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Screwdriver

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 Screwdriver MID-BOOK · MAUDE

#129 of 1000 · 22,481 reports · 1994–2026

  • BOOK 22,481 reports
  • RANK #129 of 1000
  • DEATH 4 death-typed
  • INJ 1,547 injury-typed
  • MALF 20,789 malfunction
  • SPAN 1994–2026
  • PEAK 2025: 2,153
  • PHOTO Instrument, Biopsy

Nearest event-volume peer: Instrument, Biopsy (75 report gap)

Screwdriver sits #129 of 1000 among tracked device types with 22,481 MAUDE reports spanning 1994–2026. 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 6.9% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-23.6 pp)
  • MALF 92.5% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+28.0 pp)

Lead product-problem code Break is 40% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer SYNTHES GMBH accounts for 28% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 54% of location-tagged rows .

Screwdriver in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Screwdriver carries 22,481 MAUDE reports, ranked #129 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 20,789 (92.5%)
Injury 1,547 (6.9%)
Other 82 (0.4%)
58 (0.3%)
Death 4 (0.0%)
No answer provided 1 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

19,788 (87.7%)
Other 1,447 (6.4%)
Required Intervention 1,040 (4.6%)
Hospitalization 124 (0.5%)
R 108 (0.5%)
Disability 21 (0.1%)
O 18 (0.1%)
S 14 (0.1%)
H 7 (0.0%)
Death 4 (0.0%)
Congenital Anomaly 3 (0.0%)
L 1 (0.0%)
Life Threatening 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Break 7,336
Material Twisted/Bent 3,399
Device-Device Incompatibility 1,929
Fracture 1,384
Material Deformation 996
Naturally Worn 734
Material Integrity Problem 303
Calibration Problem 279
Contamination /Decontamination Problem 258
Dull, Blunt 240
Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 233
Material Fragmentation 221
Entrapment of Device 177
Crack 158
Mechanical Jam 134
Mechanical Problem 126
Detachment of Device or Device Component 116
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 98
Material Separation 91
Bent 87

Yearly Trend

94
1994: 9
95
1995: 7
96
1996: 27
97
1997: 69
98
1998: 79
99
1999: 21
00
2000: 14
01
2001: 46
02
2002: 71
03
2003: 51
04
2004: 28
05
2005: 55
06
2006: 55
07
2007: 167
08
2008: 450
09
2009: 488
10
2010: 374
11
2011: 234
12
2012: 293
13
2013: 1,173
14
2014: 793
15
2015: 882
16
2016: 990
17
2017: 1,369
18
2018: 1,469
19
2019: 2,012
20
2020: 1,644
21
2021: 2,001
22
2022: 1,721
23
2023: 1,733
24
2024: 1,708
25
2025: 2,153
26
2026: 295

Related Entities for Screwdriver

Top Manufacturers

SYNTHES GMBH 4,066
WRIGHTS LANE SYNTHES USA PRODUCTS LLC 2,339
MEDTRONIC SOFAMOR DANEK USA, INC 1,677
DEPUY ORTHOPAEDICS INC US 1,492
DEPUY SPINE INC 1,154
SYNTHES MONUMENT 997
SMITH & NEPHEW, INC. 915
ZIMMER BIOMET SPINE INC. 734
DEPUY SYNTHES SPINE 570
OBERDORF SYNTHES PRODUKTIONS GMBH 473

Event Locations

12,136 (54.0%)
I 9,241 (41.1%)
HOSPITAL 1,004 (4.5%)
NO INFORMATION 52 (0.2%)
INVALID DATA 12 (0.1%)
OTHER 12 (0.1%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 8 (0.0%)
UNKNOWN 8 (0.0%)
NOT APPLICABLE 4 (0.0%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 2 (0.0%)
HOME 1 (0.0%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 1 (0.0%)

Compare SYNTHES GMBH vs WRIGHTS LANE SYNTHES USA PRODUCTS LLC →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Screwdriver, 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 (22,481 here).

Instrument, Biopsy 22,556 Prosthesis 22,129 Mitral Valve Repair Devices 22,972 Implant, Dermal, For Aesthetic Use 21,719

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (4 here), distinct from the volume row.

Catheter, Urethral 4 Disinfectant, Medical Devices 4 Drill, Surgical, Ent Including Handpiece 4 Electrode 4

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Screwdriver 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 Screwdriver; 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.