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 |
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MacLean | Alex | 1937 | Pictou County | Acadia No. 7 (Moss mine) | Fall of coal |
McCosh | Alex | 1890 | Cape Breton County | Gowrie | Fall of stone from roof |
Glenn | Alex | 1895 | Pictou County | Acadia | Fall from roof of working face |
Caporallo | Alex | 1936 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Struck by trip |
Steele | Alex | 1928 | Cape Breton County | Florence | Fall of stone |
Dugas | Alex | 1917 | Cape Breton County | Colonial | Crushed between box and rib |
Borden | Alex | 1905 | Cape Breton County | Caledonia | Fall of coal from face |
McIntyre | Alex | 1929 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Struck by cage |
Bigney or Bignay | Alex | 1908 or 1909 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Fall of stone |
Foster | Alex | 1894 | Pictou County | Albion | Run over by a coal trip |
Degaust | Alex | 1915 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 7 | Fall of stone |
Rordenan | Alex | 1919 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 5 | Fall of stone |
Aexter | Alex | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines No. 3 (Florence) | Explosion |
Arseneau | Alex | 1916 | Cumberland | Victoria | Fall of roof |
Dixon | Alex | 1943 | Inverness | Inverness No. 1 | Fall of stone |
Poirier | Alex | 1971 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Natural Causes |
Graham | Alex | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 15 | Fall of stone |
Spence | Alex | 1956 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Draegerman; carbon monoxide post explosion |
McGillivray | Alex | 1871 | Pictou County | Foord pit | Killed in the Foord by gas |
McSween | Alex | 1954 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 4 | Construction |
McLeod | Alex | 1933 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 12 | Run over by trip |
McGowen | Alex | 1886 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines (Princess?) | Dropped dead at face by heart disease |
Liddle | Alex | 1904 | Cumberland | Chignecto | Caught between box & coal crib, died 9 days later |
Nichelson | Alex | 1889 | Cape Breton County | Victoria | |
Campbell | Alex | 1956 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Electricity-fired coal dust explosion |
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 |
Walker | Alexander | 1920 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal |
Hill | Alexander | 1923 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Caught by flywheel in starting haulage engine |
Holland | Alexander | 1929 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal |
Jamieson | Alexander | 1914 | Pictou County | Albion | Killed by cage |
Vickers | Alexander | 1906 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines (Princess) | Killed trying to jump on a full trip |
McVicar | Alexander | 1904 | Cape Breton County | International | Fall of coal from face |
Ryan | Alexander | 1873 | Cape Breton County | Lingan | Fall of coal |
Gabriel | Alexander | 1918 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall of stone |
MacDonald | Alexander | 1922 | Inverness | bootleg pit | Methane gas poisoning; 1 of 3 killed |
Cameron | Alexander | 1888 | Pictou County | English Slopes (abandoned) | Overground as a boiler was being lowered |
McInnis | Alexander | 1895 | Cape Breton County | Victoria | Caught between coal box and pillar |
Cameron | Alexander | 1906 | Pictou County | Vale | Run over by a hopper in pit yard |
Bonner | Alexander | 1920 | Cape Breton County | Florence | Fall of coal; 1 of 2 killed |
Handley | Alexander | 1964 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Haulage |
Vance | Alexander | 1931 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Squeezed between two boxes |
MacDougall | Alexander | 1964 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Haulage |
Smith | Alexander | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
MacLean | Alexander | 1980 | Cape Breton County | Prince | Crushed by bucket against wall of shaft |
Brunt | Alexander | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
Watts | Alexander | 1878 | Inverness | Port Hood | Explosion of steam boiler; 1 of 2 killed |
Bond | Alexander | 1913 | Cape Breton County | Sydney No. 3 (Florence) | Fall of coal |