QuickStats: Percentage Distribution of Deaths Involving Injuries from Recreational and Nonrecreational Use of Watercraft,* by Month — United States, 2020–2022

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The figure is a bar graph illustrating the percentage distribution of U.S. deaths involving injuries from recreational and nonrecreational use of watercraft, by month during 2020–2022.

* Deaths were identified using International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision underlying cause of death codes V90–V94 (water transport). Water transport includes both recreational and nonrecreational use of motorized (e.g., merchant ship, ferry, passenger ship, fishing boat, and jet ski) and nonmotorized (e.g., canoe, kayak, inflatable craft, surfboard, and windsurfer) watercraft. Deaths resulted from drowning, submersion, and other types of injuries. All water transport deaths are unintentional.

During 2020–2022, a total of 1,481 deaths occurred involving injuries from recreational and nonrecreational use of watercraft. The highest percentage of these deaths (17.4%) occurred in July, with the majority occurring during May–September.

Supplementary Table: https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/155045


Source: National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System, Mortality Data, 2020–2022. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/deaths.htm

Reported by: Matthew F. Garnett, MPH, Mgarnett@cdc.gov.

For more information on this topic, CDC recommends the following link: https://www.cdc.gov/drowning/prevention/index.html


Suggested citation for this article: QuickStats: Percentage Distribution of Deaths Involving Injuries from Recreational and Nonrecreational Use of Watercraft, by Month — United States, 2020–2022. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2024;73:447. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm7319a5.

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