Tape, Measuring, Rulers And Calipers
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 Tape, Measuring, Rulers And Calipers LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#941 of 1000 · 435 reports · 2003–2026
- BOOK 435 reports
- RANK #941 of 1000
- DEATH 0 death-typed
- INJ 20 injury-typed
- MALF 412 malfunction
- SPAN 2003–2026
- PEAK 2021: 161
- PHOTO Condenser
Nearest event-volume peer: Condenser, Heat And Moisture (Artificial Nose) (0 report gap)
Tape, Measuring, Rulers And Calipers sits #941 of 1000 among tracked device types with 435 MAUDE reports spanning 2003–2026. 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
Tape, Measuring, Rulers And Calipers carries 94.7% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 29.9pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 0.0% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.5 pp)
- INJ 4.6% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-25.7 pp)
- MALF 94.7% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+29.9 pp)
Lead product-problem code Break is 73% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer SMITH & NEPHEW, INC. accounts for 95% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location I is 52% of location-tagged rows .
Tape, Measuring, Rulers And Calipers in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
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Tape, Measuring, Rulers And Calipers
435 reports
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435 reports
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What this shows Tape, Measuring, Rulers And Calipers carries 435 MAUDE reports, ranked #941 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 in 2025 (9) held close to the prior two-year average of 11.
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Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable report-volume footprint
Tape, Measuring, Rulers And Calipers 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 (435 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 Tape, Measuring, Rulers And Calipers 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 Tape, Measuring, Rulers And Calipers; 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.