Wheelchair, Mechanical
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 I (lowest regulatory risk tier, general controls), regulated under 21 CFR §890.3850 (Physical Medicine panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Wheelchair, Mechanical MID-BOOK · MAUDE
#116 of 1000 · 26,370 reports · 1992–2026
- BOOK 26,370 reports
- RANK #116 of 1000
- DEATH 55 death-typed
- INJ 1,060 injury-typed
- MALF 23,320 malfunction
- SPAN 1992–2026
- PEAK 2014: 5,082
- PHOTO Device
Nearest event-volume peer: Device, Neurovascular Embolization (159 report gap)
Wheelchair, Mechanical sits #116 of 1000 among tracked device types with 26,370 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 sit below the device-type norm
Wheelchair, Mechanical carries 4.0% INJURY-coded reports, 26.3pp below the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 0.2% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.3 pp)
- INJ 4.0% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-26.3 pp)
- MALF 88.4% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+23.6 pp)
Lead product-problem code Break is 37% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer INVAMEX accounts for 57% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 77% of location-tagged rows .
Wheelchair, Mechanical in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Stapler
Stapler, Surgical
26,629 reports
- System
System, Thermal Regulating
26,611 reports
- Test
Test, Time, Prothrombin
26,539 reports
- Wheelchair (this)
Wheelchair, Mechanical
26,370 reports
- Device
Device, Neurovascular Embolization
26,211 reports
- Tubes
Tubes, Gastrointestinal (And Accessories)
26,072 reports
What this shows Wheelchair, Mechanical carries 26,370 MAUDE reports, ranked #116 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 (138) held close to the prior two-year average of 152.
Related Entities for Wheelchair, Mechanical
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Wheelchair, Mechanical: 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 (26,370 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (55 here), distinct from the volume row.
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.