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Annual Report 1994

Appendix

1994 North Carolina Medical Examiner Non-Natural Deaths by Manner and Means

Means of Death MVA Homocide Suicide Accidents Undet. Total

Air transport

     

94

 

94

Alcohol

     

44

 

44

Alcohol and Other Poisons

   

4

13

1

18

Animals

6

   

1

 

7

Asphyxial Death

 

3

5

51

 

14

Barbiturates

 

1

2

   

3

Bicycle

23

1

     

24

Blunt Instrument

 

58

 

1

1

60

Carbon Monoxide

   

38

7

2

47

Cataclysmic Storm

     

1

 

1

Cave-in

     

1

 

1

Child Abuse/Neglect

 

19

     

19

Drowning

5

2

7

105

2

121

Electrocution

     

13

 

13

Explosion

   

1

6

 

7

Exposure

 

1

 

19

 

20

Fall

2

3

 

288

 

293

Falling Objects

     

34

 

34

Fight/Brawl

 

20

     

20

Fire

3

9

4

170

2

188

Gun

 

611

660

33

4

1,308

Hanging

 

1

96

5

 

102

Insect Stings

     

3

 

3

Jump

   

2

1

 

3

Lightning

     

2

 

2

Motor Vehicle

1,401

2

1

14

1

1,419

Motorcycle

73

       

73

Non-agricultural Machinery

     

14

 

14

Operative Procedure

     

33

 

33

Other Agricultural Machinery

     

4

 

4

All Others

   

2

7

 

9

Other Abuse/Neglect

         

0

Other Poisoning

 

1

80

113

5

201

Scald

 

1

     

1

Sharp Instrument

 

125

12

6

 

143

Strangulation

 

14

1

1

 

16

Tractor

2

   

18

 

20

Train

12

 

2

32

1

47

Unknown

 

4

 

8

40

52

Water Transport

     

5

 

5

Total

1,527

876

917

1,148

59

4,527