N.C. OCME Annual
Report 1994
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Appendix: 1994 North Carolina Medical Examiner Non-Natural Deaths by Manner and Means
| Means
of Death |
MVA |
Homicide |
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 |
|
