Since we're on the subject
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Chris Maunder wrote:
Do they have stats on: ...
Those causes of death would fall under these ICD-10 codes: 1. W17 (Other fall from one level to another) 2. W55 (Bitten or struck by other mammals) 3. W79 (Inhalation and ingestion of food causing obstruction of respiratory tract) 4. W20 (Struck by thrown, projected or falling object) CDC aggregates data from all reported deaths in the United States. The original death certificates contain the specific details such as whether the falling object was an anvil or a piano and if the mammal was a squirrel or a ferret. Fatal bites from rats and dogs are most common. They are tracked by their own codes. You can search 1999 - 2004 data online at: Centers for Disease Control Compressed Mortality Database[^]