Washer, Bolt Nut
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 §888.3030 (Orthopedic panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Washer, Bolt Nut LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#574 of 1000 · 1,494 reports · 1992–2026
- BOOK 1,494 reports
- RANK #574 of 1000
- DEATH 2 death-typed
- INJ 702 injury-typed
- MALF 767 malfunction
- SPAN 1992–2026
- PEAK 2024: 269
- PHOTO Endoscope, Rigid
Nearest event-volume peer: Endoscope, Rigid (1 report gap)
Washer, Bolt Nut sits #574 of 1000 among tracked device types with 1,494 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 →
Injury-coded reports run above the device-type norm
Washer, Bolt Nut carries 47.0% INJURY-coded reports, 16.7pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 0.1% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.4 pp)
- INJ 47.0% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+16.7 pp)
- MALF 51.3% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-13.5 pp)
Lead product-problem code Break is 35% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer ARTHREX, INC. accounts for 57% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 71% of location-tagged rows .
Washer, Bolt Nut in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Sterilizer
Sterilizer, Steam
1,502 reports
- Patch
Patch, Pledget And Intracardiac, Petp, Ptfe, Polypropylene
1,498 reports
- Instrument
Instrument, Cutting, Orthopedic
1,496 reports
- Endoscope
Endoscope, Rigid
1,495 reports
- Washer (this)
Washer, Bolt Nut
1,494 reports
- Radioimmunoas…
Radioimmunoassay, Parathyroid Hormone
1,479 reports
What this shows Washer, Bolt Nut carries 1,494 MAUDE reports, ranked #574 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 (194) held close to the prior two-year average of 189.
Related Entities for Washer, Bolt Nut
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Washer, Bolt Nut: 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 (1,494 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (2 here), distinct from the volume row.
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.