ZIMMER, INC.

Manufacturer adverse-event records for ZIMMER, 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

Injury-mix signature

ZIMMER, INC. leans injury-heavy in event_type mix

Injury-coded event_type share is 70.9% (injury-heavy tercile) beside 0.48% Death-coded (typical). Volume band: heavy.

What the Injury-mix reading shows for ZIMMER, INC.

The standout signal for ZIMMER, INC. is Injury-mix: 70.9% Injury-coded (injury-heavy) beside 0.48% Death-coded, on a heavy-book footprint.

As a heavy-book manufacturer, portfolio size and reporting obligations inflate absolute counts - pair ZIMMER, 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 17,108 (70.9% of event_type total). Peak single-year volume reaches 5,573 reports across 35 years. These are raw FDA submissions, not adjudicated findings. Snapshot . Verify current communications on the FDA MDR page.

24,131
Total Reports
117
Event-type Death
17,108
Injury Reports
20
Device Types

Event Types

Injury 17,108 (70.9%)
Malfunction 6,646 (27.5%)
Other 219 (0.9%)
Death 117 (0.5%)
41 (0.2%)

Patient Outcomes

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

6,866 (22.1%)
R 6,575 (21.2%)
Hospitalization 6,524 (21.0%)
Required Intervention 5,852 (18.8%)
Other 4,674 (15.1%)
O 238 (0.8%)
Death 119 (0.4%)
Disability 60 (0.2%)
S 55 (0.2%)
H 34 (0.1%)
Life Threatening 30 (0.1%)
L 12 (0.0%)
Congenital Anomaly 7 (0.0%)

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 40
93
1993: 30
94
1994: 62
95
1995: 72
96
1996: 155
97
1997: 160
98
1998: 143
99
1999: 145
00
2000: 143
01
2001: 138
02
2002: 168
03
2003: 218
04
2004: 171
05
2005: 268
06
2006: 329
07
2007: 469
08
2008: 972
09
2009: 1,252
10
2010: 1,160
11
2011: 2,354
12
2012: 2,243
13
2013: 1,566
14
2014: 1,561
15
2015: 1,246
16
2016: 3,279
17
2017: 5,573
18
2018: 27
19
2019: 28
20
2020: 40
21
2021: 10
22
2022: 19
23
2023: 34
24
2024: 29
25
2025: 26
26
2026: 1