HOMICIDE AND INJURY PURPOSELY INFLICTED BY OTHER PERSONS (E960-E969)

• Includes: injuries inflicted by another person with intent to injure or kill, by any means
• Excludes: injuries due to:
  • legal intervention (E970-E978)
  • operations of war (E990-E999)
• E960 Fight, brawl, rape
  • E960.0 Unarmed fight or brawl
    • Beatings NOS
    • Brawl or fight with hands, fists, feet
    • Injured or killed in fight NOS
    • Excludes: homicidal:
      • injury by weapons (E965.0-E966, E969)
      • strangulation (E963)
      • submersion (E964)
  • E960.1 Rape
• E961 Assault by corrosive or caustic substance, except poisoning
  • Injury or death purposely caused by corrosive or caustic substance, such as:
    • acid [any]
    • corrosive substance
    • vitriol
  • Excludes: burns from hot liquid (E968.3)
    • chemical burns from swallowing a corrosive substance (E962.0-E962.9)
• E962 Assault by poisoning
  • E962.0 Drugs and medicinal substances
    • Homicidal poisoning by any drug or medicinal substance
  • E962.1 Other solid and liquid substances
  • E962.2 Other gases and vapors
  • E962.9 Unspecified poisoning
• E963 Assault by hanging and strangulation
  • Homicidal (attempt):
    • garrotting or ligature
    • hanging
    • strangulation
    • suffocation
• E964 Assault by submersion [drowning]
• E965 Assault by firearms and explosives
  • E965.0 Handgun
    • Pistol
    • Revolver
  • E965.1 Shotgun
  • E965.2 Hunting rifle
  • E965.3 Military firearms
  • E965.4 Other and unspecified firearm
  • E965.5 Antipersonnel bomb
  • E965.6 Gasoline bomb
  • E965.7 Letter bomb
  • E965.8 Other specified explosive
    • Bomb NOS (placed in):
      • car
      • house
    • Dynamite
  • E965.9 Unspecified explosive
• E966 Assault by cutting and piercing instrument
  • Assassination (attempt), homicide (attempt) by any instrument classifiable under E920
    • Homicidal:
      • cut any part of body
      • puncture any part of body
      • stab any part of body
    • Stabbed
• E967 Child battering and other maltreatment
  • E967.0 By parent
  • E967.1 By other specified person
  • E967.9 By unspecified person
• E968 Assault by other and unspecified means
  • E968.0 Fire
    • Arson
    • Homicidal burns NOS
    • Excludes: burns from hot liquid (E968.3)
  • E968.1 Pushing from a high place
  • E968.2 Striking by blunt or thrown object
  • E968.3 Hot liquid
    • Homicidal burns by scalding
  • E968.4 Criminal neglect
    • Abandonment of child, infant, or other helpless person with intent to injure or kill
  • E968.5 Transport vehicle
    • Being struck by other vehicle or run down with intent to injure
    • Pushed in front of, thrown from, or dragged by moving vehicle with intent to injure
  • E968.8 Other specified means
    • Bite of human being
  • E968.9 Unspecified means
    • Assassination (attempt) NOS
    • Homicidal (attempt):
      • injury NOS
      • wound NOS
    • Manslaughter (nonaccidental)
    • Murder (attempt) NOS
    • Violence, non-accidental
• E969 Late effects of injury purposely inflicted by other person
  • Note: This category is to be used to indicate circumstances classifiable to E960-E968 as the cause of death or disability from late effects, which are themselves classifiable elsewhere. The "late effects" include conditions reported as such, or as sequelae which may occur at any time after the injury purposely inflicted by another person.