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Drill, Bone, Powered

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 Drill, Bone, Powered LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#646 of 1000 · 1,033 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 1,033 reports
  • RANK #646 of 1000
  • DEATH 0 death-typed
  • INJ 237 injury-typed
  • MALF 773 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 2021: 84
  • PHOTO Holder

Nearest event-volume peer: Holder, Needle, Gastroenterologic (0 report gap)

Drill, Bone, Powered sits #646 of 1000 among tracked device types with 1,033 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 22.9% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-7.5 pp)
  • MALF 74.8% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+10.3 pp)

Lead product-problem code Break is 51% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer SYNTHES GMBH accounts for 48% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 59% of location-tagged rows .

Drill, Bone, Powered in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Drill, Bone, Powered carries 1,033 MAUDE reports, ranked #646 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 773 (74.8%)
Injury 237 (22.9%)
Other 20 (1.9%)
3 (0.3%)

Patient Outcomes

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

773 (73.8%)
Required Intervention 202 (19.3%)
Other 52 (5.0%)
R 13 (1.2%)
Hospitalization 5 (0.5%)
S 1 (0.1%)
Disability 1 (0.1%)

Top Product Problems

Break 325
Failure to Cut 77
Device-Device Incompatibility 71
Entrapment of Device 48
Overheating of Device 20
Material Twisted/Bent 18
Device Markings/Labelling Problem 12
Material Fragmentation 12
Fracture 8
Material Deformation 8
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 6
Excessive Heating 5
Noise, Audible 5
Contamination /Decontamination Problem 4
Defective Device 4
Dull, Blunt 4
Naturally Worn 4
Separation Failure 4
Use of Device Problem 4
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 3

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 2
95
1995: 3
96
1996: 2
97
1997: 14
98
1998: 5
99
1999: 9
00
2000: 16
01
2001: 9
02
2002: 7
03
2003: 13
04
2004: 8
05
2005: 16
06
2006: 10
07
2007: 53
08
2008: 45
09
2009: 22
10
2010: 15
11
2011: 42
12
2012: 25
13
2013: 57
14
2014: 50
15
2015: 39
16
2016: 43
17
2017: 38
18
2018: 73
19
2019: 50
20
2020: 55
21
2021: 84
22
2022: 63
23
2023: 63
24
2024: 58
25
2025: 40
26
2026: 4

Related Entities for Drill, Bone, Powered

Top Manufacturers

SYNTHES GMBH 326
WRIGHTS LANE SYNTHES USA PRODUCTS LLC 86
OBERDORF SYNTHES PRODUKTIONS GMBH 81
STRYKER INSTRUMENTS KALAMAZOO 69
SYNTHES MONUMENT 50
SYNTHES USA 34
IMPLANT DIRECT SYBRON MANUFACTURING LLC 33

Event Locations

613 (59.3%)
I 327 (31.7%)
HOSPITAL 46 (4.5%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 27 (2.6%)
OTHER 14 (1.4%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 3 (0.3%)
NO INFORMATION 2 (0.2%)
UNKNOWN 1 (0.1%)

Compare SYNTHES GMBH vs WRIGHTS LANE SYNTHES USA PRODUCTS LLC →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Drill, Bone, Powered, 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 (1,033 here).

Holder, Needle, Gastroenterologic 1,033 Blood Establishment Computer Software And A… 1,030 Prosthesis, Rib Replacement 1,038 Hemostatic Device For Endoscopic Gastrointe… 1,025

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 Drill, Bone, 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 Drill, Bone, 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.