V93.5Explosion on board watercraft

V93.5 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for explosion on board watercraft. It belongs to category V93 (other injury due to accident on board watercraft, without 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 6 subcodes must be used instead.

Within V93 (other injury due to accident on board watercraft, without accident to watercraft), V93.5 is specifically for explosion on board watercraft. Related codes cover burn due to localized fire on board watercraft (V93.0), other burn on board watercraft (V93.1), heat exposure on board watercraft (V93.2), fall on board watercraft (V93.3), struck by falling object on board watercraft (V93.4), machinery accident on board watercraft (V93.6) and other injury due to other accident on board watercraft (V93.8).

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.

The conditions in its Excludes2 note aren't part of V93.5, but may be coded alongside it if the patient has both: fire on board watercraft (V93.0-).

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