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 79,360 FDA MAUDE reports (#38 of 443, heavy-book tercile). Death-coded event_type share is 0.39% (typical); Injury share 66.2% (injury-heavy).

What the volume reading shows for ZIMMER BIOMET, INC.

The standout signal for ZIMMER BIOMET, INC. is filing volume: 79,360 adverse-event reports in FDA MAUDE (#38 of 443, heavy-book). Death-coded event_type share sits at 0.39% (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 52,543 (66.2% 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.

79,360
Total Reports
311
Event-type Death
52,543
Injury Reports
20
Device Types

Event Types

Injury 52,543 (66.2%)
Malfunction 26,506 (33.4%)
Death 311 (0.4%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Hospitalization 27,980 (24.3%)
R 27,212 (23.6%)
26,488 (23.0%)
Other 12,841 (11.1%)
Required Intervention 11,285 (9.8%)
H 7,250 (6.3%)
O 1,533 (1.3%)
Death 329 (0.3%)
S 118 (0.1%)
Disability 81 (0.1%)
Life Threatening 50 (0.0%)
L 37 (0.0%)
D 35 (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: 1,110