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2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA FDA Class I

Crutch

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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FDA MAUDE casebook

openFDA event book Crutch LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#988 of 1000 · 373 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 373 reports
  • RANK #988 of 1000
  • DEATH 0 death-typed
  • INJ 89 injury-typed
  • MALF 81 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 2013: 64
  • PHOTO Probe, Thermodilution

Nearest event-volume peer: Probe, Thermodilution (0 report gap)

Crutch sits #988 of 1000 among tracked device types with 373 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 sit below the device-type norm

Crutch carries 21.7% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 43.1pp below the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 0.0% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.5 pp)
  • INJ 23.9% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-6.4 pp)
  • MALF 21.7% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-43.1 pp)

Lead product-problem code Break is 37% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer UNKNOWN accounts for 79% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 60% of location-tagged rows .

Crutch in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Crutch carries 373 MAUDE reports, ranked #988 of 1000.

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

Event Types

127 (34.0%)
Injury 89 (23.9%)
Malfunction 81 (21.7%)
Other 76 (20.4%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Other 237 (62.4%)
61 (16.1%)
Required Intervention 58 (15.3%)
Hospitalization 10 (2.6%)
R 9 (2.4%)
O 3 (0.8%)
Disability 2 (0.5%)

Top Product Problems

Break 126
Component(s), broken 25
Unstable 24
Bent 22
Product Quality Problem 21
Fracture 19
Collapse 18
Detachment Of Device Component 15
Crack 14
Naturally Worn 10
Design/structure problem 7
Insufficient Device Problem Information 7
Device Slipped 6
Material Separation 5
Defective Device 4
Material Disintegration 4
Material Integrity Problem 4
Use of Device Problem 4
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 3
Component Missing 3

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 1
94
1994: 2
95
1995: 5
96
1996: 7
97
1997: 27
98
1998: 25
99
1999: 5
00
2000: 6
01
2001: 13
02
2002: 1
03
2003: 2
05
2005: 2
06
2006: 3
07
2007: 6
08
2008: 6
09
2009: 12
10
2010: 13
11
2011: 15
12
2012: 34
13
2013: 64
14
2014: 53
15
2015: 12
16
2016: 9
17
2017: 4
18
2018: 4
19
2019: 4
20
2020: 5
21
2021: 3
22
2022: 4
23
2023: 7
24
2024: 3
25
2025: 6
26
2026: 10

Reports in 2025 (6) held close to the prior two-year average of 5.

Related Entities for Crutch

Top Manufacturers

UNKNOWN 54
MEDLINE INDUSTRIES, LP 14

Event Locations

224 (60.1%)
HOME 60 (16.1%)
OTHER 24 (6.4%)
HOSPITAL 23 (6.2%)
INVALID DATA 16 (4.3%)
I 12 (3.2%)
UNKNOWN 6 (1.6%)
NO INFORMATION 5 (1.3%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 3 (0.8%)

Compare UNKNOWN vs MEDLINE INDUSTRIES, LP →

Nationwide devices with a comparable report-volume footprint

Crutch carries zero death-typed MAUDE reports, so the peer set below compares report volume only; both axes are floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhood stays in the advertised mass.

Similar report volume

Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (373 here).

Probe, Thermodilution 373 Azo Dye, Calcium 372 Lens, Contact, 372 Multi-Analyte Test System With Algorithmic… 371

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 Crutch 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 Crutch; 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.