The bug
The death message "death.fell.accident.water" and its localization is missing. It is about getting fall damage in water.
How to reproduce
Summon a water area using the following command.
/fill ~1 ~-1 ~1 ~-1 ~-1 ~-1 minecraft:water
Standing in the water, execute the following command provided below.
/damage @s 100 fall
→ ❌ When you die, the death message shown is
death.fell.accident.water
.
Note that there are also some edge cases where this death message is shown without using commands, though these are more difficult to reproduce.
Linked issues
is duplicated by 20
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It's really hard to replicate, but it involves combined damage from fall and from water in a short period of time. I can see that in some older versions it had a string "%s fell out of water" but that's currently missing in assets\minecraft\lang\en_us.json". The string has even been in Crowdin for at least 2 years, but for some reason it's not used now, while it's still possible to get this message.

This is caused by, well falling out of water and dying from a high place.

Probably caused by the fix to MC-173487

I just reported the accident and describe the occurrence. Here is where my bug report is: MC-197393
Here's the image attached:
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Can confirm in 1.21.

As of 1.21,
I can only recreate this glitch naturally with a minecart at heights 21, 25, 28, 31, 34, and 37. It seems to only be within this range at multiples of 3 for some reason.

This missing lang file entry is highlighted in Joe Hills' YouTube video as of today, existing under 1.21.5

This Bug can be easily fixed by Mojang by simply adding a en_us.json
entry named death.fell.accident.water
– Maybe make it a funny message like Player failed to land gently in water
?
What exactly was the player doing at the time? The chat does indicate use of server mods, can this be reproduced with no mods at all?