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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MacNeil | John A. | 1979 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Methane explosion, sparked by coal shearer hitting stone; 1 of 12 killed |
| Baxter | Robert | 1969 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Fall of stone |
| MacInnis | John F. | 1974 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Struck by empty mine car trip |
| MacKenzie | Alex J. | 1970 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Struck by a trip on the south angle |
| Cooke | William | 1979 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Methane explosion, sparked by coal shearer hitting stone; 1 of 12 killed |
| Boazan | Ronald | 1983 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Crushed |
| 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 |
| Legnaro | Benedict | 1971 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Natural Causes |
| Matheson | Fred | 1979 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Methane explosion, sparked by coal shearer hitting stone; 1 of 12 killed |
| MacDonald | Ronald | 1984 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Fire |
| Mills | Wayne | 1979 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Methane explosion, sparked by coal shearer hitting stone; 1 of 12 killed |
| Poirier | Alex | 1971 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Natural Causes |
| Anderson | James R. | 1979 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Methane explosion, sparked by coal shearer hitting stone; 1 of 12 killed |
| Matheson | James E. | 1971 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Haulage: Struck by a trip of material |
| Sharpe | Clifford | 1979 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Methane explosion, sparked by coal shearer hitting stone; 1 of 12 killed |
| Snow | John | 1972 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | |
| Ward | Fabian E. | 1979 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Methane explosion, sparked by coal shearer hitting stone; 1 of 12 killed |
| MacLellan | Earl | 1973 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Natural Causes |
| MacNeil | Reginald A. | 1979 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Methane explosion, sparked by coal shearer hitting stone; 1 of 12 killed |
| Purcell | Paul F. | 1979 | Cape Breton County | DEVCO No. 26 | Methane explosion, sparked by coal shearer hitting stone; 1 of 12 killed |
| Groves | Frank | 1911 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Shot blew through on slant containing water, partly driven between main slope, drowned; 1 of 2 killed |
| Kernekant or Heinekamp | Herman | 1927 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 16 | Fall of stone |
| Stephens | Wendall | 1928 | Cape Breton County | Dominion 1A | Caught in conveyor in boiler room |
| McIntyre | Joseph | 1919 | Cape Breton County | Dominion 2 and 9 pityard (surface) | Jammed between wall and superintendent''s auto |
| McDougald | Stephen | 1919 | Cape Breton County | Dominion Coal Company shaft | Stone fell from wall |
| MacIntosh | Anthony | 1968 | Cape Breton County | Dominion Glace Bay Shops Department | Natural Causes |
| Bartlett | John C. | 1908 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of coal |
| Pohoronz | Wasyl | 1919 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of coal |
| Dumphy | James | 1908 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of coal from face |
| Campbell | M. S. | 1916 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of coal |
| Girdinetti | G. | 1908 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of coal from face |
| McDonald | John B. | 1901 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Struck by falling roof stone while undercutting with machine |
| McKinnon | Daniel | 1906 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of coal; died in hospital |
| McNeil | Michael A. | 1908 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of coal and stone |
| Bacarro | Guissippi | 1912 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Jammed between trip and door |
| Hanrahan | Joseph | 1920 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Jammed between loaded box and boom |
| Marshall | Willian | 1900 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Caught between cage and roof |
| McDougald | Murdock | 1901 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fatally injured on surface between 2 cars |
| McPherson | Malcolm | 1906 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of stone |
| Handrahan | James | 1912 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of stone from roof |
| McDonald | D. W. C. | 1918 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of stone |
| Spencer | William | 1897 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Burned by compressed powder |
| McDonald | John | 1900 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Killed by stone fall at face |
| Thistle | George | 1901 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Killed by runaway wagon from pit bottom |
| Trevison | Mario | 1912 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of stone |
| McNeil | Dan R. | 1916 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of roof |
| Fraser | Stephen | 1894 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fell 68 feet from smoke stack, died 5 days later |
| McDonald | Murdock | 1900 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fell against in-motion engine drum |
| Dunphy | James | 1908 | Cape Breton County | Dominion No. 1 | Fall of coal from face |