Plate, 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 §872.4760 (Dental panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Plate, Bone MID-BOOK · MAUDE
#214 of 1000 · 10,393 reports · 1992–2026
- BOOK 10,393 reports
- RANK #214 of 1000
- DEATH 21 death-typed
- INJ 5,207 injury-typed
- MALF 5,044 malfunction
- SPAN 1992–2026
- PEAK 2026: 1,038
- PHOTO System
Nearest event-volume peer: System, Test, Automated Blood Grouping And Antibody (8 report gap)
Plate, Bone sits #214 of 1000 among tracked device types with 10,393 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
Plate, Bone carries 50.1% INJURY-coded reports, 19.8pp 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 (-1.3 pp)
- INJ 50.1% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+19.8 pp)
- MALF 48.5% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-16.3 pp)
Lead product-problem code Break is 37% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer SYNTHES GMBH accounts for 40% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 65% of location-tagged rows .
Plate, Bone in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Stent
Stent, Superficial Femoral Artery
10,573 reports
- Appliance
Appliance, Fixation, Spinal Intervertebral Body
10,554 reports
- System
System, Test, Automated Blood Grouping And Antibody
10,401 reports
- Plate, Bone (this)
Plate, Bone
10,393 reports
- Catheter
Catheter, Coude
10,370 reports
- Prosthesis
Prosthesis, Shoulder, Hemi-, Humeral, Metallic Uncemented
10,195 reports
What this shows Plate, Bone carries 10,393 MAUDE reports, ranked #214 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 1,017 in 2025, up from an average of 596 in the two years before - a recent-year increase, not a lifetime pattern.
Related Entities for Plate, Bone
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Plate, 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 (10,393 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (21 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Plate, 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 Plate, 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.