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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| McGowen | Alex | 1886 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines (Princess?) | Dropped dead at face by heart disease |
| Poirier | Alex | 1971 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Natural Causes |
| McDonad | Alex | 1928 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Fall of coal |
| Nichelson | Alex | 1889 | Cape Breton County | Victoria | |
| Bigney or Bignay | Alex | 1908 or 1909 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Fall of stone |
| McSween | Alex | 1954 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Construction |
| Dixon | Alex | 1943 | Inverness | Inverness No. 1 | Fall of stone |
| Steele | Alex | 1928 | Cape Breton County | Florence | Fall of stone |
| McIntyre | Alex | 1929 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Struck by cage |
| Campbell | Alex | 1956 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Electricity-fired coal dust explosion |
| McCosh | Alex | 1890 | Cape Breton County | Gowrie | Fall of stone from roof |
| McGillivray | Alex | 1871 | Pictou County | Foord pit | Killed in the Foord by gas |
| Glenn | Alex | 1895 | Pictou County | Acadia | Fall from roof of working face |
| Young | Alex | 1949 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Haulage |
| Foster | Alex | 1894 | Pictou County | Albion | Run over by a coal trip |
| Dugas | Alex | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Colonial | Crushed between box and rib |
| MacLean | Alex | 1867 | Pictou County | unidentified shaft being sunk or Cage pit | Methane explosion |
| Arseneau | Alex | 1916 | Cumberland | Victoria | Fall of roof |
| Jenson or Jamieson | Alex | 1914 | Pictou County | Albion | Run over by a box |
| Degaust | Alex | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 7 | Fall of stone |
| LeBlanc | Alex | 1927 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Crushed: 2 runaway boxes hit box he was lifting |
| Rordenan | Alex | 1919 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 5 | Fall of stone |
| Aexter | Alex | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines No. 3 (Florence) | Explosion |
| McLeod | Alex | 1933 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Run over by trip |
| MacLean | Alex | 1937 | Pictou County | Acadia No. 7 (Moss mine) | Fall of coal |
| McNeil | Alex H | 1941 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 24 | Attempted to get on moving train |
| MacKenzie | Alex J. | 1970 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Struck by a trip on the south angle |
| McDonald | Alex P. | 1943 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Crushed between boxes |
| Munroe | Alex W. | 1942 | Pictou County | McGregor | Hit by a trip |
| McDonald | Alexander | 1899 | Cape Breton County | Caledonia | Afterdamp from methane explosion; 1 of 11 killed |
| Gabriel | Alexander | 1918 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall of stone |
| Andreggo | Alexander | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 14 | Struck by runaway box |
| Campbell | Alexander | 1899 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of loose coal from hung shot |
| Hill | Alexander | 1923 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Caught by flywheel in starting haulage engine |
| Eloi | Alexander | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Brunt | Alexander | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Holland | Alexander | 1929 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal |
| Morrison | Alexander | 1902 | Cape Breton County | Caledonia | Fall of coal from pillar |
| Watts | Alexander | 1878 | Inverness | Port Hood | Explosion of steam boiler; 1 of 2 killed |
| McKinnon | Alexander | 1895 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Methane explosion; 1 of 2 killed |
| Campbell | Alexander | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Cameron | Alexander | 1978 | Cape Breton County | Lingan | Fall of stone |
| Ryan | Alexander | 1873 | Cape Breton County | Lingan | Fall of coal |
| Bunton | Alexander | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Massive gas and coal dust explosioni |
| Ross | Alexander | 1872 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Methane explosion |
| Cameron | Alexander | 1888 | Pictou County | English Slopes (abandoned) | Overground as a boiler was being lowered |
| Walker | Alexander | 1920 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal |
| Cameron | Alexander | 1906 | Pictou County | Vale | Run over by a hopper in pit yard |
| Ross | Alexander | 1911 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Struck by a rake |
| McEachern | Alexander | 1882 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Killed by a rake of full pit tubs |