• Abstracter assigned
• ICD-10 underlying cause of death

• All intents, or any combination of the following
• Unintentional firearm
• Homicide
• Legal intervention
• Suicide
• Undetermined intent
• Homicide followed by suicide, except when using ICD-10 mode
   

• All injury, or any combination of the following
• Firearm (additional subcategories for abstractor assigned: all firearms, handgun, shotgun, rifle, other firearm, combination of firearms, unknown/not reported)
• Cut/Pierce/Stab with sharp instrument
• Struck by/against (additional subcategories for abstractor assigned: all, blunt instrument, personal weapons (hands, feet))
• Poisoning (additional subcategories for abstractor assigned: all, street/recreational drugs only, alcohol only, prescription drugs only, over-the-counter (OTC) drugs only, carbon monoxide or other gas only, multiple drug combinations, other specified poison, unknown drugs/not reported)
• Hanging, strangulation, suffocation
• Fall
• Drowning
• Fire/Burn
• Motor vehicle, including cars, vans, SUVs, buses, motorcycles and others
• Intentional neglect
• Other
• Unknown

(Note: For incidents with multiple victims, all victim-subject relationships will be counted.)

• All, or any combination of the following
• Spouse or other intimate partner (current or ex)
• Parent
• Child
• Other relative
• Acquaintance or friend
• Stranger
• Other specified relationship
• Unknown relationship

• Calendar year of victim’s death (or first death for multiple victims)

• Individual participating states
• Groups of states

• All races, white, black, American Indian/Alaskan Native, Asian/Pacific Islander
• All ethnicities, Hispanic, non-Hispanic, unknown
• Both sexes, male, female

• All, or any combination of the following:
• House/apartment/yard/driveway
• Residential institution/shelter/prison
• Highway/street/road/automobile
• Recreational/cultural area/public building
• Commercial/farm/industrial/construction area
• Natural area/countryside/forest
• Other including school/sports areas
• Unknown/missing

• All
• Homeless
• Not homeless
• Unknown/missing

• All
• Pregnant
• Not pregnant
• Unknown/missing

• All
• Current/former military
• Non-military
• Unknown/missing

• All persons with known circumstances
• Intimate partner violence-related
• Argument over money/property
• Other argument/abuse/conflict
• Precipitated by another crime
• Crime in progress
• Drug involvement
• Brawl (3 or more persons involved in a mutual physical fight)
• Jealousy (lovers’ triangle)
• Victim used weapon
• Gang-related
• Victim was a bystander
• Mercy killing
• Hate crime
• Justifiable self defense
• Victim was assisting a crime victim

• All persons with known circumstances
• Current depressed mood
• Current mental health problems
• Current treatment for mental health problem
• Ever treated for mental health problem
• Person left a suicide note
• Disclosed intent to commit suicide
• History of suicide attempts
• Crisis in past 2 wks
• Intimate partner problem
• Other relationship problem
• Physical health problem
• Alcohol dependence
• Other substance problem
• Recent criminal legal problem
• Other legal problems
• Job problem
• Financial problem
• School problem
• Suicide of family or friend in the past five years
• Other death of family or friend in the past five years
• Perpetrator of interpersonal violence in the past month
• Victim of interpersonal violence in the past month

• All persons with known circumstances
• Hunting
• Target shooting
• Self defensive shooting
• Celebratory firing
• Loading/unloading gun
• Cleaning gun
• Showing gun to others
• Playing with gun
• Other context of injury
• Thought safety was engaged
• Thought unloaded, magazine disengaged
• Thought gun was unloaded, other
• Unintentionally pulled trigger
• Bullet ricochet
• Gun defect or malfunction
• Fired while holstering/unholstering
• Dropped gun
• Fired while operating safety/lock
• Gun mistaken for toy
• Other mechanism of injury