Apparatus, Traction, Non-Powered
Adverse-event figures are drawn from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database, refreshed March 2026, see our methodology.
OpenFDA device adverse-event casebook.
FDA Class I (lowest regulatory risk tier, general controls), regulated under 21 CFR §888.5850 (Orthopedic panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Apparatus, Traction, Non-Powered LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#877 of 1000 · 519 reports · 1992–2026
- BOOK 519 reports
- RANK #877 of 1000
- DEATH 3 death-typed
- INJ 88 injury-typed
- MALF 421 malfunction
- SPAN 1992–2026
- PEAK 2013: 49
- PHOTO System
Nearest event-volume peer: System, Test, Rheumatoid Factor (1 report gap)
Apparatus, Traction, Non-Powered sits #877 of 1000 among tracked device types with 519 MAUDE reports spanning 1992–2026. Rank counts report volume, not confirmed device fault. Event_type Death / Injury / Malfunction are one code per report — not the same population as patient-outcome rows ( methodology). Read with this device → · Lead manufacturer → · Similar-volume device →
Malfunction reports run above the device-type norm
Apparatus, Traction, Non-Powered carries 81.1% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 16.3pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 0.6% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-0.9 pp)
- INJ 17.0% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-13.3 pp)
- MALF 81.1% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+16.3 pp)
Lead product-problem code Break is 26% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer SMITH & NEPHEW, INC. accounts for 24% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 55% of location-tagged rows .
Apparatus, Traction, Non-Powered in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Display
Display, Cathode-Ray Tube, Medical
525 reports
- Bur, Dental
Bur, Dental
523 reports
- Unit
Unit, X-Ray, Extraoral With Timer
521 reports
- Apparatus (this)
Apparatus, Traction, Non-Powered
519 reports
- System
System, Test, Rheumatoid Factor
518 reports
- Total
Total, Prostate Specific Antigen (Noncomplexed & Complexed) For Detection Of Prostate Cancer
518 reports
What this shows Apparatus, Traction, Non-Powered carries 519 MAUDE reports, ranked #877 of 1000.
Event Types
Patient Outcomes
FDA patient-outcome codes (separate from event_type). Percentages use this chart's row total.
Top Product Problems
Yearly Trend
Reports fell to 20 in 2025, down from an average of 33 in the two years before.
Related Entities for Apparatus, Traction, Non-Powered
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Apparatus, Traction, Non-Powered: nearest by total report volume and nearest by death-typed count, each floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhoods stay in the advertised mass.
Similar report volume
Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (519 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (3 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Apparatus, Traction, Non-Powered are informational only and are not clinical advice. Report codes do not prove device causation. Consult a qualified clinician before acting on this data.
Every figure on PlainHospital is rendered directly from federal source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Event-type mix on this page is computed from FDA MAUDE codes for Apparatus, Traction, Non-Powered; corpus means use device types with ≥100 reports. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.