The year also saw the first recorded fatality of a 'citizen journalist.
LONDON, England (CNN) -- A British soldier has died in fighting in southern Iraq -- the first British combat fatality of the campaign.
Scotland's child fatality rate of 32 per million population was also sixteenth lowest.
Men suffered an on-the-job fatality rate of 5.5 per 100, 000 full-time employees, compared with only 0.6 for women, and accounted for 93% of all deaths.
The reported death toll gives the Middle East-based disease a case fatality rate of about 60%, similar to that of the feared H5N1 avian flu.
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Scotland's pedestrian fatality rate of 19 per million population was the sixteenth lowest and similar to those of New Zealand and the USA but slightly worse than the EC average of 18.
Dyfed-Powys Police have begun an investigation into the cause of the crash but a spokesman said any fatality highlighted the issue of motorcyclists' safety.
Even the best-regulated air shows cannot be completely free of risk, but the UK's last fatality involving a member of the public was 50 years ago.
Untreated skin anthrax has a fatality, untreated, of about 20%, but treated, it's less than 1%.
Monster is unaware of any fatality anywhere that has been caused by its drinks.
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Ali Abdulhadi al-Mushaima died on the 14 February 2011, the first fatality in a wave of unrest that swept the Gulf island kingdom.
The bad news is auto crashes still accounted for 32, 788 deaths in 2010, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which means a vehicle-related fatality occurs an average of once every 16 minutes.
Monster said Tuesday it stands by the safety of its products, is unaware of any fatality caused by its beverages, and will vigorously defend itself against the lawsuit involving 14-year-old Anais Fournier, who died last December.
On the other hand, the number of high-fatality attacks worldwide held steady, about 70 in both 2004 and 2005.
The CAA stress the incident is the first case of a helicopter fatality in London since it started keeping records in 1976.
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The government report due to be published is expected to show that the number of road crash fatality victims known to have driven with drugs in their systems has risen from 3% in 1989 to 18% in 1999.
That would mean a number of deaths: the fatality rate for measles in rich countries is one in somewhere between 2, 500 and 5, 000.
America's Cup organizers said Friday it was unclear what impact the fatality might have on the series of races scheduled to begin on July 6.
These fatality rates nothing about the quality of U.S. medical care.
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For accidents, we used the U.S. Department of Transportation's Fatality Analysis Reporting System's records to calculate how many fatal car accidents each MSA had during 2005.
The last airline fatality was a runway crash in August of 2006, unrelated to maintenance.
Piloting small aircraft represents the riskiest type of transportation, according to fatality data analyzed for the study.
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Dr Radcliffe said the star died from "alcohol toxicity", adding it was "a level of alcohol commonly associated with fatality".
Toxicological analysis revealed a level of alcohol commonly associated with fatality.
That's the lowest fatality rate since the government started keeping track of those stats in 1992.
One of the most significant findings of the report was that the fatality rate goes up substantially as speed increases beyond relatively low speeds.
France has suffered only one fatality, a helicopter pilot killed at the beginning of the operation.
That fatality was considered McKinley's first serious incident of the 2012 mountaineering season.
Previously the only French fatality was a helicopter pilot killed on the first day of the military intervention, 11 January.
He says fatality investigations involving firefighters often include statements to the effect of "We didn't think the fire was going to do that" even when all of the available information about risks was there to enable safe decisions.
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