Section: Exposure to inanimate mechanical forces (W20-W49)

 Chapter Notes

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)

Category List

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

W44 - Foreign body entering into or through a natural orifice

W45 - Foreign body or object entering through skin

W46 - Contact with hypodermic needle

W49 - Exposure to other inanimate mechanical forces