Table 2 Causes of death by meteorological disasters
Causes of death | Examples of expressions for causes of death on victim survey reports |
|---|---|
Drowning in a river | Caught in a swift stream while crossing a river on foot or on a bike, caught in a swift stream on a submerged cultivator, caught in a flooded river or swift stream while camping, driving into a river while victims are operating a motor vehicle, crossing a submerged bridge, caught in a swift stream while working on a bridge, missing and/or dying in a swift stream while working on a rice field, and dying in a swift stream while on patrol of a river |
Drowning in the sea | Missing in waves during fishing or tidal waves, missing and/or dying in waves while watching on the shore |
Drowning in a sunken vessel | Sinking of a ship while working or while stranded, missing while escaping from the ship overturned by waves, communication interruption and missing at anchor, colliding with a breakwater being pulled by a tugboat, and sinking in high waves |
Drowning in a submerged house | Death from shock in a flooded house and death in a flooded house due to river overflowing |
Drowning in an urban facility | Losing one's footing and falling into a sewage manhole to death in a flood, drowning in sewage being swept by strong winds, overtaken by a swift stream while driving an automobile, drowning in a capsized vehicle on a sunken road, missing while removing foreign matter from a manhole on a construction site, and drowning while checking the floodgate at the water supply |
Structural collapse | Collapse of bridge, wall, bungalow, flooded road, stable, stone embankment, bank, slope, house, and missing house and/or road |
Electrocution | Electrocuted while moving fallen electric poles, electrocuted while doing repair on a roof top, and electrocuted while walking |
Lightning | Hit by lightning while fishing on a breakwater, in a vinyl house, while harvesting rice, on a field, on a ship, and on a golf course |
Fall | Death from a fall |
Collision | Death from a shock caused by moving obstacles and death from the shock of a flying object |
Avalanche | Factory collapse due to heavy snow and frozen to death following exhaustion while climbing out of an avalanche |
Deterioration of disease by disaster | Death from heart-lung failure |
Landslide | Death from the fall of an earth pile, buried in a house in a landslide, and buried in a landslide while camping |
Other | Other causes of death |