Wrench
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 §888.4540 (Orthopedic panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Wrench LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#554 of 1000 · 1,571 reports · 1995–2026
- BOOK 1,571 reports
- RANK #554 of 1000
- DEATH 1 death-typed
- INJ 75 injury-typed
- MALF 1,489 malfunction
- SPAN 1995–2026
- PEAK 2021: 160
- PHOTO Mattress
Nearest event-volume peer: Mattress, Flotation Therapy, Non-Powered (2 report gap)
Wrench sits #554 of 1000 among tracked device types with 1,571 MAUDE reports spanning 1995–2026. 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 →
Malfunction reports run above the device-type norm
Wrench carries 94.8% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 30.0pp 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 4.8% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-25.5 pp)
- MALF 94.8% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+30.0 pp)
Lead product-problem code Break is 25% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer DEPUY ORTHOPAEDICS INC US accounts for 26% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 50% of location-tagged rows .
Wrench in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Enzyme Linked…
Enzyme Linked Immunoabsorbent Assay, Toxoplasma Gondii
1,578 reports
- Tube
Tube, Tracheal/Bronchial, Differential Ventilation (W/Wo Connector)
1,573 reports
- Wrench (this)
Wrench
1,571 reports
- Mattress
Mattress, Flotation Therapy, Non-Powered
1,569 reports
- Prosthesis
Prosthesis, Shoulder, Semi-Constrained, Metal/Polymer, Uncemented
1,564 reports
- Device
Device, Removal, Pacemaker Electrode, Percutaneous
1,561 reports
What this shows Wrench carries 1,571 MAUDE reports, ranked #554 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 (117) held close to the prior two-year average of 135.
Related Entities for Wrench
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Wrench: 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 (1,571 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (1 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Wrench 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 Wrench; 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.