip | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of stone |
| Hardy | Dan | 1895 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Methane explosion; 1 of 2 killed |
| McNeil | Fred | 1898 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of loose coal |
| McDonald | John | 1899 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of stone at face of room |
| Elliott | Hugh | 1902 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of coal at room face |
| Kohusz | Wasye | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Caught between two boxes |
| Boviada | Demetris | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Crushed between boxes |
| McKinnon | Alexander | 1895 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Methane explosion; 1 of 2 killed |
| McPherson | D.J. | 1901 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Killed while examining shaft on top of cage when cage in motion |
| Wilson | Nelson | 1907 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Killed on surface by haulage rope used to convey cars under screens |
| Chiasson | Pat | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Killed by trip |
| Admino | Athmis | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of coal |
| Moncusco | Angelo | 1902 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Killed by full tub on main haulage road |