Pin, Fixation, Smooth
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 §888.3040 (Orthopedic panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Pin, Fixation, Smooth LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#420 of 1000 · 2,868 reports · 1991–2026
- BOOK 2,868 reports
- RANK #420 of 1000
- DEATH 1 death-typed
- INJ 1,473 injury-typed
- MALF 1,289 malfunction
- SPAN 1991–2026
- PEAK 2024: 297
- PHOTO Lithotriptor
Nearest event-volume peer: Lithotriptor, Biliary Mechanical (7 report gap)
Pin, Fixation, Smooth sits #420 of 1000 among tracked device types with 2,868 MAUDE reports spanning 1991–2026. 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
Pin, Fixation, Smooth carries 51.4% INJURY-coded reports, 21.1pp 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 51.4% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+21.1 pp)
- MALF 44.9% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-19.9 pp)
Lead product-problem code Break is 29% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer STRYKER GMBH accounts for 32% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 56% of location-tagged rows .
Pin, Fixation, Smooth in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Lithotriptor
Lithotriptor, Biliary Mechanical
2,875 reports
- Pin (this)
Pin, Fixation, Smooth
2,868 reports
- Instrument
Instrument, Surgical, Orthopedic, Dc-Powered Motor And Accessory/Attachment
2,859 reports
- Nebulizer
Nebulizer (Direct Patient Interface)
2,847 reports
- Stent
Stent, Superficial Femoral Artery, Drug-Eluting
2,846 reports
- Prosthesis
Prosthesis, Penis, Inflatable
2,835 reports
What this shows Pin, Fixation, Smooth carries 2,868 MAUDE reports, ranked #420 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 fell to 39 in 2025, down from an average of 225 in the two years before.
Related Entities for Pin, Fixation, Smooth
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Pin, Fixation, Smooth: 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 (2,868 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (1 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Pin, Fixation, Smooth 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 Pin, Fixation, Smooth; 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.