2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

Nail, Fixation, Bone

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 MAUDE casebook

openFDA event book Nail, Fixation, Bone LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#256 of 1000 · 7,101 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 7,101 reports
  • RANK #256 of 1000
  • DEATH 11 death-typed
  • INJ 4,857 injury-typed
  • MALF 2,204 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 2020: 643
  • PHOTO System

Nearest event-volume peer: System, X-Ray, Angiographic (26 report gap)

Nail, Fixation, Bone sits #256 of 1000 among tracked device types with 7,101 MAUDE reports spanning 1992–2026. 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 0.2% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.4 pp)
  • INJ 68.4% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+38.0 pp)
  • MALF 31.0% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-33.5 pp)

Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 38% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer SYNTHES GMBH accounts for 30% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 55% of location-tagged rows .

Nail, Fixation, Bone in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Nail, Fixation, Bone carries 7,101 MAUDE reports, ranked #256 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Injury 4,857 (68.4%)
Malfunction 2,204 (31.0%)
18 (0.3%)
Death 11 (0.2%)
Other 11 (0.2%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Required Intervention 3,421 (42.0%)
2,186 (26.8%)
Hospitalization 946 (11.6%)
R 866 (10.6%)
Other 522 (6.4%)
O 95 (1.2%)
H 86 (1.1%)
Death 11 (0.1%)
S 7 (0.1%)
Disability 6 (0.1%)
Congenital Anomaly 2 (0.0%)
Life Threatening 2 (0.0%)
Invalid Data 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 1,821
Device-Device Incompatibility 918
Break 850
Fracture 233
Insufficient Information 216
Migration 142
Material Deformation 100
Migration or Expulsion of Device 93
Manufacturing, Packaging or Shipping Problem 68
Detachment of Device or Device Component 66
Material Twisted/Bent 61
Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 40
Failure to Align 38
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 34
No Apparent Adverse Event 33
Unintended Movement 33
Device Slipped 31
Loose or Intermittent Connection 29
Use of Device Problem 26
Entrapment of Device 23

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 3
93
1993: 9
94
1994: 10
95
1995: 11
96
1996: 5
97
1997: 16
98
1998: 36
99
1999: 27
00
2000: 15
01
2001: 22
02
2002: 35
03
2003: 41
04
2004: 34
05
2005: 50
06
2006: 75
07
2007: 161
08
2008: 169
09
2009: 160
10
2010: 70
11
2011: 104
12
2012: 195
13
2013: 284
14
2014: 388
15
2015: 316
16
2016: 506
17
2017: 287
18
2018: 320
19
2019: 490
20
2020: 643
21
2021: 630
22
2022: 589
23
2023: 357
24
2024: 466
25
2025: 505
26
2026: 72

Related Entities for Nail, Fixation, Bone

Event Locations

3,915 (55.1%)
I 2,895 (40.8%)
HOSPITAL 249 (3.5%)
HOME 12 (0.2%)
OTHER 8 (0.1%)
INVALID DATA 7 (0.1%)
UNKNOWN 7 (0.1%)
NO INFORMATION 5 (0.1%)
NOT APPLICABLE 2 (0.0%)
NURSING HOME 1 (0.0%)

Compare SYNTHES GMBH vs SMITH & NEPHEW, INC. →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Nail, Fixation, Bone, 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 (7,101 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (11 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Nail, Fixation, Bone 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 Nail, Fixation, Bone; 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.