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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MacPhee | Vernon Michael | 1967 | Cape Breton County | Four Star | Machinery: Caught in capstan |
| MacIntosh | Earl | 1967 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 26 | Falling stone and coal |
| Smith | Arnold S. | 1967 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Haulage: Caught between box and timbe |
| MacIntyre | Murdock | 1967 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Haulage: Caught between timber and box |
| Forrest | Stanley | 1967 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Natural Causes |
| Seward | John | 1967 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 26 | Haulage: Run over by empty trip |
| Warren | Henry | 1968 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 26 | Haulage |
| White | Wallace | 1968 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 12 | Haulage: Struck by arch boom |
| Swarttzack | Freeman | 1968 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 20 | Natural Causes |
| Andrews | Stanley | 1968 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 26 | Natural Causes |
| MacIntosh | Anthony | 1968 | Cape Breton County | Dominion Glace Bay Shops Department | Natural Causes |
| Stoker | Matthew | 1968 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 26 | Natural Causes |
| Reashor | Maurice | 1968 | Cape Breton County | Princess | Coronary heart attack |
| Gillis | Fred | 1968 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 12 | Haulage: Caught by box on 25E main level and squeezed against low side of wall |
| Canova | Fred | 1968 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 20 | Haulage: Run over by runaway motor when he jumped off |
| King | Michael | 1968 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 26 | Haulage: Caught between rail and box when motor trip struck standing boxes |
| Gilroy | Floyd O. | 1969 | Cumberland | Syndicate | Fall of stone |
| Linthorne | Walter | 1969 | Pictou County | McBean | Caught in coal-cutting machine |
| McMasters | Earl J. | 1969 | Cumberland | Springhill, Syndicate Mine or Springhill No. 1 | Struck by empty trip |
| Atwood | Wilfred | 1969 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 12 | Caught on cutting drum of Anderton Shearer |
| Ludlow | William | 1969 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Haulage |
| MacKenzie | Earl C. | 1969 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Fall of stone |
| Baxter | Robert | 1969 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Fall of stone |
| Burbine | Joseph | 1969 | Cumberland | River Hebert Coal Mine, formerly Cochran | Died of natural causes in mine |
| MacArthur | Harry | 1970 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 12 | Killed on main haulage deep |
| Martell | John Alexander | 1970 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 12 | Squeezed between 2 boxes on material landing |
| MacKenzie | Alex J. | 1970 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Struck by a trip on the south angle |
| Wallace | James | 1970 | Cape Breton County | Princess Wash Plant, Surface | Squeezed in a chain conveyor |
| Mombourquette | Alphonse | 1971 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 12 | Natural Causes |
| MacLean | Lester | 1971 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 12 | Natural Causes |
| Legnaro | Benedict | 1971 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Natural Causes |
| Finlayson | Daniel | 1971 | Cape Breton County | Princess Wash Plant, Surface | Running cars at plant,got jammed between couplings of a full car and empty car |
| Poirier | Alex | 1971 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Natural Causes |
| Matheson | James E. | 1971 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Haulage: Struck by a trip of material |
| Snow | John | 1972 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | |
| Maloney | James | 1973 | Cumberland | River Hebert Coal Mine, formerly Cochran | Died of natural causes in mine |
| MacLellan | Earl | 1973 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Natural Causes |
| MacFadgen | Donald | 1973 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 12 | Explosion and fire; 1 of 2 killed |
| Leadbeater | Earl | 1973 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 12 | Explosion and fire; 1 of 2 killed |
| MacDonald | Charles V. | 1974 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Struck by railway car; or jammed between 2 railway cars |
| MacInnis | John F. | 1974 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Struck by empty mine car trip |
| LeBlanc | Daniel | 1976 | Cape Breton County | Lingan | Struck by a material trip |
| McKeigan | George Hector | 1978 | Cumberland | River Hebert Coal Mine, formerly Cochran | Fall of stone |
| Stevens | Hugh "Dulie" Arthur | 1978 | Cumberland | River Hebert Coal Mine, formerly Cochran | Accident, blasting incident; died 29 days later |
| Cameron | Alexander | 1978 | Cape Breton County | Lingan | Fall of stone |
| Roberts | Michael | 1979 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Methane explosion, sparked by coal shearer hitting stone; 1 of 12 killed |
| Young | Michael F. | 1979 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Methane explosion, sparked by coal shearer hitting stone; 1 of 12 killed |
| Matheson | Fred | 1979 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Methane explosion, sparked by coal shearer hitting stone; 1 of 12 killed |
| Mills | Wayne | 1979 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Methane explosion, sparked by coal shearer hitting stone; 1 of 12 killed |
| Anderson | James R. | 1979 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Methane explosion, sparked by coal shearer hitting stone; 1 of 12 killed |