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Contact with other powered hand tools and household machinery (W29)

ICD-10 code W29 covers injuries caused by contact with powered hand tools and household machinery. These codes identify accidents involving appliances or equipment powered by electricity or other sources commonly found in homes and gardens.

The section includes detailed subcategories like W29.0 for powered kitchen appliances (such as electric mixers, can openers, or garbage disposals), and W29.1 for electric knives. Other specific codes like W29.3 describe contact with powered garden tools including hedge clippers or chainsaws, while W29.4 is reserved for nail gun accidents. The W29.8 series captures injuries from a range of other powered hand tools like drills, staple guns, and angle grinders. Each has extensions denoting initial treatment, subsequent care, or late effects. These codes help medical coders accurately capture the cause of trauma related to powered household and garden devices, ensuring clarity in documentation for accidents caused by these specific tools.

  • External causes of morbidity and mortality (V01–Y99)

    • Exposure to inanimate mechanical forces (W20-W49)

        • Contact with other powered hand tools and household machinery (W29)

        • W29 Contact with other powered hand tools and household machinery
        • W29.0 Contact with powered kitchen appliance
        • W29.0XXA Contact with powered kitchen appliance, initial encounter
        • W29.0XXD Contact with powered kitchen appliance, subsequent encounter
        • W29.0XXS Contact with powered kitchen appliance, sequela
        • W29.1 Contact with electric knife
        • W29.1XXA Contact with electric knife, initial encounter
        • W29.1XXD Contact with electric knife, subsequent encounter
        • W29.1XXS Contact with electric knife, sequela
        • W29.2 Contact with other powered household machinery
        • W29.2XXA Contact with other powered household machinery, initial encounter
        • W29.2XXD Contact with other powered household machinery, subsequent encounter
        • W29.2XXS Contact with other powered household machinery, sequela
        • W29.3 Contact with powered garden and outdoor hand tools and machinery
        • W29.3XXA Contact with powered garden and outdoor hand tools and machinery, initial encounter
        • W29.3XXD Contact with powered garden and outdoor hand tools and machinery, subsequent encounter
        • W29.3XXS Contact with powered garden and outdoor hand tools and machinery, sequela
        • W29.4 Contact with nail gun
        • W29.4XXA Contact with nail gun, initial encounter
        • W29.4XXD Contact with nail gun, subsequent encounter
        • W29.4XXS Contact with nail gun, sequela
        • W29.8 Contact with other powered hand tools and household machinery
        • W29.8XXA Contact with other powered hand tools and household machinery, initial encounter
        • W29.8XXD Contact with other powered hand tools and household machinery, subsequent encounter
        • W29.8XXS Contact with other powered hand tools and household machinery, sequela

Instructional Notations

Type 1 Excludes

A type 1 excludes note is a pure excludes note. It means "NOT CODED HERE!" An Excludes1 note indicates that the code excluded should never be used at the same time as the code above the Excludes1 note. An Excludes1 is used when two conditions cannot occur together, such as a congenital form versus an acquired form of the same condition.

  • contact with commercial machinery W31.82
  • contact with hot household appliance X15
  • contact with nonpowered hand tool W27
  • exposure to electric current W86

7th Character Note

Certain ICD-10-CM categories have applicable 7th characters. The applicable 7th character is required for all codes within the category, or as the notes in the Tabular List instruct. The 7th character must always be the 7th character in the data field. If a code that requires a 7th character is not 6 characters, a placeholder X must be used to fill in the empty characters.

  • The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category W29

7th Character

Indicates that a seventh character is to be assigned to codes in a subcategory.

  • A - initial encounter
  • D - subsequent encounter
  • S - sequela