ETHICON INC.

Manufacturer adverse-event records for ETHICON INC. 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 · 1992–2026 · heavy-book · typical Death-code · injury-heavy

Volume signature

ETHICON INC. sits in the heavy MAUDE book

ETHICON INC. accounts for 132,457 FDA MAUDE reports (#21 of 443, heavy-book tercile). Death-coded event_type share is 0.22% (typical); Injury share 54.3% (injury-heavy).

What the volume reading shows for ETHICON INC.

The standout signal for ETHICON INC. is filing volume: 132,457 adverse-event reports in FDA MAUDE (#21 of 443, heavy-book). Death-coded event_type share sits at 0.22% (typical).

As a heavy-book manufacturer, portfolio size and reporting obligations inflate absolute counts - pair ETHICON INC. 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 71,939 (54.3% of event_type total). Peak single-year volume reaches 22,176 reports across 35 years. These are raw FDA submissions, not adjudicated findings. Snapshot . Verify current communications on the FDA MDR page.

132,457
Total Reports
292
Event-type Death
71,939
Injury Reports
20
Device Types

Event Types

Injury 71,939 (54.3%)
Malfunction 60,173 (45.4%)
Death 292 (0.2%)
42 (0.0%)
Other 11 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Required Intervention 66,227 (49.8%)
62,295 (46.8%)
Other 2,843 (2.1%)
R 700 (0.5%)
Hospitalization 473 (0.4%)
Death 321 (0.2%)
D 53 (0.0%)
O 42 (0.0%)
S 31 (0.0%)
Life Threatening 31 (0.0%)
H 23 (0.0%)
L 16 (0.0%)
Disability 12 (0.0%)
Congenital Anomaly 6 (0.0%)

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 1
93
1993: 1
94
1994: 3
95
1995: 6
96
1996: 17
97
1997: 134
98
1998: 159
99
1999: 3
00
2000: 2
01
2001: 2
02
2002: 3
03
2003: 5
04
2004: 2
05
2005: 5
06
2006: 5
07
2007: 2
08
2008: 5
09
2009: 1
10
2010: 5
11
2011: 137
12
2012: 412
13
2013: 22,176
14
2014: 3,786
15
2015: 5,087
16
2016: 4,406
17
2017: 3,162
18
2018: 7,701
19
2019: 11,640
20
2020: 9,635
21
2021: 12,453
22
2022: 10,520
23
2023: 10,233
24
2024: 13,974
25
2025: 14,667
26
2026: 2,107