ICD-10-CM › V00-Y99 › W20-W49 › W29 Contact with other powered hand... › W29.4
Contact with nail gun
Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.
Submit one of these 3 more specific codes instead:
- W29.4XXA Contact with nail gun, initial encounter
- W29.4XXD Contact with nail gun, subsequent encounter
- W29.4XXS Contact with nail gun, sequela
This code requires a seventh character. See the rule below.
What has happened to this code
Every change the publisher made, from 2014 to now. Entries marked draft are from the pre-implementation releases: ICD-10 took effect on 1 October 2015, so nothing before FY2016 was ever valid on a claim.
- FY2014 Added to the draft code set draft Contact with nail gun
Official coding rules
Published by CDC for FY2027. A rule attached to a category binds every code beneath it, so the rules inherited from this code's ancestors are shown with the code they come from.
Inherited from W29 Contact with other powered hand tools and household machinery
Seventh character required
- The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category W29
Excludes1 - never coded here
- contact with commercial machinery (W31.82)
- contact with hot household appliance (X15)
- contact with nonpowered hand tool (W27.-)
- exposure to electric current (W86)
Inherited from the W20-W49 section Exposure to inanimate mechanical forces (W20-W49)
Excludes1 - never coded here
- assault (X92-Y09)
- contact or collision with animals or persons (W50-W64)
- exposure to inanimate mechanical forces involving military or war operations (Y36.-, Y37.-)
- intentional self-harm (X71-X83)
How CDC's index refers to this code
Wording from the official alphabetic index. Much of it appears nowhere in the code description, which is why a search for the everyday phrase so often finds nothing.
- Immersion
- Submersion
- Stab, stabbing
- Sinking > watercraft
- Overturning > watercraft
- Trapped > between objects
- Contact > with > marine > animal > mammal
- Accident > watercraft > causing > drowning
- Contact > with > animal NEC > marine > mammal
- Drowning > resulting from accident to watercraft
- Accident > diving > with > drowning or submersion
- Drowning > due to > jumping into water from watercraft
- Striking against > object > with > drowning or submersion
- Accident > transport > occupant > watercraft NOS > causing drowning
- Drowning > due to > fall overboard > resulting from > accident to watercraft
- Nail > contact with > gun
- Contact > with > rivet gun
- Contact > with > nail > gun
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| W29.0 | Contact with powered kitchen appliance | Not billable |
| W29.1 | Contact with electric knife | Not billable |
| W29.2 | Contact with other powered household machinery | Not billable |
| W29.3 | Contact with powered garden and outdoor hand tools and machinery | Not billable |
| W29.8 | Contact with other powered hand tools and household machinery | Not billable |