Motor, Drill, Electric
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 §882.4360 (Neurology panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Motor, Drill, Electric MID-BOOK · MAUDE
#111 of 1000 · 28,221 reports · 2003–2026
- BOOK 28,221 reports
- RANK #111 of 1000
- DEATH 6 death-typed
- INJ 250 injury-typed
- MALF 27,916 malfunction
- SPAN 2003–2026
- PEAK 2013: 10,670
- PHOTO Reamer
Nearest event-volume peer: Reamer (1,198 report gap)
Motor, Drill, Electric sits #111 of 1000 among tracked device types with 28,221 MAUDE reports spanning 2003–2026. 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
Motor, Drill, Electric carries 98.9% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 34.1pp 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 0.9% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-29.4 pp)
- MALF 98.9% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+34.1 pp)
Lead product-problem code Overheating of Device is 24% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer DEPUY SYNTHES POWER TOOLS accounts for 66% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 60% of location-tagged rows .
Motor, Drill, Electric in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Drill
Drill, Surgical, Ent (Electric Or Pneumatic) Including Handpiece
29,783 reports
- Reamer
Reamer
29,419 reports
- Motor (this)
Motor, Drill, Electric
28,221 reports
- Coronavirus A…
Coronavirus Antigen Detection Test System.
26,743 reports
- Stapler
Stapler, Surgical
26,629 reports
- System
System, Thermal Regulating
26,611 reports
What this shows Motor, Drill, Electric carries 28,221 MAUDE reports, ranked #111 of 1000.
Event Types
Patient Outcomes
FDA patient-outcome codes (separate from event_type). Percentages use this chart's row total.
Top Product Problems
Yearly Trend
Reports in 2025 (648) held close to the prior two-year average of 545.
Related Entities for Motor, Drill, Electric
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Compare DEPUY SYNTHES POWER TOOLS vs DEPUY SYNTHES PRODUCTS LLC →
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Motor, Drill, Electric: nearest by total report volume and nearest by death-typed count, each floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhoods stay in the advertised mass.
Similar report volume
Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (28,221 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (6 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Motor, Drill, Electric 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 Motor, Drill, Electric; 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.