ICD-10-CM › V00-Y99 › W20-W49 › W31.3 Contact with prime movers › W31.3XXS

W31.3XXS

Contact with prime movers, sequela

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2016 onwards.

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2007 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.

  1. FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Contact with prime movers, sequela

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 W31 Contact with other and unspecified machinery

Seventh character required

  • The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category W31

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • contact with agricultural machinery (W30.-)
  • contact with machinery in transport under own power or being towed by a vehicle (V01-V99)
  • 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.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
W31.3XXA Contact with prime movers, initial encounter Valid
W31.3XXD Contact with prime movers, subsequent encounter Valid