Deaths to Report to Coroner
As listed in the North Dakota Century Code 11-19.1-01 part 5:
- Obvious or suspected homicidal, suicidal, or accidental injury
- Firearm injury
- Severe, unexplained injury
- Occupant or pedestrian motor vehicle injury
- An injury to a minor
- Fire, chemical, electrical, or radiation
- Starvation
- Unidentified or skeletonized human remains
- Drowning
- Suffocation, smothering, or strangulation
- Poisoning or illegal drug use
- Prior child abuse or neglect assessment concerns
- Open child protection service case on the victim
- Victim is in the custody of the department of human services, county social services, the department of corrections and rehabilitation or other correctional facility, or law enforcement
- Unexplainable death or death in an undetermined manner
- Suspected sexual assault
- Any other suspicious factor