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Washer, Bolt Nut

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 Washer, Bolt Nut LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#573 of 1000 · 1,404 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 1,404 reports
  • RANK #573 of 1000
  • DEATH 1 death-typed
  • INJ 691 injury-typed
  • MALF 689 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 2024: 269
  • PHOTO External Mandibular F…

Nearest event-volume peer: External Mandibular Fixator And/Or Distractor (1 report gap)

Washer, Bolt Nut sits #573 of 1000 among tracked device types with 1,404 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 0.1% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.4 pp)
  • INJ 49.2% corpus 30.4% · above corpus mean (+18.8 pp)
  • MALF 49.1% corpus 64.5% · below corpus mean (-15.4 pp)

Lead product-problem code Break is 35% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer ARTHREX, INC. accounts for 55% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 69% of location-tagged rows .

Washer, Bolt Nut in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Washer, Bolt Nut carries 1,404 MAUDE reports, ranked #573 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Injury 691 (49.2%)
Malfunction 689 (49.1%)
Other 20 (1.4%)
3 (0.2%)
Death 1 (0.1%)

Patient Outcomes

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

685 (47.6%)
Required Intervention 381 (26.5%)
Other 302 (21.0%)
R 36 (2.5%)
Hospitalization 23 (1.6%)
O 6 (0.4%)
H 2 (0.1%)
S 2 (0.1%)
Disability 2 (0.1%)
Death 1 (0.1%)

Top Product Problems

Break 374
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 198
Device-Device Incompatibility 76
Material Split, Cut or Torn 46
Detachment of Device or Device Component 45
Patient Device Interaction Problem 41
Device Dislodged or Dislocated 37
Positioning Failure 31
Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 25
Difficult to Advance 25
Device Slipped 23
Migration 23
Entrapment of Device 22
Use of Device Problem 21
Defective Device 18
Physical Resistance/Sticking 16
Failure to Advance 13
Fracture 11
Insufficient Information 8
Loosening of Implant Not Related to Bone-Ingrowth 8

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 1
93
1993: 1
94
1994: 1
96
1996: 5
97
1997: 4
98
1998: 2
99
1999: 3
00
2000: 1
01
2001: 2
02
2002: 3
03
2003: 2
04
2004: 4
05
2005: 7
06
2006: 10
07
2007: 14
08
2008: 11
09
2009: 22
10
2010: 17
11
2011: 12
12
2012: 69
13
2013: 45
14
2014: 33
15
2015: 35
16
2016: 43
17
2017: 30
18
2018: 48
19
2019: 53
20
2020: 81
21
2021: 149
22
2022: 85
23
2023: 108
24
2024: 269
25
2025: 194
26
2026: 40

Related Entities for Washer, Bolt Nut

Top Manufacturers

ARTHREX, INC. 611
SYNTHES GMBH 195
SYNTHES USA 88
WRIGHTS LANE SYNTHES USA PRODUCTS LLC 67
ARTHREX, INC. 37
ZIMMER BIOMET, INC. 34
OBERDORF SYNTHES PRODUKTIONS GMBH 28
SYNTHES (USA) 27
SMITH & NEPHEW, INC. 24

Event Locations

973 (69.3%)
I 380 (27.1%)
HOSPITAL 38 (2.7%)
NO INFORMATION 7 (0.5%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 3 (0.2%)
INVALID DATA 2 (0.1%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 1 (0.1%)

Compare ARTHREX, INC. vs SYNTHES GMBH →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Washer, Bolt Nut, 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 (1,404 here).

External Mandibular Fixator And/Or Distract… 1,403 Lens, Intraocular, Accommodative 1,402 Confocal Optical Imaging 1,409 Prosthesis 1,410

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (1 here), distinct from the volume row.

Abutment, Implant, Dental, Endosseous 1 Active Implantable Bone Conduction Hearing… 1 Aid, Surgical, Viscoelastic 1 Alarm, Conditioned Response Enuresis 1

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Washer, Bolt Nut 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 Washer, Bolt Nut; 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.