Table 5 Frequency and percentage of burn agent according to the site of death (117 patients with indeterminate or unknown cause)
SITE | Hospital or clinics | Township or village health center | Home | Place working | Public road | Others | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cause | Deaths | % | Deaths | % | Deaths | % | Deaths | % | Deaths | % | Deaths | % |
Electric | 551 | 26.8 | 30 | 73.2 | 723 | 53.6 | 452 | 69.2 | 553 | 79.0 | 313 | 58.3 |
Lightning | 35 | 1.7 | 5 | 12.2 | 268 | 19.9 | 152 | 23.2 | 98 | 14.0 | 175 | 32.6 |
Fire | 1069 | 52.1 | 6 | 14.6 | 339 | 25.1 | 45 | 6.9 | 36 | 5.1 | 42 | 7.8 |
Hot liquids | 271 | 13.2 | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | 0.2 | 0 | 0.0 | 6 | 0.9 | 2 | 0.4 |
Hot gases | 19 | 0.9 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0.1 | 1 | 0.2 | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | 0.4 |
Hot solid | 15 | 0.7 | 0 | 0.0 | 3 | 0.2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
Unspecified | 30 | 1.5 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0.1 | 1 | 0.2 | 3 | 0.4 | 0 | 0.0 |
Suicides | 62 | 3.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 11 | 0.8 | 2 | 0.3 | 4 | 0.6 | 3 | 0.5 |
Total | 2052 | 100.0 | 41 | 100.0 | 1348 | 100.0 | 653 | 100.0 | 700 | 100.0 | 537 | 100.0 |