Motor, Drill, Pneumatic
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 §882.4370 (Neurology panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Motor, Drill, Pneumatic LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#223 of 1000 · 9,613 reports · 1994–2026
- BOOK 9,613 reports
- RANK #223 of 1000
- DEATH 4 death-typed
- INJ 266 injury-typed
- MALF 9,294 malfunction
- SPAN 1994–2026
- PEAK 2025: 1,040
- PHOTO Prosthesis
Nearest event-volume peer: Prosthesis, Knee, Femorotibial, Semi-Constrained, Cemented, Metal/Polymer (31 report gap)
Motor, Drill, Pneumatic sits #223 of 1000 among tracked device types with 9,613 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 →
Malfunction reports run above the device-type norm
Motor, Drill, Pneumatic carries 96.7% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 31.9pp 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 2.8% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-27.5 pp)
- MALF 96.7% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+31.9 pp)
Lead product-problem code Overheating of Device is 18% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer MDT POWERED SURGICAL SOLUTIONS accounts for 41% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 71% of location-tagged rows .
Motor, Drill, Pneumatic in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Driver
Driver, Prosthesis
9,682 reports
- Ring
Ring, Annuloplasty
9,673 reports
- Prosthesis
Prosthesis, Knee, Femorotibial, Semi-Constrained, Cemented, Metal/Polymer
9,644 reports
- Motor (this)
Motor, Drill, Pneumatic
9,613 reports
- Keratome
Keratome, Ac-Powered
9,578 reports
- Prosthesis
Prosthesis, Knee, Femorotibial, Constrained, Cemented, Metal/Polymer
9,364 reports
What this shows Motor, Drill, Pneumatic carries 9,613 MAUDE reports, ranked #223 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 rose to 1,040 in 2025, up from an average of 470 in the two years before - a recent-year increase, not a lifetime pattern.
Related Entities for Motor, Drill, Pneumatic
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Compare MDT POWERED SURGICAL SOLUTIONS vs DEPUY SYNTHES POWER TOOLS →
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Motor, Drill, Pneumatic: 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 (9,613 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (4 here), distinct from the volume row.
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.