V81.2Occupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured in collision with or hit by rolling stock

V81.2 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for occupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured in collision with or hit by rolling stock. It belongs to category V81 (occupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured in transport accident), block V80-V89 (other land transport accidents) and chapter 20 (external causes of morbidity). It is a header code, so it can't be reported by itself; one of its 3 subcodes must be used instead.

Within V81 (occupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured in transport accident), V81.2 is specifically for occupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured in collision with or hit by rolling stock. Related codes cover occupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured in collision with motor vehicle in nontraffic accident (V81.0), occupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured in collision with motor vehicle in traffic accident (V81.1), occupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured in collision with other object (V81.3), person injured while boarding or alighting from railway train or railway vehicle (V81.4), occupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured by fall in railway train or railway vehicle (V81.5), occupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured by fall from railway train or railway vehicle (V81.6), occupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured in derailment without antecedent collision (V81.7), occupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured in other specified railway accidents (V81.8) and 1 more.

Codes in this range require a 7th character: A for initial encounter, D for subsequent encounter and S for sequela. Use placeholder "X" characters to fill any empty positions before the 7th character.

It has been part of ICD-10-CM since the code set took effect on October 1, 2015 and hasn't changed since.