What are FDA adverse event reports for Walker, Mechanical?

The FDA's MAUDE (Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience) database collects reports of adverse events involving medical devices. For Walker, Mechanical, there are 9,696 total reports including 40 death reports and 1,500 injury reports. These reports are submitted by manufacturers, healthcare facilities, and patients. A high number of reports does not necessarily mean a device is unsafe, widely used devices naturally generate more reports.

How should I interpret MAUDE data for Walker, Mechanical?

MAUDE reports are raw adverse event submissions, not confirmed safety findings. A report that a device was involved in a death does not mean the device caused the death. Reports vary in quality and completeness. The FDA uses MAUDE data as one input among many in its safety surveillance, it does not draw conclusions from individual reports. Always consult your healthcare provider about device safety questions.

2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA

Walker, Mechanical

Name: Walker, Mechanical - FDA MAUDE Adverse Event Reports
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Adverse-event figures are drawn from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database, refreshed March 2026, see our methodology.

Compiled by PlainHospital · August 14, 2026

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openFDA event book Walker, Mechanical LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#215 of 1000 · 9,696 reports · 1992–2026

BOOK 9,696 reports
RANK #215 of 1000
DEATH 40 death-typed
INJ 1,500 injury-typed
MALF 2,892 malfunction
SPAN 1992–2026
PEAK 2014: 2,782
PHOTO Saw

Nearest event-volume peer: Saw, Powered, And Accessories (45 report gap)

Walker, Mechanical sits #215 of 1000 among tracked device types with 9,696 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 0.4% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.1 pp)
INJ 15.5% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-15.0 pp)
MALF 29.8% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-34.7 pp)

Lead product-problem code Break is 27% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer UNKNOWN accounts for 89% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 76% of location-tagged rows .

Prosthesis

9,877
Appliance

9,772
Saw

9,741
Walker (this)

9,696
Oxygenator

9,642
Keratome

9,574

What this shows Walker, Mechanical carries 9,696 MAUDE reports, ranked #215 of 1000.

Event Types

5,035 (51.9%)

Malfunction 2,892 (29.8%)

Injury 1,500 (15.5%)

Other 228 (2.4%)

Death 40 (0.4%)

No answer provided 1 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Other 7,512 (75.3%)

1,136 (11.4%)

Required Intervention 570 (5.7%)

Hospitalization 403 (4.0%)

R 162 (1.6%)

O 73 (0.7%)

Death 42 (0.4%)

H 20 (0.2%)

S 19 (0.2%)

Disability 16 (0.2%)

Congenital Anomaly 8 (0.1%)

Life Threatening 8 (0.1%)

L 5 (0.1%)

D 2 (0.0%)

Yearly Trend

1992: 4

1993: 5

1994: 9

1995: 7

1996: 23

1997: 50

1998: 40

1999: 22

2000: 30

2001: 24

2002: 24

2003: 27

2004: 20

2005: 26

2006: 56

2007: 57

2008: 132

2009: 98

2010: 75

2011: 161

2012: 1,031

2013: 2,309

2014: 2,782

2015: 1,122

2016: 499

2017: 131

2018: 126

2019: 115

2020: 117

2021: 81

2022: 114

2023: 140

2024: 84

2025: 134

2026: 21

Top Manufacturers

UNKNOWN 1,976

INVACARE TAYLOR STREET 241

Event Locations

7,411 (76.4%)

I 904 (9.3%)

HOME 693 (7.1%)

OTHER 334 (3.4%)

NO INFORMATION 125 (1.3%)

NURSING HOME 99 (1.0%)

HOSPITAL 70 (0.7%)

INVALID DATA 29 (0.3%)

UNKNOWN 22 (0.2%)

OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 3 (0.0%)

NOT APPLICABLE 2 (0.0%)

OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 2 (0.0%)

PUBLIC VENUE 2 (0.0%)

Compare UNKNOWN vs INVACARE TAYLOR STREET →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Walker, Mechanical, 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 (9,696 here).

Saw, Powered, And Accessories 9,741 Oxygenator, Cardiopulmonary Bypass 9,642 Appliance 9,772 Keratome, Ac-Powered 9,574

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (40 here), distinct from the volume row.

Appliance, Fixation, Spinal Interlaminal 40 Applier, Surgical, Clip 40 Pacemaker Lead Adaptor 40 Prosthesis, Hip, Femoral, Resurfacing 40

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Walker, Mechanical 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 Walker, Mechanical; 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.

Walker, Mechanical

Event-type mix vs corpus