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Wheelchair, Powered

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 Wheelchair, Powered MID-BOOK · MAUDE

#104 of 1000 · 30,441 reports · 1994–2026

  • BOOK 30,441 reports
  • RANK #104 of 1000
  • DEATH 185 death-typed
  • INJ 2,916 injury-typed
  • MALF 26,721 malfunction
  • SPAN 1994–2026
  • PEAK 2013: 8,741
  • PHOTO Monitor

Nearest event-volume peer: Monitor, Physiological, Patient(With Arrhythmia Detection Or Alarms) (448 report gap)

Wheelchair, Powered sits #104 of 1000 among tracked device types with 30,441 MAUDE reports spanning 1994–2026. 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 0.6% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-0.9 pp)
  • INJ 9.6% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-20.9 pp)
  • MALF 87.8% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+23.3 pp)

Lead product-problem code Failure to Shut Off is 17% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer INVACARE TAYLOR STREET accounts for 88% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 86% of location-tagged rows .

Wheelchair, Powered in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Wheelchair, Powered carries 30,441 MAUDE reports, ranked #104 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Malfunction 26,721 (87.8%)
Injury 2,916 (9.6%)
Other 364 (1.2%)
255 (0.8%)
Death 185 (0.6%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Other 23,644 (76.4%)
3,975 (12.8%)
Hospitalization 1,757 (5.7%)
Required Intervention 649 (2.1%)
R 299 (1.0%)
Death 191 (0.6%)
Life Threatening 191 (0.6%)
O 120 (0.4%)
S 36 (0.1%)
H 34 (0.1%)
L 26 (0.1%)
Congenital Anomaly 18 (0.1%)
Disability 16 (0.1%)
D 3 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Failure to Shut Off 964
Electrical /Electronic Property Problem 921
Device Remains Activated 894
Appropriate Term/Code Not Available 759
Break 334
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 326
Mechanical Problem 315
Unintended Movement 212
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 174
Use of Device Problem 171
Bent 89
Unintended Collision 86
Insufficient Information 85
Detachment of Device or Device Component 73
Fracture 73
Fire 68
Loss of Power 68
Detachment Of Device Component 61
Device Stops Intermittently 59
Self-Activation or Keying 58

Yearly Trend

94
1994: 9
95
1995: 2
96
1996: 34
97
1997: 110
98
1998: 147
99
1999: 106
00
2000: 188
01
2001: 259
02
2002: 134
03
2003: 101
04
2004: 110
05
2005: 86
06
2006: 114
07
2007: 123
08
2008: 133
09
2009: 183
10
2010: 157
11
2011: 525
12
2012: 2,919
13
2013: 8,741
14
2014: 7,282
15
2015: 4,685
16
2016: 1,575
17
2017: 301
18
2018: 273
19
2019: 264
20
2020: 205
21
2021: 166
22
2022: 135
23
2023: 223
24
2024: 146
25
2025: 651
26
2026: 354

Related Entities for Wheelchair, Powered

Top Manufacturers

INVACARE TAYLOR STREET 20,016
INVACARE SUZHOU 1,597
UNKNOWN 1,228

Event Locations

26,045 (85.6%)
I 3,865 (12.7%)
HOME 177 (0.6%)
NO INFORMATION 108 (0.4%)
OTHER 92 (0.3%)
INVALID DATA 54 (0.2%)
UNKNOWN 48 (0.2%)
HOSPITAL 19 (0.1%)
NURSING HOME 16 (0.1%)
NOT APPLICABLE 11 (0.0%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 1 (0.0%)
OUTDOORS 1 (0.0%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 1 (0.0%)
PUBLIC BUILDING 1 (0.0%)
PUBLIC VENUE 1 (0.0%)
STREET 1 (0.0%)

Compare INVACARE TAYLOR STREET vs INVACARE SUZHOU →

Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Wheelchair, Powered, 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 (30,441 here).

Monitor, Physiological, Patient 29,993 Dialysate Concentrate For Hemodialysis 29,912 Pump, Infusion, Pca 31,340 Prosthesis 31,425

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (185 here), distinct from the volume row.

Prosthesis 184 Bronchoscope 187 Duodenoscope And Accessories, Flexible/Rigid 182 Transcatheter Septal Occluder 182

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

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Wheelchair, Powered 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, Powered; 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.