TYPE OF EVENT AND AGE OF VICTIM

The term "unintentional" covers most deaths from injury and poisoning. Excluded are homicides (including legal intervention), suicides, deaths for which none of these categories can be determined, and war deaths.

Deaths
Total: 92,200
Change from 1997: 0%
Death Rate^a: 34.1

Includes deaths involving mechanically or electrically powered highway-transport vehicles in motion (except those on rails), both on and off the highway or street.

Deaths
Total: 41,200
Change from 1997: -3%
Death Rate^a: 15.2

Includes deaths from falls from one level to another or on the same level. Excludes falls in or from transport vehicles, or while boarding or alighting from them.

Deaths
Total: 16,600
Change from 1997: +8%
Death Rate^a: 6.1

Includes deaths from drugs, medicines, mushrooms, and shellfish, as well as commonly recognized poisons. Excludes poisonings from spoiled foods, salmonella, etc., which are classified as disease deaths.

Deaths
Total: 8,400
Change from 1997: 0%
Death Rate^a: 3.1

Includes all drownings (work and nonwork) in boat accidents and those resulting from swimming, playing in the water, or falling in. Excludes drownings in floods and other cataclysms, which are classified to the cataclysm.

Deaths
Total: 4,100
Change from 1997: +8%
Death Rate^a: 1.5

Includes deaths from fires, burns, and from injuries in conflagrations--such as asphyxiation, falls, and struck by falling objects. Excludes burns from hot objects or liquids.

Deaths
Total: 3,700
Change from 1997: -8%
Death Rate^a: 1.4

Includes deaths from unintentional ingestion or inhalation of food or other objects resulting in the obstruction of respiratory passages.

Deaths
Total: 3,200
Change from 1997: +3%
Death Rate^a: 1.2

Includes unintentional deaths from firearms injuries principally in recreational activities or on home premises. Excludes deaths from explosive material or in war operations.

Deaths
Total: 900
Change from 1997: -18%
Death Rate^a: 0.3

Mostly carbon monoxide due to incomplete combustion, involving cooking and heating equipment and standing motor vehicles. Excludes deaths in conflagrations, or associated with transport vehicles in motion.

Deaths
Total: 600
Change from 1997: 0%
Death Rate^a: 0.2

Most important types included are: medical and surgical complications and misadventures, machinery, air transport, water transport (except drownings), mechanical suffocation, and excessive cold.

Deaths
Total: 13,500
Change from 1997: 0%
Death Rate^a: 5.0