What are FDA adverse event reports for Wheelchair, Mechanical?

The FDA's MAUDE (Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience) database collects reports of adverse events involving medical devices. For Wheelchair, Mechanical, there are 25,664 total reports including 54 death reports and 1,044 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 Wheelchair, 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

Wheelchair, Mechanical

Name: Wheelchair, 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 Wheelchair, Mechanical MID-BOOK · MAUDE

#116 of 1000 · 25,664 reports · 1992–2026

BOOK 25,664 reports
RANK #116 of 1000
DEATH 54 death-typed
INJ 1,044 injury-typed
MALF 22,631 malfunction
SPAN 1992–2026
PEAK 2014: 5,082
PHOTO Prosthesis

Nearest event-volume peer: Prosthesis, Knee, Patellofemorotibial, Semi-Constrained, Metal/Polymer, Mobile Bearing (15 report gap)

Wheelchair, Mechanical sits #116 of 1000 among tracked device types with 25,664 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 0.2% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.3 pp)
INJ 4.1% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-26.4 pp)
MALF 88.2% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+23.7 pp)

Lead product-problem code Break is 34% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer INVAMEX accounts for 59% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 77% of location-tagged rows .

Bronchoscope

26,266
Device

25,981
Stapler

25,936
System

25,855
Wheelchair (this)

25,664
Prosthesis

25,649

What this shows Wheelchair, Mechanical carries 25,664 MAUDE reports, ranked #116 of 1000.

Event Types

Malfunction 22,631 (88.2%)

1,795 (7.0%)

Injury 1,044 (4.1%)

Other 140 (0.5%)

Death 54 (0.2%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Other 21,291 (82.2%)

3,480 (13.4%)

Required Intervention 493 (1.9%)

Hospitalization 311 (1.2%)

R 133 (0.5%)

Death 62 (0.2%)

O 47 (0.2%)

Disability 24 (0.1%)

S 23 (0.1%)

H 16 (0.1%)

Life Threatening 12 (0.0%)

Congenital Anomaly 9 (0.0%)

L 4 (0.0%)

Yearly Trend

1992: 20

1993: 9

1994: 19

1995: 12

1996: 749

1997: 1,798

1998: 1,571

1999: 1,178

2000: 1,071

2001: 329

2002: 212

2003: 38

2004: 55

2005: 37

2006: 38

2007: 36

2008: 62

2009: 54

2010: 69

2011: 232

2012: 1,238

2013: 4,674

2014: 5,082

2015: 4,472

2016: 1,860

2017: 49

2018: 58

2019: 53

2020: 43

2021: 59

2022: 37

2023: 165

2024: 138

2025: 138

2026: 9

Top Manufacturers

INVAMEX 8,136

INVACARE TAYLOR STREET 4,531

UNKNOWN 1,223

Event Locations

19,652 (76.6%)

I 3,428 (13.4%)

INVALID DATA 1,289 (5.0%)

UNKNOWN 487 (1.9%)

OTHER 225 (0.9%)

NO INFORMATION 179 (0.7%)

HOSPITAL 137 (0.5%)

NURSING HOME 129 (0.5%)

HOME 122 (0.5%)

NOT APPLICABLE 7 (0.0%)

OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 4 (0.0%)

PUBLIC VENUE 3 (0.0%)

REHABILITATION CENTER 1 (0.0%)

STREET 1 (0.0%)

Compare INVAMEX vs INVACARE TAYLOR STREET →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Wheelchair, 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 (25,664 here).

Prosthesis 25,649 System, Thermal Regulating 25,855 Stapler, Surgical 25,936 Device, Neurovascular Embolization 25,981

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (54 here), distinct from the volume row.

Occluder, Patent Ductus, Arteriosus 54 Bottle, Collection, Vacuum 55 Catheter, Balloon Type 55 Computer, Diagnostic, Programmable 53

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Wheelchair, 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 Wheelchair, 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.

Wheelchair, Mechanical

Event-type mix vs corpus