2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

Motor, Drill, Electric

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 Motor, Drill, Electric MID-BOOK · MAUDE

#109 of 1000 · 28,183 reports · 2003–2026

  • BOOK 28,183 reports
  • RANK #109 of 1000
  • DEATH 6 death-typed
  • INJ 244 injury-typed
  • MALF 27,884 malfunction
  • SPAN 2003–2026
  • PEAK 2013: 10,670
  • PHOTO Drill

Nearest event-volume peer: Drill, Surgical, Ent (Electric Or Pneumatic) Including Handpiece (839 report gap)

Motor, Drill, Electric sits #109 of 1000 among tracked device types with 28,183 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 →

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 0.9% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-29.6 pp)
  • MALF 98.9% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+34.4 pp)

Lead product-problem code Overheating of Device is 28% 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

reports

What this shows Motor, Drill, Electric carries 28,183 MAUDE reports, ranked #109 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 27,884 (98.9%)
Injury 244 (0.9%)
39 (0.1%)
Other 10 (0.0%)
Death 6 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

27,812 (98.8%)
Required Intervention 191 (0.7%)
Other 108 (0.4%)
Hospitalization 11 (0.0%)
R 8 (0.0%)
Congenital Anomaly 6 (0.0%)
Death 6 (0.0%)
Disability 6 (0.0%)
Life Threatening 6 (0.0%)
L 2 (0.0%)
H 1 (0.0%)
S 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Overheating of Device 4,145
Excessive Heating 2,144
Vibration 1,639
Break 1,067
Unintended System Motion 794
Detachment of Device or Device Component 582
Device Damaged by Another Device 490
Noise, Audible 450
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 374
Bent 358
Device Displays Incorrect Message 337
Naturally Worn 320
Material Twisted/Bent 310
Fail-Safe Problem 305
Detachment Of Device Component 289
Device Alarm System 281
Complete Loss of Power 268
Temperature Problem 260
Device Inoperable 184
Device-Device Incompatibility 155

Yearly Trend

03
2003: 1
04
2004: 2
05
2005: 4
06
2006: 16
07
2007: 5
08
2008: 6
09
2009: 2
10
2010: 1
11
2011: 1
12
2012: 3
13
2013: 10,670
14
2014: 2,643
15
2015: 1,953
16
2016: 2,541
17
2017: 2,079
18
2018: 1,779
19
2019: 1,703
20
2020: 1,304
21
2021: 946
22
2022: 760
23
2023: 663
24
2024: 427
25
2025: 648
26
2026: 26

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Event Locations

16,919 (60.0%)
I 11,193 (39.7%)
NO INFORMATION 57 (0.2%)
HOSPITAL 14 (0.0%)

Compare DEPUY SYNTHES POWER TOOLS vs DEPUY SYNTHES PRODUCTS LLC →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Motor, Drill, Electric, 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 (28,183 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (6 here), distinct from the volume row.

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.