2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA FDA Class II

Screw, Fixation, 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 §888.3040 (Orthopedic panel).

FDA MAUDE casebook

openFDA event book Screw, Fixation, Bone MID-BOOK · MAUDE

#61 of 1000 · 58,626 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 58,626 reports
  • RANK #61 of 1000
  • DEATH 75 death-typed
  • INJ 39,416 injury-typed
  • MALF 18,053 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 2019: 5,464
  • PHOTO Implantable Pacemaker…

Nearest event-volume peer: Implantable Pacemaker Pulse-Generator (857 report gap)

Screw, Fixation, Bone sits #61 of 1000 among tracked device types with 58,626 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

Screw, Fixation, Bone carries 67.2% INJURY-coded reports, 36.9pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 0.1% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.4 pp)
  • INJ 67.2% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+36.9 pp)
  • MALF 30.8% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-34.0 pp)

Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 31% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer SYNTHES GMBH accounts for 27% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 55% of location-tagged rows .

Screw, Fixation, Bone in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Screw, Fixation, Bone carries 58,626 MAUDE reports, ranked #61 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Injury 39,416 (67.2%)
Malfunction 18,053 (30.8%)
Other 851 (1.5%)
231 (0.4%)
Death 75 (0.1%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Required Intervention 32,746 (53.8%)
16,999 (27.9%)
Other 5,836 (9.6%)
Hospitalization 2,229 (3.7%)
R 2,186 (3.6%)
O 265 (0.4%)
H 242 (0.4%)
S 140 (0.2%)
Death 86 (0.1%)
Disability 79 (0.1%)
L 17 (0.0%)
Life Threatening 13 (0.0%)
Congenital Anomaly 4 (0.0%)
D 3 (0.0%)
Invalid Data 2 (0.0%)
C 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 17,198
Break 15,511
Migration 2,600
Insufficient Device Problem Information 2,513
Device-Device Incompatibility 2,432
Fracture 2,431
Explanted 1,480
Migration or Expulsion of Device 1,256
Device Slipped 1,117
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 1,059
Device Dislodged or Dislocated 1,048
Appropriate Device Problem Term/Code Not Available 904
Difficult to Remove 831
Material Twisted/Bent 809
Detachment Of Device Component 802
Material Fragmentation 746
Replace 711
Difficult to Insert 701
Unknown (for use when the device problem is not known) 681
Entrapment of Device 672

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 21
93
1993: 23
94
1994: 52
95
1995: 25
96
1996: 55
97
1997: 161
98
1998: 151
99
1999: 126
00
2000: 140
01
2001: 211
02
2002: 281
03
2003: 236
04
2004: 240
05
2005: 432
06
2006: 652
07
2007: 669
08
2008: 660
09
2009: 651
10
2010: 765
11
2011: 1,105
12
2012: 3,339
13
2013: 3,850
14
2014: 2,548
15
2015: 2,711
16
2016: 2,285
17
2017: 2,561
18
2018: 3,662
19
2019: 5,464
20
2020: 4,820
21
2021: 4,446
22
2022: 3,934
23
2023: 3,717
24
2024: 3,575
25
2025: 2,930
26
2026: 2,128

Reports in 2025 (2,930) held close to the prior two-year average of 3,646.

Related Entities for Screw, Fixation, Bone

Event Locations

32,023 (54.6%)
I 23,112 (39.4%)
HOSPITAL 2,630 (4.5%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 272 (0.5%)
OTHER 205 (0.3%)
NO INFORMATION 157 (0.3%)
INVALID DATA 67 (0.1%)
UNKNOWN 53 (0.1%)
HOME 45 (0.1%)
NOT APPLICABLE 30 (0.1%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 16 (0.0%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 10 (0.0%)
NURSING HOME 4 (0.0%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL CENTER 2 (0.0%)

Compare SYNTHES GMBH vs SYNTHES USA →

Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Screw, Fixation, 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 (58,626 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (75 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Screw, Fixation, 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 Screw, Fixation, 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.