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Motor, Drill, Pneumatic

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, Pneumatic LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#228 of 1000 · 8,734 reports · 1994–2026

  • BOOK 8,734 reports
  • RANK #228 of 1000
  • DEATH 4 death-typed
  • INJ 263 injury-typed
  • MALF 8,418 malfunction
  • SPAN 1994–2026
  • PEAK 2025: 1,039
  • PHOTO Catheter

Nearest event-volume peer: Catheter, Retention Type, Balloon (124 report gap)

Motor, Drill, Pneumatic sits #228 of 1000 among tracked device types with 8,734 MAUDE reports spanning 1994–2026. 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 3.0% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-27.4 pp)
  • MALF 96.4% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+31.9 pp)

Lead product-problem code Overheating of Device is 26% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer MDT POWERED SURGICAL SOLUTIONS accounts for 34% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 68% of location-tagged rows .

Motor, Drill, Pneumatic in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Motor, Drill, Pneumatic carries 8,734 MAUDE reports, ranked #228 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 8,418 (96.4%)
Injury 263 (3.0%)
Other 25 (0.3%)
24 (0.3%)
Death 4 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

8,301 (95.3%)
Other 204 (2.3%)
Required Intervention 132 (1.5%)
Death 45 (0.5%)
R 10 (0.1%)
Hospitalization 7 (0.1%)
L 4 (0.0%)
Life Threatening 2 (0.0%)
H 1 (0.0%)
S 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Overheating of Device 1,074
Detachment of Device or Device Component 707
Output below Specifications 447
No Apparent Adverse Event 222
Noise, Audible 189
Leak/Splash 186
Material Puncture/Hole 172
Fluid/Blood Leak 152
Unintended System Motion 128
Difficult to Insert 121
Break 117
Naturally Worn 117
Vibration 85
Fracture 77
Fail-Safe Problem 74
Loss of Power 63
Physical Resistance/Sticking 62
Difficult to Remove 58
Device Remains Activated 53
Device Abrasion From Instrument Or Another Object 47

Yearly Trend

94
1994: 1
96
1996: 1
97
1997: 1
98
1998: 2
00
2000: 47
01
2001: 603
02
2002: 103
03
2003: 557
04
2004: 351
05
2005: 107
06
2006: 97
07
2007: 82
08
2008: 176
09
2009: 196
10
2010: 183
11
2011: 399
12
2012: 379
13
2013: 685
14
2014: 562
15
2015: 440
16
2016: 273
17
2017: 203
18
2018: 295
19
2019: 284
20
2020: 263
21
2021: 260
22
2022: 172
23
2023: 180
24
2024: 759
25
2025: 1,039
26
2026: 34

Related Entities for Motor, Drill, Pneumatic

Top Manufacturers

MDT POWERED SURGICAL SOLUTIONS 2,450
DEPUY SYNTHES POWER TOOLS 1,104
THE ANSPACH EFFORT, INC. 1,073
STRYKER INSTRUMENTS-KALAMAZOO 880
STRYKER INSTRUMENTS KALAMAZOO 655
DEPUY SYNTHES PRODUCTS LLC 549
STRYKER INSTRUMENTS-A DIVISION OF STRYKER CORP 241
SYNTHES GMBH 222

Event Locations

5,952 (68.1%)
I 1,727 (19.8%)
HOSPITAL 840 (9.6%)
NURSING HOME 172 (2.0%)
NO INFORMATION 31 (0.4%)
OTHER 7 (0.1%)
INVALID DATA 3 (0.0%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 1 (0.0%)
UNKNOWN 1 (0.0%)

Compare MDT POWERED SURGICAL SOLUTIONS vs DEPUY SYNTHES POWER TOOLS →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Motor, Drill, Pneumatic, 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 (8,734 here).

Catheter, Retention Type, Balloon 8,858 Catheter 8,601 Intervertebral Fusion Device With Bone Graft 8,876 Controller 8,893

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (4 here), distinct from the volume row.

Catheter, Urethral 4 Disinfectant, Medical Devices 4 Drill, Surgical, Ent Including Handpiece 4 Electrode 4

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Motor, Drill, Pneumatic 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, Pneumatic; 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.