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