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Applier, Staple, Surgical,

Adverse-event figures are drawn from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database, refreshed March 2026, see our methodology.

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openFDA event book Applier, Staple, Surgical, LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#844 of 1000 · 539 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 539 reports
  • RANK #844 of 1000
  • DEATH 0 death-typed
  • INJ 85 injury-typed
  • MALF 453 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 2015: 119
  • PHOTO Bag

Nearest event-volume peer: Bag, Urinary, Ileostomy (0 report gap)

Applier, Staple, Surgical, sits #844 of 1000 among tracked device types with 539 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 →

Event-type mix vs corpus

Shares of FDA event_type codes on this device type, compared with the mean across 1,000 device types that have ≥100 MAUDE reports. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 0.0% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.5 pp)
  • INJ 15.8% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-14.7 pp)
  • MALF 84.0% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+19.5 pp)

Lead product-problem code Device-Device Incompatibility is 43% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer DEPUY MITEK LLC US accounts for 51% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 51% of location-tagged rows .

Applier, Staple, Surgical, in the event-volume neighbourhood

FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers

reports

What this shows Applier, Staple, Surgical, carries 539 MAUDE reports, ranked #844 of 1000.

Source FDA MAUDE via openFDA, aggregated by PlainHospital As of August 2026

Event Types

Malfunction 453 (84.0%)
Injury 85 (15.8%)
1 (0.2%)

Patient Outcomes

FDA patient-outcome codes (separate from event_type). Percentages use this chart's row total.

458 (84.5%)
Required Intervention 41 (7.6%)
Other 39 (7.2%)
R 3 (0.6%)
Congenital Anomaly 1 (0.2%)

Top Product Problems

Device-Device Incompatibility 153
Positioning Failure 43
Activation, Positioning or Separation Problem 40
Break 20
Material Deformation 17
Premature Activation 16
Mechanical Jam 13
Use of Device Problem 10
Firing Problem 8
Detachment of Device or Device Component 5
Failure to Fire 5
Activation Problem 4
Mechanical Problem 4
Unintended Movement 4
Loose or Intermittent Connection 3
Material Twisted/Bent 3
Misfire 3
Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 2
Deformation Due to Compressive Stress 2
Detachment Of Device Component 2

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 1
94
1994: 1
04
2004: 1
05
2005: 2
08
2008: 1
09
2009: 1
11
2011: 12
12
2012: 19
13
2013: 10
14
2014: 40
15
2015: 119
16
2016: 19
17
2017: 14
18
2018: 74
19
2019: 41
20
2020: 19
21
2021: 20
22
2022: 18
23
2023: 18
24
2024: 44
25
2025: 55
26
2026: 10

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Top Manufacturers

DEPUY MITEK LLC US 268
TELEFLEX MEDICAL 126
DEPUY MITEK 122
MEDOS INTERNATIONAL SARL 2
AESCULAP AG 1
DAVOL INC., SUB. C.R. BARD, INC. 1
DEPUY ORTHOPAEDICS INC US 1

Event Locations

273 (50.6%)
I 163 (30.2%)
HOSPITAL 101 (18.7%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 1 (0.2%)
OTHER 1 (0.2%)

Compare DEPUY MITEK LLC US vs TELEFLEX MEDICAL →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Applier, Staple, Surgical,, both floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhoods stay in the advertised mass.

Similar report volume

Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (539 here).

Bag, Urinary, Ileostomy 539 Applicator, Absorbent Tipped, Non-Sterile 536 Collector, Ostomy 536 Chair, Positioning, Electric 543

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (0 here), distinct from the volume row.

Aberrometer, Ophthalmic 0 Accessories, Arthroscopic 0 Accessories, Cleaning Brushes, For Endoscope 0 Accessories, Implant, Dental, Endosseous 0

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Applier, Staple, Surgical, 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 Applier, Staple, Surgical,; 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.