ZIMMER BIOMET, INC.

Manufacturer adverse-event records for ZIMMER BIOMET, 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 · 2012–2026 · heavy-book · typical Death-code · injury-heavy

Volume signature

ZIMMER BIOMET, INC. sits in the heavy MAUDE book

ZIMMER BIOMET, INC. accounts for 83,054 FDA MAUDE reports (#42 of 434, heavy-book tercile). Death-coded event_type share is 0.41% (typical); Injury share 66.0% (injury-heavy).

What the volume reading shows for ZIMMER BIOMET, INC.

The standout signal for ZIMMER BIOMET, INC. is filing volume: 83,054 adverse-event reports in FDA MAUDE (#42 of 434, heavy-book). Death-coded event_type share sits at 0.41% (typical).

As a heavy-book manufacturer, portfolio size and reporting obligations inflate absolute counts - pair ZIMMER BIOMET, 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 54,824 (66.0% of event_type total). Peak single-year volume reaches 17,336 reports across 15 years. These are raw FDA submissions, not adjudicated findings. Snapshot . Verify current communications on the FDA MDR page.

83,054
Total Reports
342
Event-type Death
54,824
Injury Reports
20
Device Types

Event Types

Injury 54,824 (66.0%)
Malfunction 27,888 (33.6%)
Death 342 (0.4%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Hospitalization 28,809 (23.9%)
R 28,045 (23.3%)
27,814 (23.1%)
Other 13,283 (11.0%)
Required Intervention 12,211 (10.1%)
H 8,136 (6.7%)
O 1,548 (1.3%)
Death 357 (0.3%)
S 129 (0.1%)
Disability 91 (0.1%)
Life Threatening 55 (0.0%)
L 53 (0.0%)
D 37 (0.0%)
Congenital Anomaly 8 (0.0%)
C 1 (0.0%)

Yearly Trend

12
2012: 5
13
2013: 11
14
2014: 43
15
2015: 82
16
2016: 40
17
2017: 6,249
18
2018: 17,336
19
2019: 10,539
20
2020: 8,112
21
2021: 6,703
22
2022: 6,208
23
2023: 6,607
24
2024: 7,141
25
2025: 9,174
26
2026: 4,804