Concerns about death by coconut have been reported extensively in mainstream media sources. Such reports include:
In February 1985, The New York Times reported on the hazards posed by coconut trees and noted that "falling coconuts could strike a person on the ground with a force of almost 2,000 pounds [9 kilonewtons]".
1777: King Tetui of Mangaia in the Cook Islands had a concubine who died after being struck by "a falling green nut".
1833: Four people died from falling coconuts on the island of Sri Lanka.
JANUARY 1943: US Marine was killed in his sleep when struck in the head by a falling coconut near Henderson Field on Guadalcanal.
AUGUST 26 1952: Seven-month-old baby died when she was struck in the head by a coconut while being held by her mother outside Butterworth, Penang.
1966: Resident of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, was killed while eating lunch beneath a coconut tree when struck in the face by a falling coconut.
JULY 1973: Two-year-old girl was killed and her aunt injured during a family picnic at Kapiolani Beach Center near Diamond Head, Hawaii, when a cluster of 57 coconuts weighing more than 45 kg (100 lb) fell from a tree. The incident was "Hawaii's first recorded fatality from falling coconuts".
NOVEMBER 1991: Mourner was killed by a falling coconut while attending a funeral at a cemetery in southern Sri Lanka.
APRIL 2001: Resident of Vanuatu was killed by a falling coconut while seeking shelter from adverse weather conditions relating to Cyclone Sose.
AUGUST 15 2001: In Kampung Tanjung Badang, Malaysia, 59-year-old Mamat Kundur was killed when a monkey used to harvest coconuts from trees dropped a coconut on his head.
AUGUST 1 2002: In Raub, Pahang, Malaysia, 6-month-old Nurul Emilia Zulaika Nasaruddin, died after a coconut fell into the child's crib and struck the child.
SEPTEMBER 22 2003: Alsoin Raub, Pahang, Malaysia, 65-year-old Deraman Ghomat was waiting to catch a bus. After the wind became stronger and rain started to fall, a coconut fell and killed him.
MARCH 2009: 48-year-old Luelit Janchoom, in Nakhon Si Thammarat Province of Thailand, was killed when a monkey used to harvest coconuts furiously kicked them down to his master, hitting his head.
MAY 2010: One-and-a-half-month-old girl was killed when a falling coconut struck her in the head during a religious ceremony outside the family's home in Thiruvananthapuram, India.
AUGUST 2010: 69-year-old man was killed by a coconut that fell out of a 12-meter (39 ft) palm tree as he sat in a rocking chair outside his home in Melgar, Colombia.
2013: a man in Colombo, Sri Lanka, was killed after a coconut fell on his head.
JUNE 2021: 11-month-old boy was killed by a falling coconut in Haunsabhavi, Karnataka, India.
AUGUST 2021: 20-year-old man in Tandag City, Philippines, was killed after four coconuts hit him during a magnitude 7.1 earthquake.
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