2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA FDA Class II

Fastener, Fixation, Biodegradable, Soft Tissue

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 II (moderate risk, special controls required), regulated under 21 CFR §888.3030 (Orthopedic panel).

FDA MAUDE casebook

openFDA event book Fastener MID-BOOK · MAUDE

#159 of 1000 · 17,071 reports · 1996–2026

  • BOOK 17,071 reports
  • RANK #159 of 1000
  • DEATH 0 death-typed
  • INJ 4,099 injury-typed
  • MALF 12,563 malfunction
  • SPAN 1996–2026
  • PEAK 2024: 2,301
  • PHOTO Catheter, Urological

Nearest event-volume peer: Catheter, Urological (36 report gap)

Fastener, Fixation, Biodegradable, Soft Tissue sits #159 of 1000 among tracked device types with 17,071 MAUDE reports spanning 1996–2026. 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

Fastener carries 73.6% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 8.8pp above 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 24.0% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-6.3 pp)
  • MALF 73.6% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+8.8 pp)

Lead product-problem code Break is 60% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer DEPUY MITEK LLC US accounts for 45% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 63% of location-tagged rows .

Fastener in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Fastener, Fixation, Biodegradable, Soft Tissue carries 17,071 MAUDE reports, ranked #159 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 12,563 (73.6%)
Injury 4,099 (24.0%)
Other 384 (2.2%)
25 (0.1%)

Patient Outcomes

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

12,345 (72.9%)
Other 2,324 (13.7%)
Required Intervention 1,862 (11.0%)
R 197 (1.2%)
O 88 (0.5%)
Hospitalization 61 (0.4%)
S 16 (0.1%)
H 12 (0.1%)
Disability 8 (0.0%)
Life Threatening 6 (0.0%)
Death 4 (0.0%)
L 1 (0.0%)
Congenital Anomaly 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Break 9,645
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 1,105
Device-Device Incompatibility 530
Crack 463
Migration 442
Device Dislodged or Dislocated 418
Detachment of Device or Device Component 397
Material Deformation 376
Fracture 346
Explanted 287
Positioning Failure 239
Insufficient Device Problem Information 235
Patient Device Interaction Problem 232
Migration or Expulsion of Device 218
Difficult to Advance 215
Unknown (for use when the device problem is not known) 213
Replace 178
Difficult to Insert 177
Detachment Of Device Component 174
Material Twisted/Bent 173

Yearly Trend

96
1996: 1
97
1997: 1
98
1998: 1
99
1999: 43
00
2000: 49
01
2001: 21
02
2002: 87
03
2003: 35
04
2004: 106
05
2005: 94
06
2006: 150
07
2007: 272
08
2008: 172
09
2009: 88
10
2010: 89
11
2011: 129
12
2012: 171
13
2013: 166
14
2014: 149
15
2015: 182
16
2016: 301
17
2017: 478
18
2018: 1,590
19
2019: 1,248
20
2020: 957
21
2021: 1,267
22
2022: 1,425
23
2023: 1,718
24
2024: 2,301
25
2025: 2,180
26
2026: 1,600

Reports in 2025 (2,180) held close to the prior two-year average of 2,010.

Related Entities for Fastener, Fixation, Biodegradable, Soft Tissue

Event Locations

10,814 (63.3%)
I 5,063 (29.7%)
HOSPITAL 1,061 (6.2%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 51 (0.3%)
NO INFORMATION 21 (0.1%)
OTHER 21 (0.1%)
UNKNOWN 20 (0.1%)
HOME 6 (0.0%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 6 (0.0%)
INVALID DATA 5 (0.0%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL CENTER 1 (0.0%)
IN TRANSIT TO USER/MEDICAL FACILITY 1 (0.0%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 1 (0.0%)

Compare DEPUY MITEK LLC US vs ARTHREX, INC. →

Nationwide devices with a comparable report-volume footprint

Fastener 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 (17,071 here).

Similar death-typed counts

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Fastener 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 Fastener; 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.