Table 3

 Type of injury

External causeTotal weighted %
*No external cause of injury documented in chart.
†Percentages may not add up to 100 due to rounding.
Fall30.3
Struck by/against13.3
Poisoning7.5
Cut/pierce6.8
Fire/burn6.4
Suffocation5.4
Caught accidentally in/between object4.9
Motor vehicle traffic2.2
Bites and stings3.1
Foreign body1.9
Battering/maltreatment0.7
Other specified, not elsewhere classifiable3.3
Unknown/unspecified*14.3
All injury†100.1