BIOMET ORTHOPEDICS

Manufacturer adverse-event records for BIOMET ORTHOPEDICS come from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database via openFDA, refreshed March 2026 - see our methodology. Not medical advice.

FDA MAUDE device safety record · 2002–2025 · heavy-book · typical Death-code · injury-heavy

Injury-mix signature

BIOMET ORTHOPEDICS leans injury-heavy in event_type mix

Injury-coded event_type share is 94.7% (injury-heavy tercile) beside 0.55% Death-coded (typical). Volume band: heavy.

What the Injury-mix reading shows for BIOMET ORTHOPEDICS

The standout signal for BIOMET ORTHOPEDICS is Injury-mix: 94.7% Injury-coded (injury-heavy) beside 0.55% Death-coded, on a heavy-book footprint.

As a heavy-book manufacturer, portfolio size and reporting obligations inflate absolute counts - pair BIOMET ORTHOPEDICS with device-family pages before treating company totals as a safety verdict. Event_type Death and Injury are one code per report; Patient Outcomes below use a separate FDA population.

Reports span 20 device types, led in this extract by Injury at 32,592 (94.7% of event_type total). Peak single-year volume reaches 8,875 reports across 20 years. These are raw FDA submissions, not adjudicated findings. Snapshot . Verify current communications on the FDA MDR page.

34,434
Total Reports
191
Event-type Death
32,592
Injury Reports
20
Device Types

Event Types

Injury 32,592 (94.7%)
Malfunction 1,619 (4.7%)
Death 191 (0.6%)
26 (0.1%)
Other 6 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Hospitalization 25,536 (42.7%)
R 24,893 (41.7%)
Required Intervention 4,588 (7.7%)
Other 2,276 (3.8%)
1,623 (2.7%)
Death 204 (0.3%)
S 181 (0.3%)
O 159 (0.3%)
Disability 112 (0.2%)
Life Threatening 85 (0.1%)
H 72 (0.1%)
Congenital Anomaly 10 (0.0%)
L 6 (0.0%)

Yearly Trend

02
2002: 2
03
2003: 5
04
2004: 10
05
2005: 9
06
2006: 3
07
2007: 7
08
2008: 5
09
2009: 210
10
2010: 586
11
2011: 978
12
2012: 2,415
13
2013: 6,023
14
2014: 8,875
15
2015: 4,777
16
2016: 4,612
17
2017: 5,901
18
2018: 11
23
2023: 1
24
2024: 2
25
2025: 2