ICD-10-CM › V00-Y99 › W20-W49 › W31 Contact with other and unspecified... › W31.9
Contact with unspecified machinery
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:
- W31.9XXA Contact with unspecified machinery, initial encounter
- W31.9XXD Contact with unspecified machinery, subsequent encounter
- W31.9XXS Contact with unspecified machinery, 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 unspecified machinery
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.
- 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
- Cut, cutting > machine NEC
- Contact > with > machine, machinery
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| W31.0 | Contact with mining and earth-drilling machinery | Not billable |
| W31.1 | Contact with metalworking machines | Not billable |
| W31.2 | Contact with powered woodworking and forming machines | Not billable |
| W31.3 | Contact with prime movers | Not billable |
| W31.8 | Contact with other specified machinery | Not billable |