2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA FDA Class II

Vehicle, Motorized 3-Wheeled

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 §890.3800 (Physical Medicine panel).

FDA MAUDE casebook

openFDA event book Vehicle, Motorized 3-Wheeled LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#432 of 1000 · 2,715 reports · 1993–2026

  • BOOK 2,715 reports
  • RANK #432 of 1000
  • DEATH 74 death-typed
  • INJ 901 injury-typed
  • MALF 623 malfunction
  • SPAN 1993–2026
  • PEAK 2014: 567
  • PHOTO Bur

Nearest event-volume peer: Bur, Ear, Nose And Throat (1 report gap)

Vehicle, Motorized 3-Wheeled sits #432 of 1000 among tracked device types with 2,715 MAUDE reports spanning 1993–2026. 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 sit below the device-type norm

Vehicle, Motorized 3-Wheeled carries 22.9% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 41.9pp below the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 2.7% corpus 1.5% · above corpus mean (+1.2 pp)
  • INJ 33.2% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+2.9 pp)
  • MALF 22.9% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-41.9 pp)

Lead product-problem code Appropriate Device Problem Term/Code Not Available is 13% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer UNKNOWN accounts for 55% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 69% of location-tagged rows .

Vehicle, Motorized 3-Wheeled in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Vehicle, Motorized 3-Wheeled carries 2,715 MAUDE reports, ranked #432 of 1000.

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

Event Types

956 (35.2%)
Injury 901 (33.2%)
Malfunction 623 (22.9%)
Other 161 (5.9%)
Death 74 (2.7%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Other 1,422 (49.7%)
Hospitalization 541 (18.9%)
392 (13.7%)
Required Intervention 219 (7.7%)
R 84 (2.9%)
Death 72 (2.5%)
Life Threatening 60 (2.1%)
O 40 (1.4%)
L 10 (0.3%)
S 8 (0.3%)
H 5 (0.2%)
Disability 4 (0.1%)
Congenital Anomaly 2 (0.1%)

Top Product Problems

Appropriate Device Problem Term/Code Not Available 308
Device Tipped Over 217
Break 208
Product Quality Problem 174
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 164
Device Stops Intermittently 160
Unintended Movement 135
Use of Device Problem 129
Unstable 121
Unknown (for use when the device problem is not known) 112
Other (for use when an appropriate device code cannot be identified) 99
Unintended System Motion 96
Fire 91
Device Inoperable 89
Crack 72
Detachment Of Device Component 61
Component(s), broken 60
Fracture 52
Loss of Power 51
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 49

Yearly Trend

93
1993: 2
94
1994: 5
95
1995: 4
96
1996: 9
97
1997: 8
98
1998: 77
99
1999: 57
00
2000: 53
01
2001: 81
02
2002: 87
03
2003: 114
04
2004: 87
05
2005: 82
06
2006: 48
07
2007: 64
08
2008: 29
09
2009: 25
10
2010: 56
11
2011: 70
12
2012: 172
13
2013: 454
14
2014: 567
15
2015: 151
16
2016: 76
17
2017: 45
18
2018: 51
19
2019: 25
20
2020: 26
21
2021: 41
22
2022: 41
23
2023: 32
24
2024: 31
25
2025: 27
26
2026: 18

Reports in 2025 (27) held close to the prior two-year average of 32.

Related Entities for Vehicle, Motorized 3-Wheeled

Top Manufacturers

Event Locations

1,862 (68.6%)
HOME 301 (11.1%)
I 273 (10.1%)
OTHER 178 (6.6%)
UNKNOWN 24 (0.9%)
NOT APPLICABLE 21 (0.8%)
NO INFORMATION 16 (0.6%)
NURSING HOME 14 (0.5%)
HOSPITAL 12 (0.4%)
INVALID DATA 6 (0.2%)
OUTDOORS 3 (0.1%)
STREET 3 (0.1%)
PUBLIC VENUE 2 (0.1%)

Compare UNKNOWN vs INVACARE TAYLOR STREET →

Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Vehicle, Motorized 3-Wheeled: 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 (2,715 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (74 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Vehicle, Motorized 3-Wheeled 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 Vehicle, Motorized 3-Wheeled; 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.