N.C. OCME Annual
Report 1993
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Appendix: 1993 North Carolina Medical Examiner Non-Natural Deaths by Manner and
Means
| Means of Death |
MVA |
Homicide |
Suicide |
Accidents |
Undet. |
Total |
| Air Transport |
|
|
|
15 |
|
15 |
| Alcohol |
|
|
|
55 |
|
55 |
| Alcohol and Other Poisons |
|
|
2 |
11 |
1 |
14 |
| Animals |
2 |
|
|
|
|
2 |
| Asphyxial Death |
|
6 |
9 |
56 |
1 |
72 |
| Barbiturates |
|
|
2 |
|
|
2 |
| Bicycle |
34 |
|
|
|
|
34 |
| Blunt Instrument |
|
50 |
|
1 |
1 |
52 |
| Carbon Monoxide |
|
|
38 |
7 |
|
45 |
| Cataclysmic Storm |
|
|
|
4 |
|
4 |
| Cave-in |
|
|
|
|
|
0 |
| Child Abuse/Neglect |
|
23 |
|
|
|
23 |
| Drowning |
12 |
|
13 |
135 |
|
160 |
| Electrocution |
|
|
|
14 |
|
14 |
| Explosion |
|
|
1 |
4 |
|
5 |
| Exposure |
|
|
|
33 |
|
33 |
| Fall |
2 |
1 |
|
243 |
|
246 |
| Falling Objects |
1 |
|
|
46 |
|
47 |
| Fight/Brawl |
|
37 |
|
1 |
|
38 |
| Fire |
10 |
13 |
8 |
165 |
|
196 |
| Gun |
|
666 |
621 |
43 |
4 |
1,334 |
| Hanging |
|
|
80 |
7 |
|
87 |
| Insect Stings |
|
|
|
7 |
|
7 |
| Jump |
1 |
|
3 |
5 |
|
9 |
| Lightning |
|
|
|
1 |
|
1 |
| Motor Vehicle |
1,334 |
12 |
2 |
9 |
1 |
1,358 |
| Motorcycle |
100 |
|
|
|
|
100 |
| Non-agricultural Machinery |
|
|
|
13 |
|
13 |
| Operative Procedure |
|
|
|
33 |
|
33 |
| Other Agricultural Machinery |
|
|
|
3 |
|
3 |
| All Others |
|
1 |
0 |
6 |
|
7 |
| Other Abuse/Neglect |
|
|
|
|
|
0 |
| Other Poisoning |
|
|
84 |
108 |
15 |
207 |
| Scald |
|
|
|
4 |
|
4 |
| Sharp Instrument |
|
116 |
9 |
4 |
1 |
130 |
| Starvation |
|
|
1 |
1 |
|
2 |
| Strangulation |
|
19 |
1 |
2 |
|
22 |
| Tractor |
1 |
|
|
22 |
|
23 |
| Train |
16 |
|
3 |
22 |
|
41 |
| Unknown |
|
9 |
1 |
10 |
50 |
70 |
| Water Transport |
|
|
|
8 |
|
8 |
| Total |
1,513 |
953 |
878 |
1,098 |
74 |
4,516 |
|
