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Saw, Powered, And Accessories

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 Saw, Powered, And Accessories LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#218 of 1000 · 9,928 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 9,928 reports
  • RANK #218 of 1000
  • DEATH 3 death-typed
  • INJ 434 injury-typed
  • MALF 9,485 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 2021: 1,719
  • PHOTO Appliance

Nearest event-volume peer: Appliance, Fixation, Nail/Blade/Plate Combination, Multiple Component (25 report gap)

Saw, Powered, And Accessories sits #218 of 1000 among tracked device types with 9,928 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 →

Malfunction reports run above the device-type norm

Saw, Powered, And Accessories carries 95.5% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 30.7pp 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 4.4% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-25.9 pp)
  • MALF 95.5% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+30.7 pp)

Lead product-problem code Overheating of Device is 43% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer SMITH & NEPHEW, INC. accounts for 96% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location I is 63% of location-tagged rows .

Saw, Powered, And Accessories in the event-volume neighbourhood

FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers

reports

What this shows Saw, Powered, And Accessories carries 9,928 MAUDE reports, ranked #218 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 9,485 (95.5%)
Injury 434 (4.4%)
5 (0.1%)
Death 3 (0.0%)
Other 1 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

9,367 (94.3%)
Required Intervention 283 (2.8%)
Other 229 (2.3%)
R 21 (0.2%)
O 19 (0.2%)
Hospitalization 8 (0.1%)
Death 2 (0.0%)
Disability 2 (0.0%)
Life Threatening 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Overheating of Device 4,619
Mechanical Jam 1,980
Mechanical Problem 558
Metal Shedding Debris 530
Temperature Problem 402
Protective Measures Problem 364
Noise, Audible 331
Break 314
Insufficient Device Problem Information 231
Flaked 204
Electrical Shorting 203
Material Fragmentation 183
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 181
Device Inoperable 137
Electrical /Electronic Property Problem 119
Self-Activation or Keying 102
Physical Resistance/Sticking 98
Smoking 84
No Apparent Adverse Event 70
Sparking 65

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 1
96
1996: 1
97
1997: 7
98
1998: 3
99
1999: 1
00
2000: 3
01
2001: 2
02
2002: 7
03
2003: 1
04
2004: 3
06
2006: 4
07
2007: 1
08
2008: 2
09
2009: 4
10
2010: 28
11
2011: 76
12
2012: 117
13
2013: 181
14
2014: 133
15
2015: 485
16
2016: 358
17
2017: 1,363
18
2018: 681
19
2019: 676
20
2020: 1,462
21
2021: 1,719
22
2022: 387
23
2023: 734
24
2024: 746
25
2025: 479
26
2026: 263

Reports fell to 479 in 2025, down from an average of 740 in the two years before.

Related Entities for Saw, Powered, And Accessories

Top Manufacturers

SMITH & NEPHEW, INC. 8,811
STRYKER INSTRUMENTS-KALAMAZOO 231
STRYKER INSTRUMENTS KALAMAZOO 96

Event Locations

I 6,232 (62.8%)
3,284 (33.1%)
NO INFORMATION 196 (2.0%)
HOSPITAL 183 (1.8%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 22 (0.2%)
OTHER 8 (0.1%)
INVALID DATA 1 (0.0%)
NURSING HOME 1 (0.0%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 1 (0.0%)

Compare SMITH & NEPHEW, INC. vs STRYKER INSTRUMENTS-KALAMAZOO →

Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Saw, Powered, And Accessories: 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 (9,928 here).

Appliance 9,903 Driver, Prosthesis 9,682 Ring, Annuloplasty 9,673 Prosthesis 10,185

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (3 here), distinct from the volume row.

Analyzer, Pacemaker Generator Function 3 Apparatus, Traction, Non-Powered 3 Bronchial Thermoplasty System 3 Bur, Ear, Nose And Throat 3

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Saw, Powered, And Accessories 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 Saw, Powered, And Accessories; 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.