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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Campbell | William C. | 1926 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 14 | Trip of boxes |
| Rushton | Nelson W. | 1927 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 11 | Fall of stone |
| Steele | Alex | 1928 | Cape Breton County | Florence | Fall of stone |
| Kendell | William | 1929 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| Prendergast | Thomas | 1929 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | End blew out of aftercooler |
| Jobes | James D. | 1931 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Struck by box |
| McIsaac | Angus | 1931 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| McLeod | Alex | 1933 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Run over by trip |
| McPhee | George | 1934 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Struck by full trip |
| Martin | John | 1935 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Fall of stone |
| Pearson | Thomas Edgar | 1936 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Leg broken by trip, died 5 days later in hospital |
| Matlock | John | 1937 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| McGregor | Murdock | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Broken cable on riding rake; 1 of 21 killed |
| Wilkie | William | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Broken cable on riding rake; 1 of 21 killed |
| Bert | Alphonse | 1940 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Fall of stone from roof |
| Ross | James | 1941 | Cape Breton County | Indian Cove Coal Company | Explosion; 1 of 2 killed |
| Currie | John F. | 1942 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 18 | Struck by trip |
| Beaton | Wilson | 1943 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 25 | Drowned; 1 of 2 killed |
| Saccary | Leo | 1943 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Undetermined |
| McDonald | Allan | 1945 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 18 | Fall of stone; 1 of 2 killed |
| Nutter | Roy | 1946 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 24 | Haulage |
| Gardiner | Ambrose | 1948 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 25 | Fall of stone |
| Boutilier | Fred | 1949 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Fall of stone |
| Wadden | Freeman | 1951 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 24 | Fall of stone |
| Gallivan | Joseph | 1952 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1B | Haulage |
| MacKinnon | Dan | 1954 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| O'Leary | Vincent | 1955 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 25 | Haulage |
| MacNeil | Charles | 1957 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| McIsaac | Duncan | 1958 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 26 | Fall of stone |
| Sampson | Sanford | 1960 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 26 | Falling boom |
| Campbell | Charles | 1962 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Haulage |
| McIntyre | Arthur | 1964 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Fall of stone |
| Forrest | Stanley | 1967 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Natural Causes |
| MacArthur | Harry | 1970 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 12 | Killed on main haulage deep |
| LeBlanc | Daniel | 1976 | Cape Breton County | Lingan | Struck by a material trip |
| Banville | Patrick | 1981 | Cape Breton County | Lingan | Heart Attack |
| McIntyre | W. | 1868 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines Colliery (Queen pit) | Crushed by machinery |
| Neville | john | 1873 | Cape Breton County | International | Crushed by train |
| Millville | Edward | 1878 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines (Princess) | Methane explosion; 1 of 6 killed |
| McDonald | Hugh | 1889 | Cape Breton County | Reserve | Fall of loose coal |
| Boutilier | John | 1893 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines (Princess?) | Firedamp escaped from submerged district; (methane poisoning) |
| McLennan | Philip | 1896 | Cape Breton County | Reserve | Fall of roof coal while loading |
| McAulay | Malcolm | 1899 | Cape Breton County | Caledonia | Afterdamp from methane explosion; 1 of 11 killed |
| Nolan | John | 1900 | Cape Breton County | Caledonia | Coal fall in room, died next day |
| McDonald | John B. | 1901 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Struck by falling roof stone while undercutting with machine |
| Long | George | 1892 | Cape Breton County | Victoria | Scalded by boiler explosion, died 9 days later 1 of 3 killed |
| Rickets | John A. | 1903 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Killed by fall of coal |
| McVicar | Alexander | 1904 | Cape Breton County | International | Fall of coal from face |
| Vickers | Edward | 1905 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines (Princess) | Fall of stone |
| Vickers | Alexander | 1906 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines (Princess) | Killed trying to jump on a full trip |