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 Class II (moderate risk, special controls required), regulated under 21 CFR §888.3030 (Orthopedic panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Nail, Fixation, Bone LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#260 of 1000 · 7,230 reports · 1992–2026
- BOOK 7,230 reports
- RANK #260 of 1000
- DEATH 11 death-typed
- INJ 4,877 injury-typed
- MALF 2,313 malfunction
- SPAN 1992–2026
- PEAK 2020: 643
- PHOTO Stent, Iliac
Nearest event-volume peer: Stent, Iliac (12 report gap)
Nail, Fixation, Bone sits #260 of 1000 among tracked device types with 7,230 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 →
Injury-coded reports run above the device-type norm
Nail, Fixation, Bone carries 67.5% INJURY-coded reports, 37.2pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 0.2% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.4 pp)
- INJ 67.5% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+37.2 pp)
- MALF 32.0% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-32.8 pp)
Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 29% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer SYNTHES GMBH accounts for 31% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 56% of location-tagged rows .
Nail, Fixation, Bone in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Laryngoscope
Laryngoscope, Rigid
7,361 reports
- Nail (this)
Nail, Fixation, Bone
7,230 reports
- Stent, Iliac
Stent, Iliac
7,218 reports
- Hemostatic Me…
Hemostatic Metal Clip For The Gi Tract
7,146 reports
- Hearing Aid
Hearing Aid, Bone Conduction
7,116 reports
- Heart-Valve
Heart-Valve, Mechanical
7,067 reports
What this shows Nail, Fixation, Bone carries 7,230 MAUDE reports, ranked #260 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 (505) held close to the prior two-year average of 412.
Related Entities for Nail, Fixation, Bone
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Nail, Fixation, Bone: 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 (7,230 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (11 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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.