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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Oct 2.
Published in final edited form as: J Agromedicine. 2023 Jun 30;28(4):881–889. doi: 10.1080/1059924X.2023.2229827

Table 2.

Percent distributions of no injury, nonfatal injury and fatality outcomes for variables tested with Chi-Square. Shades represent the quartiles (lighter with the lowest quartile).

Variable (X2(1), p) n No Injury
(row %)
Nonfatal Injury
(row %)
Fatal Injury
(row %)
Vessel activity (43.5, p< .001)
Transit 141 40 45 15
Fishing 121 21 54 26
Moored 54 6 85 9
Anchored 10 30 30 40
Unknown 44 23 64 13
Vessel type (119.8, p<.001)
Catcher 251 37 45 18
Catcher/processor 74 1 96 3
Processor 17 0 100 0
Dive boat 13 8 38 54
Skiff 14 29 0 71
Fishery (69.5, p< .001)
Groundfish 136 10 80 10
Shellfish 113 23 50 27
Pelagic fish 83 47 34 19
Unknown 43 47 37 16
Gear type (132.6, p< .001)
Trawl 114 9 85 6
Pot/Trap 95 28 45 26
Troll 37 57 32 11
Seine 25 48 48 4
No fishing gear 19 0 100 0
Longline 18 28 44 28
Dive 14 7 43 50
Gillnet 16 25 13 63
Unknown 34 49 29 23
First event leading to incident - without unknowns (23.5, p=.009)
Flooding 39 67 8 26
Struck rocks/bottom 33 67 24 9
Smoke/fire/explosion 17 59 41 0
Instability 14 64 7 29
Crossing hazardous bars 13 46 8 46
Struck by large wave 11 55 9 36
Final event leading to incident - without unknowns (21.8, p< .001)
Sinking 104 71 10 19
Grounded 14 54 31 15
Capsized (afloat) 8 36 9 55