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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| McMullen | Bernard | 1904 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines Colliery; Nova Scotia Steel & Coal | Killed by a trip |
| Young | Archie | 1904 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines Colliery; Nova Scotia Steel & Coal | Fall of coal |
| Bradley | Ephraim | 1904 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Metals gave heavy thump, broke timber and buried him under fall of coal. |
| McLean | Stephen | 1904 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines Colliery; Nova Scotia Steel & Coal | Fell against pump |
| Elbridge | Clifford | 1904 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall in chute, smothered by coal |
| Roy | John H. | 1904 | Pictou County | Albion | Killed instantly in a fall |
| McNeil | Stephen | 1904 | Cape Breton County | Caledonia | Killed by fall of roof coal |
| Foster | Archie | 1904 | Cumberland | Aberdeen | Caught between box and chute; died on beaching bank |
| Dunbar | John | 1904 | Pictou County | Albion | Run over by a rake |
| Liddle | Alex | 1904 | Cumberland | Chignecto | Caught between box & coal crib, died 9 days later |
| Whiteway | William | 1903 | Cape Breton County | Reserve | Methane explosion No.5 S level, French slope; died from burns 3 days later |
| Stubbert | Matthew | 1903 | Cape Breton County | Reserve | Mis-shot exploded while he was examining it |
| MacLeod | James | 1903 | Pictou County | Acadia | Died 15 February |
| Robinson | Robert | 1903 | Pictou County | Albion | Fell under rail car which passed over him |
| Hamilton | William | 1903 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines Colliery; Nova Scotia Steel & Coal | Killed by runaway trip on slope |
| McMillan | John | 1903 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Jammed between roof and box |
| Stewart | Wilkie | 1903 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines Colliery; Nova Scotia Steel & Coal | Tally boy, age 14; jammed between tub and tipple at pit head |
| Wilson | James | 1903 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fatally hurt by a full rake of boxes |
| Howlett | Robert | 1903 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines Colliery; Nova Scotia Steel & Coal | Fall of stone fractured skull |
| Fisher | Henry | 1903 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Fall of coal |
| Ferguson | Robenich | 1903 | Cape Breton County | Sydney Mines Colliery; Nova Scotia Steel & Coal | Fall of stone |
| Hyatt | Percy | 1903 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Killed in return side of fire door conveyors |
| Finlay | Daniel | 1903 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Hit by a rake on the hoisting slope |
| Merritt | John | 1903 | Inverness | Port Hood | Riding trip coupling broke hurling boxes against roof |
| Purdy | Charles L. | 1903 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Fall of rock |
| Blue | John M. | 1903 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Caught under descending cage |
| MacKenzie | William | 1903 | Pictou County | Albion | Jumped from moving train in mine yard |
| Cameron | J.J. | 1903 | Inverness | Mabou | Caught by box on slope |
| Keehn | Emile | 1903 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Run over by loaded box |
| McCuish | John | 1903 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of stone from roof |
| McDonald | John | 1903 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Caught between cage and pulleys |
| Ryan | John W. | 1903 | Pictou County | Drummond mine (Intercolonial) | Fatally injured |
| McDonald | Lauchlin | 1903 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Killed by hoisting bucket falling on him |
| Wamboldt | Harry | 1903 | Pictou County | Vale | Fall of stone at working face |
| McDonald | Dan | 1903 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fall of cage down shaft |
| McNeil | John A. | 1903 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Run over by loaded box |
| Rickets | John A. | 1903 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Killed by fall of coal |
| Quann | Joseph | 1903 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 3 | Caught between loaded box and pillar |
| Jackson | Harry or Henry | 1903 | Cape Breton County | Reserve | Methane explosion No.5 S level, French slope |
| King | Joseph | 1903 | Cape Breton County | Reserve | Methane explosion No.5 S level, French slope |
| King | William | 1903 | Cape Breton County | Reserve | Methane explosion No.5 S level, French slope |
| Nearing | Patrick | 1903 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of coal |
| McNeil | Michael L. | 1903 | Cape Breton County | Reserve | Methane explosion No.5 S level, French slope |
| Bennett | Elijah | 1903 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 2 | Fatally injured, died an hout later |
| Sutherland | Walter | 1902 | Pictou County | Marsh | Dynamite explosion in office; frozen sticks put near heat to thaw; 1 of 3 killed |
| Sweet | Eben | 1902 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fall down chute |
| Wilson | James | 1902 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 2 | Fatally injured by full rake of boxes |
| Burns | Patrick | 1902 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Killed by passing rake |
| DeGrace | James | 1902 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Cause not recorded |
| Melanson | Dosithe | 1902 | Cumberland | Springhill No. 3 | Cause not recorded |