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Tap, Bone

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 Tap, Bone LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#600 of 1000 · 1,235 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 1,235 reports
  • RANK #600 of 1000
  • DEATH 0 death-typed
  • INJ 154 injury-typed
  • MALF 1,065 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 2019: 125
  • PHOTO Peripheral Mechanical…

Nearest event-volume peer: Peripheral Mechanical Thrombectomy With Aspiration (4 report gap)

Tap, Bone sits #600 of 1000 among tracked device types with 1,235 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 →

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 12.5% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-18.0 pp)
  • MALF 86.2% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+21.7 pp)

Lead product-problem code Break is 47% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer WRIGHTS LANE SYNTHES USA PRODUCTS LLC accounts for 39% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 55% of location-tagged rows .

Tap, Bone in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Tap, Bone carries 1,235 MAUDE reports, ranked #600 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 1,065 (86.2%)
Injury 154 (12.5%)
Other 11 (0.9%)
5 (0.4%)

Patient Outcomes

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

976 (80.1%)
Other 118 (9.7%)
Required Intervention 91 (7.5%)
Hospitalization 15 (1.2%)
R 13 (1.1%)
O 3 (0.2%)
S 2 (0.2%)

Top Product Problems

Break 439
Device-Device Incompatibility 197
Contamination /Decontamination Problem 67
Fracture 61
Material Deformation 26
Failure to Cut 24
Material Fragmentation 20
Entrapment of Device 17
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 11
Material Separation 11
Crack 10
Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 9
Material Twisted/Bent 9
Material Integrity Problem 7
Mechanical Jam 7
Detachment of Device or Device Component 6
Device Contamination with Chemical or Other Material 6
Difficult to Remove 6
Detachment Of Device Component 5
Mechanical Problem 4

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 1
93
1993: 3
96
1996: 6
97
1997: 8
98
1998: 4
99
1999: 2
00
2000: 2
01
2001: 1
03
2003: 1
04
2004: 7
05
2005: 4
06
2006: 5
07
2007: 11
08
2008: 7
09
2009: 37
10
2010: 38
11
2011: 38
12
2012: 17
13
2013: 60
14
2014: 43
15
2015: 66
16
2016: 72
17
2017: 43
18
2018: 52
19
2019: 125
20
2020: 85
21
2021: 91
22
2022: 91
23
2023: 84
24
2024: 84
25
2025: 103
26
2026: 44

Related Entities for Tap, Bone

Top Manufacturers

WRIGHTS LANE SYNTHES USA PRODUCTS LLC 258
SYNTHES GMBH 215
DEPUY SPINE INC 73
OBERDORF SYNTHES PRODUKTIONS GMBH 48
SYNTHES MONUMENT 38
DEPUY SYNTHES SPINE 34

Event Locations

677 (54.8%)
I 460 (37.2%)
HOSPITAL 85 (6.9%)
NO INFORMATION 6 (0.5%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 4 (0.3%)
INVALID DATA 2 (0.2%)
OTHER 1 (0.1%)

Compare WRIGHTS LANE SYNTHES USA PRODUCTS LLC vs SYNTHES GMBH →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Tap, Bone, 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 (1,235 here).

Peripheral Mechanical Thrombectomy With Asp… 1,239 Intervertebral Fusion Device With Integrate… 1,246 Stent, Iliac Vein 1,224 System 1,248

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (0 here), distinct from the volume row.

Aberrometer, Ophthalmic 0 Accessories, Arthroscopic 0 Accessories, Cleaning Brushes, For Endoscope 0 Accessories, Implant, Dental, Endosseous 0

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Tap, 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 Tap, 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.