Pliers, Surgical
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 I (lowest regulatory risk tier, general controls), regulated under 21 CFR §878.4800 (General, Plastic Surgery panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Pliers, Surgical LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#957 of 1000 · 412 reports · 2000–2026
- BOOK 412 reports
- RANK #957 of 1000
- DEATH 0 death-typed
- INJ 15 injury-typed
- MALF 390 malfunction
- SPAN 2000–2026
- PEAK 2013: 87
- PHOTO Manometer
Nearest event-volume peer: Manometer, Spinal-Fluid (1 report gap)
Pliers, Surgical sits #957 of 1000 among tracked device types with 412 MAUDE reports spanning 2000–2026. 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 →
Malfunction reports run above the device-type norm
Pliers, Surgical carries 94.7% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 29.8pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 0.0% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.5 pp)
- INJ 3.6% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-26.7 pp)
- MALF 94.7% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+29.8 pp)
Lead product-problem code Break is 57% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer SYNTHES GMBH accounts for 52% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 57% of location-tagged rows .
Pliers, Surgical in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Burr
Burr, Orthopedic
414 reports
- System
System, Applicator, Radionuclide, Remote-Controlled
413 reports
- Pliers (this)
Pliers, Surgical
412 reports
- Manometer
Manometer, Spinal-Fluid
411 reports
- Mass Spectrom…
Mass Spectrometry, Maldi Tof, Microorganism Identification, Cultured Isolates
411 reports
- Saliva
Saliva, Artificial
411 reports
What this shows Pliers, Surgical carries 412 MAUDE reports, ranked #957 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 27 in 2025, up from an average of 17 in the two years before - a recent-year increase, not a lifetime pattern.
Related Entities for Pliers, Surgical
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Compare SYNTHES GMBH vs WRIGHTS LANE SYNTHES USA PRODUCTS LLC →
Nationwide devices with a comparable report-volume footprint
Pliers, Surgical carries zero death-typed MAUDE reports, so the peer set below compares report volume only; both axes are floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhood stays in the advertised mass.
Similar report volume
Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (412 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (0 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Pliers, Surgical 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 Pliers, Surgical; 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.