Division D: Manufacturing | Major Group 38: Measuring, Analyzing, And Controlling Instruments; Photographic, Medical And Optical Goods; Watches And Clocks | Industry Group 384: Surgical, Medical, And Dental Instruments And Supplies

3842 Orthopedic, Prosthetic, and Surgical Appliances and Supplies
Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing orthopedic, prosthetic, and surgical appliances and supplies, arch supports and other foot appliances; fracture appliances, elastic hosiery, abdominal supporters, braces, and trusses; bandages; surgical gauze and dressings; sutures; adhesive tapes and medicated plasters; and personal safety appliances and equipment. Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing surgical and medical instruments are classified in Industry 3841. Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing orthopedic or prosthetic appliances and in the personal fitting to the individual prescription by a physician are classified in Retail Trade, Industry 5999.

• Abdominal supporters, braces, and trusses
• Absorbent cotton, sterilized
• Adhesive tape and plasters, medicated or non-medicated
• Applicators, cotton tipped
• Atomizers, medical
• Autoclaves, hospital and surgical
• Bandages and dressings, surgical and orthopedic
• Bandages: plastics, muslin, and plaster of paris
• Belts: sanitary, surgical, and corrective
• Braces, elastic
• Braces, orthopedic
• Bulletproof vests
• Canes, orthopedic
• Cervical collars
• Clothing, fire resistant and protective
• Colostomy appliances
• Corn remover and bunion pads
• Corsets, surgical
• Cosmetic restorations
• Cotton, absorbent: sterilized
• Cotton, including cotton balls
• Crutches and walkers
• Drapes, surgical: cotton
• Dressings, surgical
• Ear stoppers
• Elastic hosiery, orthopedic
• Extension shoes, orthopedic
• First aid, snake bite, and burn kits
• Foot appliances, orthopedic
• Fracture appliances, surgical
• Gas masks
• Gauze, surgical: not made in weaving mills
• Grafts, artificial: for surgery-made of braided or mesh artificial fibers
• Gynecological supplies and appliances
• Hearing aids
• Helmets, space
• Hosiery, support
• Hydrotherapy equipment
• Implants, surgical
• Infant incubators
• Intrauterine devices
• Iron lungs
• Life preservers, except cork and inflatable
• Ligatures, medical
• Limbs, artificial
• Linemen's safety belts
• Models, anatomical
• Noise protectors, personal
• Orthopedic devices and materials
• Pads, incontinent and bed
• Personal safety appliances and equipment
• Plugs, ear and nose
• Prosthetic appliances and supplies
• Radiation shielding aprons, gloves, and sheeting
• Respirators
• Respiratory protection equipment, personal
• Restraints, patient
• Safety appliances and equipment, personal
• Safety gloves, all materials
• Socks, stump
• Space suits
• Splints, pneumatic and wood
• Sponges, surgical
• Sterilizers, hospital and surgical
• Stockinette, surgical
• Stretchers
• Suits, firefighting: asbestos
• Supports: abdominal, ankle, arch, and kneecap
• Surgical appliances and supplies, except medical instruments
• Suspensories
• Sutures
• Swabs, sanitary cotton
• Tongue depressors
• Traction apparatus
• Trusses: orthopedic and surgical
• Welders'hoods
• Wheel chairs
• Whirlpool baths, hydrotherapy equipment