V81.8Occupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured in other specified railway accidents

V81.8 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for occupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured in other specified railway accidents. 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 4 subcodes must be used instead.

Within V81, choose V81.8 (Occupant of railway train or railway vehicle injured in other specified railway accidents) only when documentation doesn't support a more specific option: 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 or hit by rolling stock (V81.2), 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) 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.