Power-LOAD Cot Fastening System
Medical device recall Z-1389-2018. Published in FDA’s Enforcement Report on Apr 25, 2018.
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The short answer
Published in FDA’s Enforcement Report on Apr 25, 2018. Copied from openFDA on Oct 20, 2026.
- Class II FDA’s class
- Terminated its status, in FDA’s file
- Nationwide FDA’s word for where it went
- 4724 how much, in FDA’s words
Every line below is in FDA’s own words, with its source beside it. FDA’s terms are explained in FDA’s own words.
How serious is it, by FDA’s class?
Class II, the middle of FDA’s three classes.
“Products that might cause a temporary health problem, or pose only a slight threat of a serious nature. Example: a drug that is under-strength but that is not used to treat life-threatening situations.”
openFDA, in plain words, its enforcement report fields.
“Class II is a situation in which use of, or exposure to, a violative product may cause temporary or medically reversible adverse health consequences or where the probability of serious adverse health consequences is remote.”
FDA’s rule, 21 CFR 7.3(m)(2), eCFR.
What these words mean is quoted from openFDA’s field reference and 21 CFR 7.3.
What’s wrong with it?
The power load floor plates which hold the ambulance cot anchors in place during patient transport, may be broken.
FDA, Device recall enforcement reports. Released Oct 14, 2026. Updated weekly.
Which ones are recalled?
Power-LOAD Cot Fastening System, Model #6390, Catalog #6390-000-000, UDI: 07613327261523 Power-LOAD is intended to assist with loading and unloading of a compatible wheeled stretcher (ambulance cot) to and from a transport vehicle and to secure the ambulance cot during transport. The device has a maximum safe working load of 870 lb (395 kg), which includes the weight of the ambulance cot, patient, and equipment attached to the cot (such as oxygen bottles, monitors, and pumps). The intended users of the device are trained professionals, including emergency medical service and medical care center personnel, as well as medical first responders, service technicians and installers.
4724, in FDA’s words.
FDA, Device recall enforcement reports. Released Oct 14, 2026. Updated weekly.
Codes to check against yours
Serial numbers: 160139700 160139701 160139702 160139704 160139705 160139706 160139707 160139708 160139709 160139710 160139711 160139712 160139713 160139714 160139743 160139744 160139745 160139746 160139747 160139748 160139749 160139750…
Every code shown here, 1,996 characters
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FDA’s list runs to 106,446 characters. The first part is shown; the rest is on FDA’s record.
Copied exactly as FDA lists them: lot and serial numbers, dates and other codes on the product or its label.
Where did it go?
FDA’s words for the “general area of initial distribution”: where the firm first shipped it.
Worldwide Distribution - USA (nationwide) and to the countries of : Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, India, Netherlands, Portugal, Saint Martin, Switzerland, United Kingdom
These words name no state.
What FDA means by nationwide
“The term “nationwide” is defined to mean the fifty states or a significant portion. Note that subsequent distribution by the consignees to other parties may not be included.”
openFDA, its enforcement report fields.
The words say it went outside the United States too.
What these words mean is quoted from openFDA’s field reference and 21 CFR 7.3.
Is it still going on?
Terminated, in FDA’s file.
“FDA has determined that all reasonable efforts have been made to remove or correct the violative product in accordance with the recall strategy, and proper disposition has been made according to the degree of hazard.”
openFDA, on “Terminated”, its enforcement report fields.
What these words mean is quoted from openFDA’s field reference and 21 CFR 7.3.
- The firm began the recall on Mar 12, 2018.
- FDA classified it on Apr 17, 2018.
- FDA’s Enforcement Report published it on Apr 25, 2018.
- FDA terminated it on May 12, 2020.
FDA, Device recall enforcement reports. Released Oct 14, 2026. Updated weekly.
Who is recalling it?
- Stryker Medical Division of Stryker Corporation, of Portage, MI.
- Who began it, in FDA’s words: Voluntary: Firm initiated.
- How the firm first told its customers: Letter.
FDA, Device recall enforcement reports. Released Oct 14, 2026. Updated weekly.
What this record can’t tell you
- Whether your own one is affected: compare the codes, dates and numbers above with yours. When unsure, ask the firm or the store.
- Where it went after the firm’s first shipments. FDA’s words cover the firm’s initial distribution, and, in FDA’s words, “subsequent distribution by the consignees to other parties may not be included.”
- How many have been returned, corrected or destroyed: FDA’s report doesn’t say.
- Whether anyone was hurt or fell ill: the report doesn’t say.
- How current it is: openFDA publishes FDA’s Enforcement Report weekly, after FDA does, and a firm can announce a recall weeks before it appears there. openFDA’s own caution: “This data should not be used as a method to collect data to issue alerts to the public, nor should it be used to track the lifecycle of a recall.”
- FDA’s list of codes runs to 106,446 characters; the first part is shown here, and the rest is on FDA’s record.
- A product with no recall here isn’t safe by that: FDA’s report lists the recalls FDA classified, and when.
Hearth Record wrote these lines; the quotations are FDA’s.
Sources
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U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Device recall enforcement reports.
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