The detailed number of people who die of such suffocation in each year is unknown, however, according to a survey conducted by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, 168 cases were caused by mochi of the 803 cases which could be grasped in 2006 of the cases where people are transported to emergency medical care centers, etc., due to suffocation caused by food.
年間の詳しい死者数は不明であるが、厚労省の調査では、2006年中に食品を原因とする窒息で救命救急センターなどに搬送された事例は、把握できた計803件のうち、餅は168件に上った。