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Thus, 14.6 percent of drownings occur during recreation , compared with 12.8 percent at a home or resident institution and 4.2 percent in a public building ,on a farm, or in an industrial setting or a mine .
According to the report, 700 to 800 people die every year in boat-related fatalities (which, significantly, do not include drownings and other water-related deaths by people who go out on boats, unless the boat itself is somehow responsible--as would be the case, for instance, if someone died from falling off a boat rather than dying during a deliberately planned swim or scuba dive; though if, during a deliberately planned swim or scuba dive, someone were struck by a boat propeller and killed, that would count as a boat-related fatality).
According to The Injury Fact Book , sports and recreation account for "the majority of drownings, many firearm fatalities, about 10 percent of all brain injuries ... 7 percent of spinal cord injuries ... and 13 percent of facial injuries treated in hospitals."
(A hauntingly large 68.4 percent of drownings, however, are attributable to other or unspecified causes.)