60 miners killed   1863   Pictou

40 miners killed   1866-1872   Nova Scotia

 6 miners killed   1878   Sydney Mines

 49 miners killed   1880   Pictou

7 miners killed   1881   Vale colliery

13 miners killed   1885   Vale

125 miners killed   1891   Springhill

11 miners killed   1899   Caledonia

5 miners killed   1903   Reserve

10 miners killed   1905   Port Hood

65 miners killed   1917   New Waterford

88 miners killed   1918   Stellarton

21 miners killed   1938   Sydney Mines

19 miners killed   1952   Pictou

39 miners killed   1956   Springhill

76 miners killed   1958   Springhill

 26 miners killed   1958   Trenton

[Letter in the Halifax Chronicle-Herald, 15 February 2000]