N.C. OCME Annual
Report 1992
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Appendix: 1992
North Carolina Medical Examiner Non-Natural Deaths by Manner and
Means
MEANS
OF DEATH |
MVA |
HOMICIDE |
SUICIDE |
ACCIDENTS |
UNDET. |
TOTAL |
Air
Transport |
|
|
|
34 |
|
34 |
Alcohol |
|
|
|
44 |
|
44 |
Alcohol
and Other Poisons |
|
|
7 |
8 |
1 |
16 |
Animals |
|
|
|
5 |
|
5 |
Asphyxial
Death |
|
6 |
5 |
45 |
1 |
57 |
Barbiturates |
|
|
2 |
|
|
2 |
Bicycle |
22 |
|
|
3 |
|
25 |
Blunt
Instrument |
|
52 |
|
1 |
1 |
54 |
Carbon
Monoxide |
|
|
34 |
5 |
|
39 |
Cataclysmic
Storm |
|
|
|
2 |
|
2 |
Cave-in |
|
|
|
3 |
|
3 |
Child
Abuse/Neglect |
|
20 |
|
|
|
20 |
Drowning |
15 |
3 |
9 |
126 |
2 |
155 |
Electrocution |
|
|
|
10 |
|
10 |
Explosion |
|
|
1 |
4 |
|
5 |
Exposure |
|
1 |
|
21 |
|
22 |
Fall |
1 |
|
|
223 |
|
224 |
Falling
Objects |
|
|
|
33 |
|
33 |
Fight/Brawl |
|
12 |
|
|
1 |
13 |
Fire |
7 |
7 |
11 |
175 |
|
200 |
Gun |
|
548 |
632 |
43 |
2 |
1,225 |
Hanging |
|
1 |
75 |
7 |
|
83 |
Insect
Stings |
|
|
|
1 |
|
1 |
Jump |
|
|
7 |
2 |
|
9 |
Lightning |
|
|
|
1 |
|
1 |
Motor
Vehicle |
1,247 |
4 |
2 |
|
|
1,253 |
Motorcycle |
68 |
|
|
|
|
68 |
Non-Agricultural
Machinery |
|
1 |
|
19 |
|
20 |
Operative
Procedure |
|
|
|
33 |
|
33 |
Other
Agricultural Machinery |
|
|
|
10 |
|
10 |
Other
Abuse/Neglect |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Other
Poisoning |
|
1 |
93 |
73 |
7 |
174 |
Scald |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sharp
Instrument |
|
141 |
9 |
2 |
|
152 |
Strangulation |
|
16 |
1 |
|
|
17 |
Tractor |
|
|
|
25 |
|
25 |
Train |
21 |
|
|
18 |
1 |
40 |
Unknown |
|
16 |
1 |
16 |
90 |
123 |
Water
Transport |
|
|
|
3 |
|
3 |
Total |
1,381 |
829 |
889 |
995 |
106 |
4,200 |
|