Chapter XX
External causes of morbidity and mortality
(V01-Y98)
NCCS
Rules
Conventions
GCS
DCS.XIX.8
DChS.XX.1
DChS.XX.2
Legal intervention and operations of war
(Y35-Y36)
Modifier-Hint
Y35
Legal intervention
Incl.:
injuries inflicted by the police or other law-enforcing agents, including military on duty, in the course of arresting or attempting to arrest lawbreakers, suppressing disturbances, maintaining order, and other legal action
Y35.0
Legal intervention involving firearm discharge
Incl.:
Legal intervention with:
machine gun
revolver
rifle pellet or rubber bullet
Y35.1
Legal intervention involving explosives
Incl.:
Legal intervention with:
dynamite
explosive shell
grenade
mortar bomb
Y35.2
Legal intervention involving gas
Incl.:
Asphyxiation by gas
Injury by tear gas
Poisoning by gas
due to legal intervention
Y35.3
Legal intervention involving blunt objects
Incl.:
Hit, struck by:
baton
blunt object
stave
during legal intervention
Y35.4
Legal intervention involving sharp objects
Incl.:
Cut
Injured by bayonet
Stabbed
during legal intervention
Y35.5
Legal execution
Incl.:
Any execution performed at the behest of the judiciary or ruling authority [whether permanent or temporary], such as:
asphyxiation by gas
beheading, decapitation (by guillotine)
capital punishment
electrocution
hanging
poisoning
shooting
Y35.6
Legal intervention involving other specified means
Incl.:
Manhandling
Y35.7
Legal intervention, means unspecified
Y36
Operations of war
Note:
Injuries due to operations of war occurring after cessation of hostilities are classified to Y36.8.
Incl.:
injuries to military personnel and civilians caused by war and civil insurrection
Y36.0
War operations involving explosion of marine weapons
Incl.:
Depth-charge
Marine mine
Mine NOS, at sea or in harbour
Sea-based artillery shell
Torpedo
Underwater blast
Y36.1
War operations involving destruction of aircraft
Incl.:
Aircraft:
burned
exploded
shot down
Crushed by falling aircraft
Y36.2
War operations involving other explosions and fragments
Incl.:
Accidental explosion of:
munitions being used in war
own weapons
Antipersonnel bomb (fragments)
Explosion (of):
artillery shell
breech-block
cannon block
mortar bomb
Fragments from:
artillery shell
bomb
grenade
guided missile
land-mine
rocket
shell
shrapnel
Mine NOS
during war operations
Y36.3
War operations involving fires, conflagrations and hot substances
Incl.:
Asphyxia
Burns
Other injury
originating from fire caused directly by a fire-producing device or indirectly by any conventional weapon
Petrol bomb
Y36.4
War operations involving firearm discharge and other forms of conventional warfare
Incl.:
Battle wounds
Bayonet injury
Bullet:
carbine
machine gun
pistol
rifle
rubber (rifle)
Drowned in war operations NOS
Pellets (shotgun)
Y36.5
War operations involving nuclear weapons
Incl.:
Blast effects
Exposure to ionizing radiation from nuclear weapon
Fireball effects
Heat
Other direct and secondary effects of nuclear weapons
Y36.6
War operations involving biological weapons
Y36.7
War operations involving chemical weapons and other forms of unconventional warfare
Incl.:
Gases, fumes and chemicals
Lasers
Y36.8
War operations occurring after cessation of hostilities
Incl.:
Injuries by explosion of bombs or mines placed in the course of operations of war, if the explosion occurred after cessation of hostilities
Injuries due to operations of war and classifiable to Y36.0-Y36.7 or Y36.9 but occurring after cessation of hostilities
Y36.9
War operations, unspecified