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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bacarro | Guissippi | 1912 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Jammed between trip and door |
| Hanrahan | Joseph | 1920 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Jammed between loaded box and boom |
| Spencer | William | 1897 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Burned by compressed powder |
| McDonald | John | 1900 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Killed by stone fall at face |
| Thistle | George | 1901 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Killed by runaway wagon from pit bottom |
| McPherson | Malcolm | 1906 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of stone |
| Handrahan | James | 1912 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of stone from roof |
| McDonald | D. W. C. | 1918 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of stone |
| Fraser | Stephen | 1894 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fell 68 feet from smoke stack, died 5 days later |
| McDonald | Murdock | 1900 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fell against in-motion engine drum |
| Trevison | Mario | 1912 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of stone |
| McNeil | Dan R. | 1916 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of roof |
| McLellan | Joseph | 1900 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Roof stone fell on him while driving |
| Dunphy | James | 1908 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of coal from face |
| Zanicol | Barnado | 1912 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of coal from face |
| 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 |
| McDonald | John | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Fall of stone |
| Hennessey | Joseph | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Fall of stone, leg injured |
| Shoder | Martin | 1912 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Fall of roof |
| Cummings | James | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Caught between cars and rib |
| McDougall | Allan | 1921 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Fall of stone |
| Roach | Dan | 1926 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Fall of stone |
| Chiasson | Joseph R. | 1930 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Fall of stone |
| Martin | Isadore | 1934 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Fall of stone |
| Kitely | George | 1909 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Fall of stone |
| Ward | Fred | 1921 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Fall of stone, died next day |
| McLeod | Dan | 1934 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Fall of stone |
| O'Connor | John | 1914 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Fall of stone at longwall face |
| McPherson | Moses | 1918 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Fall of stone |
| Martin | John | 1935 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Fall of stone |
| Bert | Alphonse | 1940 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Fall of stone from roof |
| Lebonis | Andre | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Fall of stone |
| Donnelly | Robert | 1918 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Fall of stone |
| Nicholson | William | 1927 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 10 | Squeezed between box and pillar |