V90.26Drowning and submersion due to falling or jumping from burning (nonpowered) inflatable craft

V90.26 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for drowning and submersion due to falling or jumping from burning (nonpowered) inflatable craft. It belongs to category V90 (drowning and submersion due to accident to watercraft), block V90-V94 (water 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 V90.2 (drowning and submersion due to falling or jumping from burning watercraft), V90.26 is specifically for drowning and submersion due to falling or jumping from burning (nonpowered) inflatable craft. Related codes cover burning merchant ship (V90.20), burning passenger ship (V90.21), burning fishing boat (V90.22), other burning powered watercraft (V90.23), burning sailboat (V90.24), burning canoe or kayak (V90.25), burning water-skis (V90.27), other burning unpowered watercraft (V90.28) 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.