W22.041Striking against wall of swimming pool causing drowning and submersion

W22.041 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for striking against wall of swimming pool causing drowning and submersion. It belongs to category W22 (striking against or struck by other objects), block W20-W49 (exposure to inanimate mechanical forces) 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 W22.04 (striking against wall of swimming pool), W22.041 is specifically for striking against wall of swimming pool causing drowning and submersion. Related codes cover causing other injury (W22.042).

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.

Don't report W22.041 together with the conditions in its Excludes1 note: drowning and submersion while swimming without striking against wall (W67).

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