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Part 4, Chapter 3: Manual Appendix I

Definitions of External Cause of Injury Terms

The following give the ICD-9-CM E-Codes for the "External Cause of Injury" terms listed on the report form

Recode	External Cause of Injury	ICD-9-CM E-Code
01	MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENT Motor vehicle traffic accidents Nontraffic motor vehicle accidents Other road vehicle accidents Late effects of motor vehicle accidents	E810-829, E929.0 E810-819 E820-825 E826-829 E929.0
03	WATER TRANSPORT Water transport accidents Late effects of water transport accidents	E830-838, E929.1 E929.1
04	AIR TRANSPORT Air and space transport accidents	E840-845
06	ACCIDENTAL FALLS Accidental falls Late effects of accidental falls	E880-899, E929.3 E880-899 E929.3
07	FIRES AND FLAMES Accidents caused by fire and flames Late effects of accident caused by fire	E890-899, E929.4 E890-899 E929.4
08	ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS Accidents due to natural and environmental factors Late effects of accidents due to natural and environmental factors	E900-904, E907-909, E929.5 E900-904, E907-909 E929.5
09	STINGS AND VENOMS Venomous animals and plants as the cause of poisoning and toxic reactions	E905
10	ANIMAL RELATED, INCLUDING BITES Other animal related, including bites	E906
11	DROWNING AND SUBMERSION Accidental drowning and submersion	E910
12	CUTTING AND PIERCING OBJECTS Accidents caused by cutting or piercing instruments or objects	E920
13	FIREARMS ACCIDENTS Accidents caused by firearm missile	E922
14	MACHINERY Accidents caused by machinery	E919
15	SUICIDE ATTEMPT Suicide and self-inflicted injury	E950-959
16	INJ. PURPOSELY INFLICTED BY OTHERS Homicide and injury purposely inflicted by other persons, excluding child battering and other mistreatment	E960-966, E968-969
17	BATTERED CHILD Child battering and other maltreatment (Child: 0-14 years)	E967
18	UNDETERMINED CAUSE Injury undetermined whether accidentally or purposely inflicted	E980-989
19	OTHER CAUSES Railway accidents Vehicle accidents not elsewhere classifiable Misadventures to patients during surgical & medical care Surgical & medical procedures as the cause of abnormal reaction of patient or later complication, without mention of misadventure at the time of procedure Accidents caused by suffocation and foreign bodies Accidents cased by an object, e.g., struck by object, caught in or between objects Accident caused by explosion of pressure vessel, explosive material, hot substance or object, caustic or corrosive material, steam, electric current, exposure to radiation, overexertion and strenuous movements Late effects of other and unspecified accidents Drugs, medical and biological substances causing adverse effects in therapeutic use Legal intervention Injury resulting from operations of war	See Below E800-807 E846-848 E870-876 E878-879 E911-915 E916-918 E921, 923-928 E929.8-929.9 E930-949 E970-978 E990-999
17	Battered Child - injury or assault by any mean purposely inflicted by persons to children, pediatric age, 0-14 years.	ICDA E-Code E968 part
18	Undetermined Causes: Injury undetermined whether accidentally or purposely inflicted - poisoning, injury by firearms, explosives, cutting and piercing instruments or other means, falling from high places, etc., undetermined whether accidentally or purposely inflicted.	ICDA E-Code E980-989
19	Other Causes: Railway accidents - involving collision with rolling stock; with other object; derailment w/o antecedent collision; explosion, fire, burning, fall in, on, or from train; etc. Other accidents - inhalation and ingestion of food or other object causing obstruction or suffocation; foreign body entering eye, adnexa or other orifice; struck by falling object; caught in or between objects; overexertion and strenuous movements; accidents caused by explosion of pressure vessel, by explosive material, by hot substance, corrosive liquid and steam, by electric current, by radiation; etc. Surgical and medical complications and misadventures - in operative therapeutic procedures; in diagnostic procedures; in prophylaxis with bacterial and other vaccines; etc. Late effects of accidental injury - of motor vehicle and other transport accidents; of accidental poisoning or fall; of accident caused by fire or due to natural and environmental factors; of other accidents, surgical operation, irradiation and other surgical and medical procedures. Legal intervention - injury due to legal intervention, by any means; legal execution. Injury resulting from operations of war - including late effects.	ICDA E-Code ICDA E-Code E800-807 ICDA E-Code E911-919, 921-923, 924-927, 929 ICDA E-Code E930-936 ICDA E-Code E940-949 ICDA E-Code E970-978 ICDA E-Code E990-999

For more detail on definitions, see International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Volume I, pages 930-1053.

Foregoing taken from international Classification of Diseases, Adapted, Eighth Revision, Volume I, Pages 37-45.