What are FDA adverse event reports for Chair, With Casters?

The FDA's MAUDE (Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience) database collects reports of adverse events involving medical devices. For Chair, With Casters, there are 1,715 total reports including 13 death reports and 229 injury reports. These reports are submitted by manufacturers, healthcare facilities, and patients. A high number of reports does not necessarily mean a device is unsafe, widely used devices naturally generate more reports.

How should I interpret MAUDE data for Chair, With Casters?

MAUDE reports are raw adverse event submissions, not confirmed safety findings. A report that a device was involved in a death does not mean the device caused the death. Reports vary in quality and completeness. The FDA uses MAUDE data as one input among many in its safety surveillance, it does not draw conclusions from individual reports. Always consult your healthcare provider about device safety questions.

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Chair, With Casters

Name: Chair, With Casters - FDA MAUDE Adverse Event Reports
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Adverse-event figures are drawn from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database, refreshed March 2026, see our methodology.

Compiled by PlainHospital · August 14, 2026

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openFDA event book Chair, With Casters LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#519 of 1000 · 1,715 reports · 1992–2026

BOOK 1,715 reports
RANK #519 of 1000
DEATH 13 death-typed
INJ 229 injury-typed
MALF 336 malfunction
SPAN 1992–2026
PEAK 2014: 677
PHOTO Prosthesis

Nearest event-volume peer: Prosthesis, Mitral Valve, Percutaneously Delivered (2 report gap)

Chair, With Casters sits #519 of 1000 among tracked device types with 1,715 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 0.8% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-0.8 pp)
INJ 13.4% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-17.1 pp)
MALF 19.6% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-44.9 pp)

Lead product-problem code Break is 15% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer UNKNOWN accounts for 70% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 86% of location-tagged rows .

Cannula

1,730
Cannula

1,723
Catheter

1,723
Prosthesis

1,717
Chair (this)

1,715
Covid-19 Mult…

1,692

What this shows Chair, With Casters carries 1,715 MAUDE reports, ranked #519 of 1000.

Event Types

1,100 (64.1%)

Malfunction 336 (19.6%)

Injury 229 (13.4%)

Other 37 (2.2%)

Death 13 (0.8%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Other 1,337 (76.4%)

185 (10.6%)

Required Intervention 102 (5.8%)

Hospitalization 66 (3.8%)

R 14 (0.8%)

Death 10 (0.6%)

O 9 (0.5%)

Life Threatening 6 (0.3%)

H 4 (0.2%)

S 4 (0.2%)

Disability 4 (0.2%)

Invalid Data 3 (0.2%)

D 2 (0.1%)

Congenital Anomaly 2 (0.1%)

L 1 (0.1%)

Yearly Trend

1992: 1

1993: 4

1994: 9

1995: 1

1996: 7

1997: 11

1998: 18

1999: 16

2000: 23

2001: 13

2002: 6

2003: 13

2004: 15

2005: 8

2006: 17

2007: 12

2008: 13

2009: 12

2010: 10

2011: 49

2012: 175

2013: 463

2014: 677

2015: 15

2016: 18

2017: 8

2018: 11

2019: 13

2020: 9

2021: 22

2022: 11

2023: 11

2024: 8

2025: 15

2026: 1

Top Manufacturers

UNKNOWN 128

INVACARE TAYLOR STREET 31

INVAMEX 24

Event Locations

1,467 (85.5%)

NURSING HOME 67 (3.9%)

HOME 45 (2.6%)

HOSPITAL 40 (2.3%)

OTHER 38 (2.2%)

I 32 (1.9%)

INVALID DATA 9 (0.5%)

NO INFORMATION 8 (0.5%)

UNKNOWN 5 (0.3%)

OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 2 (0.1%)

AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 1 (0.1%)

REHABILITATION CENTER 1 (0.1%)

Compare UNKNOWN vs INVACARE TAYLOR STREET →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Chair, With Casters, 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 (1,715 here).

Prosthesis 1,717 Cannula, Manipulator/Injector, Uterine 1,723 Catheter 1,723 Cannula, Nasal, Oxygen 1,730

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (13 here), distinct from the volume row.

Apparatus 13 Continuous Measurement Thermometer 13 Immunoassay Method, Troponin Subunit 13 Instrument, Coagulation, Automated 13

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Chair, With Casters 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 Chair, With Casters; 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.

Chair, With Casters

Event-type mix vs corpus