N.C. OCME Annual
Report 1995
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Appendix: 1995 North Carolina Medical Examiner Non-Natural Deaths by Manner
and Means
| Means
of Death |
MVA |
Homicide |
Suicide |
Accidents |
Undet. |
Total |
| Air
transport |
|
|
|
10 |
|
10 |
| Alcohol |
|
|
2 |
46 |
|
48 |
| Alcohol
and Other Poisons |
|
|
1 |
1 |
|
2 |
| Animals |
9 |
|
|
3 |
|
12 |
| Asphyxial
Death |
|
9 |
8 |
44 |
|
53 |
| Barbiturates |
|
|
1 |
|
|
1 |
| Bicycle |
34 |
|
|
1 |
|
35 |
| Blunt
Instrument |
|
44 |
|
|
|
44 |
| Carbon
Monoxide |
|
|
60 |
2 |
|
62 |
| Cataclysmic
Storm |
|
|
|
2 |
|
2 |
| Cave-in |
|
|
|
2 |
|
2 |
| Child
Abuse/Neglect |
|
7 |
|
|
|
7 |
| Drowning |
12 |
2 |
11 |
150 |
|
175 |
| Electrocution |
|
|
|
18 |
|
18 |
| Explosion |
|
|
2 |
3 |
|
5 |
| Exposure |
1 |
|
|
27 |
|
28 |
| Fall |
5 |
2 |
|
324 |
|
330 |
| Falling
Objects |
1 |
|
|
28 |
|
29 |
| Fight/Brawl |
|
12 |
|
|
|
12 |
| Fire |
4 |
9 |
8 |
142 |
1 |
164 |
| Gun |
|
530 |
637 |
32 |
2 |
1,201 |
| Hanging |
|
|
90 |
6 |
|
96 |
| Insect
Stings |
|
|
|
3 |
|
3 |
| Jump |
|
|
9 |
2 |
|
11 |
| Lightning |
|
|
|
2 |
|
2 |
| Motor
Vehicle |
1,406 |
1 |
5 |
21 |
1 |
1,434 |
| Motorcycle |
78 |
|
|
|
|
78 |
| Non-agricultural
Machinery |
|
|
|
13 |
|
13 |
| Operative
Procedure |
|
|
|
23 |
|
23 |
| Other
Agricultural Machinery |
|
|
|
6 |
|
6 |
| All
Others |
|
2 |
|
10 |
|
12 |
| Other
Abuse/Neglect |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Other
Poisoning |
|
2 |
88 |
141 |
10 |
232 |
| Scald |
|
|
|
1 |
|
1 |
| Sharp
Instrument |
|
84 |
17 |
|
|
101 |
| Strangulation |
|
16 |
|
1 |
|
17 |
| Tractor |
|
|
|
24 |
|
24 |
| Train |
7 |
|
1 |
24 |
|
46 |
| Unknown |
|
5 |
|
7 |
33 |
45 |
| Water
Transport |
|
|
|
5 |
|
5 |
| Total |
1,557 |
725 |
940 |
1,125 |
47 |
4,394 |
|
