2025 ICD-10-CM code W30
(Active) Effective Date: N/A Revision Date: N/A Deletion Date: N/A External causes of morbidity - Exposure to inanimate mechanical forces Chapter 20: External causes of morbidity and mortality Feed
Contact with agricultural machinery, including animal-powered machines.
Not applicable to ICD-10 codes. Modifiers are used with CPT and HCPCS codes.
The medical necessity is established by the presence of an injury directly caused by contact with agricultural machinery, requiring medical attention.
The clinical responsibility is documentation of the injury resulting from contact with agricultural machinery. This includes assessment of the injury, treatment provided, and any follow-up care.
- Chapter 20: External causes of morbidity and mortality
- W00-X59: Accidents; W20-W49: Exposure to inanimate mechanical forces
In simple words: This code is used when someone gets hurt because of contact with farm equipment like tractors, harvesters, or other machinery used on farms. This doesn't include accidents involving vehicles used to transport farm products.
This code classifies injuries resulting from contact with agricultural machinery.It encompasses a range of equipment, including animal-powered farm machinery, combine harvesters, hay derricks, and other farm machinery.Excludes injuries from agricultural transport vehicles (coded V01-V99), explosions in grain stores (W40.8), and exposure to electric current (W86).
Example 1: A farmer sustains a laceration to the arm while operating a combine harvester., A farmhand is struck by a piece of equipment while working with a hay baler., A child playing near a tractor suffers a crushed foot.
Detailed description of the accident, type of machinery involved, nature and extent of the injury, treatment administered, and any subsequent complications.
** This code should be used as a secondary code, following a code from Chapter 19 (Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes) that specifies the nature of the injury.
- Revenue Code: Unknown
- RVU: Not applicable to ICD-10 codes. RVUs are associated with CPT codes used for procedure billing.
- Global Days: Not applicable to ICD-10 codes. Global days are relevant to surgical procedures coded using CPT codes.
- Payment Status: Active
- Modifier TC rule: Not applicable to ICD-10 codes. TC modifiers apply to CPT codes.
- Fee Schedule: Not applicable to ICD-10 codes. Fee schedules relate to CPT and HCPCS codes.
- Specialties:Emergency medicine, occupational medicine, orthopedics
- Place of Service:Emergency Room - Hospital, Office, Urgent Care Facility