Exposure to inanimate mechanical forces W20-W49
The ICD10 section code for "Exposure to inanimate mechanical forces" is W20-W49.
Type 1 Excludes:
Codes: = Billable
- W20 Struck by thrown, projected or falling object
- W21 Striking against or struck by sports equipment
- W22 Striking against or struck by other objects
- W23 Caught, crushed, jammed or pinched in or between objects
- W24 Contact with lifting and transmission devices, not elsewhere classified
- W25 Contact with sharp glass
- W26 Contact with other sharp objects
- W27 Contact with nonpowered hand tool
- W28 Contact with powered lawn mower
- W29 Contact with other powered hand tools and household machinery
- W30 Contact with agricultural machinery
- W31 Contact with other and unspecified machinery
- W32 Accidental handgun discharge and malfunction
- W33 Accidental rifle, shotgun and larger firearm discharge and malfunction
- W34 Accidental discharge and malfunction from other and unspecified firearms and guns
- W35 Explosion and rupture of boiler
- W36 Explosion and rupture of gas cylinder
- W37 Explosion and rupture of pressurized tire, pipe or hose
- W38 Explosion and rupture of other specified pressurized devices
- W39 Discharge of firework
- W40 Explosion of other materials
- W42 Exposure to noise
- W45 Foreign body or object entering through skin
- W46 Contact with hypodermic needle
- W49 Exposure to other inanimate mechanical forces