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Pin, Fixation, Smooth

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 Pin, Fixation, Smooth LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#410 of 1000 · 2,848 reports · 1991–2026

  • BOOK 2,848 reports
  • RANK #410 of 1000
  • DEATH 1 death-typed
  • INJ 1,468 injury-typed
  • MALF 1,274 malfunction
  • SPAN 1991–2026
  • PEAK 2024: 297
  • PHOTO Aid

Nearest event-volume peer: Aid, Surgical, Viscoelastic (3 report gap)

Pin, Fixation, Smooth sits #410 of 1000 among tracked device types with 2,848 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 →

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 51.5% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+21.1 pp)
  • MALF 44.7% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-19.8 pp)

Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 37% 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

reports

What this shows Pin, Fixation, Smooth carries 2,848 MAUDE reports, ranked #410 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Injury 1,468 (51.5%)
Malfunction 1,274 (44.7%)
Other 74 (2.6%)
31 (1.1%)
Death 1 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Required Intervention 1,019 (34.4%)
Other 909 (30.7%)
836 (28.2%)
R 94 (3.2%)
Hospitalization 73 (2.5%)
S 16 (0.5%)
O 8 (0.3%)
Disability 6 (0.2%)
H 1 (0.0%)
Congenital Anomaly 1 (0.0%)
Death 1 (0.0%)
Life Threatening 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 528
Break 360
Fracture 108
Detachment of Device or Device Component 58
Mechanical Jam 55
Insufficient Information 28
Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 27
Material Deformation 27
Patient Device Interaction Problem 25
Material Split, Cut or Torn 23
Material Twisted/Bent 23
Device-Device Incompatibility 21
Migration 21
Use of Device Problem 20
Defective Device 19
Entrapment of Device 17
Migration or Expulsion of Device 17
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 15
Material Fragmentation 15
Device Dislodged or Dislocated 14

Yearly Trend

91
1991: 1
92
1992: 2
93
1993: 1
94
1994: 4
95
1995: 8
96
1996: 29
97
1997: 31
98
1998: 56
99
1999: 65
00
2000: 33
01
2001: 18
02
2002: 31
03
2003: 21
04
2004: 28
05
2005: 38
06
2006: 60
07
2007: 46
08
2008: 38
09
2009: 36
10
2010: 33
11
2011: 164
12
2012: 129
13
2013: 187
14
2014: 149
15
2015: 121
16
2016: 128
17
2017: 82
18
2018: 138
19
2019: 222
20
2020: 210
21
2021: 148
22
2022: 96
23
2023: 153
24
2024: 297
25
2025: 39
26
2026: 6

Related Entities for Pin, Fixation, Smooth

Top Manufacturers

STRYKER GMBH 408
ARTHREX, INC. 397
DEPUY MITEK LLC US 179
SYNTHES GMBH 115
SYNTHES USA 93
STRYKER TRAUMA KIEL 76

Event Locations

1,589 (55.8%)
I 913 (32.1%)
HOSPITAL 234 (8.2%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 25 (0.9%)
INVALID DATA 25 (0.9%)
HOME 20 (0.7%)
NO INFORMATION 17 (0.6%)
UNKNOWN 11 (0.4%)
OTHER 9 (0.3%)
NOT APPLICABLE 2 (0.1%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 2 (0.1%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 1 (0.0%)

Compare STRYKER GMBH vs ARTHREX, INC. →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Pin, Fixation, Smooth, 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 (2,848 here).

Aid, Surgical, Viscoelastic 2,845 Spinal Vertebral Body Replacement Device 2,843 Instrument 2,855 Culture Media, Enriched 2,839

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (1 here), distinct from the volume row.

Abutment, Implant, Dental, Endosseous 1 Active Implantable Bone Conduction Hearing… 1 Alarm, Conditioned Response Enuresis 1 Aligner, Sequential 1

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.