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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Legere | Alfred | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| Legere | Samuel | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Leggett | Herbert | 1948 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall of stone; 1 of 2 killed |
| Legnaro | Benedict | 1971 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Natural Causes |
| Lennon | James | 1880 | Pictou County | Foord pit | Devastating methane explosion |
| Lennon | James | 1926 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Fall of stone |
| Leonard | Elmer | 1910 | Pictou County | Albion | Fall of coal |
| Leonard | Alfred | 1900 | Cape Breton County | International | Killed getting in cage at pit bottom |
| Leshambre | Pierre | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Letcher | Frank | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Lettuce | William | 1958 | Cape Breton County | Tomson | Explosion |
| Lewis | William | 1880 | Pictou County | Foord pit | Devastating methane explosion |
| Lewis | Vincent | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 11 | Caught between tram and prop |
| Lewis | John F. | 1943 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 | Crushed between trip and air line |
| Lewis | Harold | 1956 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Electricity-fired coal dust explosion |
| Liddle | Alex | 1904 | Cumberland | Chignecto | Caught between box & coal crib, died 9 days later |
| Light | Fred J. | 1948 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 4 | Killed by haulage |
| Lilley | Stephen Paul | 1992 | Pictou County | Westray | Devastating methane and coal dust explosion |
| Lindsay | Charles | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Linkletter | Harris Karl | 1943 | Cumberland | Standard (Sweetcake) or Strathcona No.2 | Struck by stemming from shot hole |
| Linthorne | Walter | 1969 | Pictou County | McBean | Caught in coal-cutting machine |
| Lipton | Dave | 1954 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | watchman, died suddenly at work |
| Little | Ernest | 1907 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Smothered by slack coal in boiler shed chute |
| Livingstone | Joseph | 1876 | Cape Breton County | Victoria | Fall of coal |
| Livingstone | John | 1904 | Pictou County | Marsh | Jammed between a box and the roof |
| Livingstone | Fred C. | 1957 | Pictou County | Greenwood No. 2 | Hit by a runaway coal box |
| Livingstone | Gilbert | 1958 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Terrific, devastating bump |
| Livingstone | Henry | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Locke | James | 1919 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Struck by piece of wood |
| Lockhart | Charles | 1874 | Cumberland | Scotia (Northern) | Fall of coal |
| Lockhart | Dan | 1883 | Cumberland | Chignecto | Killed by cage going off track |
| Lockhart | Daniel | 1891 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 1 & No. 2 | Gas and coal dust explosion |
| Lohez | Joseph | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Lonergan | Michael | 1932 | Pictou County | Albion | Fell over a bench of coal |
| Long | George | 1892 | Cape Breton County | Victoria | Scalded by boiler explosion, died 9 days later 1 of 3 killed |
| Long | William | 1901 or 1902 | Cumberland | Jubilee, River Hebert | Bankhead under construction fell on him |
| Long or Lank | Lawrence | 1922 | Cumberland | Minudie #2 | Powder ignited by cartridge explosion, died 14 days later |
| Lorimer | Harold | 1954 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Bump; 1 of 5 killed |
| Love | Ernest | 1920 | Pictou County | Acadia No. 3 (Six-Foot) | Struck by a runaway box |
| Lowe | William | 1839 | Pictou County | Storr pit | Methane explosion; 1 of 2 killed |
| Lowther | William | 1900 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Leg broken in fall of stone at working face |
| Luckman | John | 1870 | Cape Breton County | International | Crushed by cage |
| Lucus | Marcus | 1943 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Fall of stone |
| Luddington | Truman | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |
| Ludlow | William | 1969 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Haulage |
| Luffman | William | 1938 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Broken cable on riding rake; 1 of 21 killed |
| Lukovitch | Stanis | 1916 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of coal, died 6 days later |
| Lund | John | 1897 | Cape Breton County | Reserve | Caught between coal box and pillar |
| Luscombe | Edmund Clarence | 1945 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Caught between box and timber |
| Lussem or Lussen | August | 1918 | Pictou County | Allan Shaft | Devastating methane explosion |