V91.82 Other injury due to other accident to fishing boat

ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code V91.82: Other injury due to other accident to fishing boat

ICD-10-CM code V91.82 identifies an other injury due to an other accident to a fishing boat. The active terminology record classifies this concept under the parent code V91.8 for watercraft accidents. The semantic type is Injury or Poisoning. Public sources also describe general safety hazards on commercial fishing vessels. 1 2

Plain-language overview

Code V91.82 carries the official preferred name of Other injury due to other accident to fishing boat, and its active terminology record contains no narrower child concepts. 1

What this code represents

The semantic type assigned to V91.82 is Injury or Poisoning, and it falls under the parent concept V91.8, which covers other injuries due to other accidents to watercraft. 1

A separate terminology entry for V91.82XA lists V91.82 as the base code for other injury due to other accident to fishing boat, while noting zero child concepts for that specific extension. 4

Documentation considerations

The terminology record for V91.82 assigns a semantic type of Injury or Poisoning, which provides a conceptual classification for this specific fishing boat accident injury. 1

Clinical context

Commercial fishing vessels face potential safety hazards including onboard medical emergencies, fires, equipment failure, flooding, man overboard, and capsizing, which can lead to injuries. 2

Vessel operators conduct safety drills at the beginning of and during the fishing season to ensure rapid and effective crew response to an accident and to reduce the potential for injury. 2

Coverage and utilization context

Federal centers provide research for agriculture, fishing, and forestry health and safety, and estimates of fatal and non-fatal injury rates vary geographically and temporally based on different methods. 3

What the sources add

While the V91.82 terminology record provides the code definition for a fishing boat accident injury, the commercial fishing safety study describes operational hazards and crew safety drills. 1 2

Questions to verify

The supplied excerpts do not establish whether V91.82 is a billable code for reimbursement, nor do they specify the required encounter type or laterality modifiers for clinical claims. 1 4

Sources

1. ICD-10-CM V91.82 terminology record — National Cancer Institute Enterprise Vocabulary Services; accessed 2026-07-27.
2. OregOn Crab Fishing saFety assessment — stacks.cdc.gov; accessed 2026-07-27.
3. Establishing Methodology for Occupational Injury ... — stacks.cdc.gov; accessed 2026-07-27.
4. EVS Explore — evsexplore.semantics.cancer.gov; accessed 2026-07-27.
5. EVS Explore — evsexplore.semantics.cancer.gov; accessed 2026-07-27.