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Division: D - Manufacturing

US-SIC Code 3842 - Orthopedic, Prosthetic, and Surgical Appliances and Supplies

Industry Description

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.

Business Examples

Common types of business activities within US SIC 3842 - Orthopedic, Prosthetic, and Surgical Appliances and Supplies are:

  • 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

IBISWorld Industry Research Report

Sanitary Paper Product Manufacturing in the US (32229a)

Revenue 2025

$14.6bn

Growth 2025

-0.62%

Key Trends

  • Volatile input costs, particularly natural gas and wood pulp, have affected industry growth

  • Growth in the number of households and of individuals over the age of 65 supported industry growth

  • The aging US population will support industry performance

Products and Services

US-SIC Hierarchy 3842 - Orthopedic, Prosthetic, and Surgical Appliances and Supplies

US-SIC Code 3842 - Orthopedic, Prosthetic, and Surgical Appliances and Supplies sits in the 2-digit Orthopedic, Prosthetic, and Surgical Appliances and Supplies sector. US SIC codes can be 2 to 8 digits and the further along the hierarchy, the more detailed and specific the category will be.

Division: D

Division Title: Manufacturing

2 Digits 3 Digits 4 Digits

Extended US-SIC Hierarchy for 3842 - Orthopedic, Prosthetic, and Surgical Appliances and Supplies

For business marketing and targeting, US SIC Codes have been extended to provide more specific classifications within US-SIC 3842 - Orthopedic, Prosthetic, and Surgical Appliances and Supplies. Extended US SIC Codes are being continuously updated to reflect the current business environment.

6 Digit SIC Codes

  • 384201 Respirators-manufacturers
  • 384202 Abdominal supports-manufacturers
  • 384203 Artificial limbs-manufacturers
  • 384204 Hearing aids-manufacturers
  • 384205 Orthopedic appliances-manufacturers
  • 384206 Physical therapy equipment-manufacturers
  • 384207 Safety equipment & clothing-mfrs
  • 384208 Shoes-orthopedic-manufacturers
  • 384209 Surgical appliances-manufacturers
  • 384210 Surgical dressings-manufacturers
  • 384211 First aid supplies-manufacturers
  • 384212 Foot appliances-manufacturers
  • 384213 Wheel chairs-manufacturers
  • 384214 Whirlpool bath equip & supplies-mfrs
  • 384215 Cotton-absorbent (manufacturers)
  • 384216 Foot remedies (manufacturers)
  • 384217 Collars (manufacturers)
  • 384218 Colonic therapy-apparatus & supls (mfrs)
  • 384219 Masks-protective (manufacturers)
  • 384220 Absorbents-manufacturers
  • 384221 Sterilizing apparatus-manufacturers
  • 384222 Clothing-health care
  • 384298 Orthopedic prosthetic/srgcl appl (mfrs)

8 Digit SIC Codes

  • 38420000 Surgical appliances and supplies
  • 38420100 Personal safety equipment
  • 38420101 Bulletproof vests
  • 38420102 Clothing, fire resistant and protective
  • 38420103 Ear plugs
  • 38420104 Gas masks
  • 38420105 Gloves, safety
  • 38420106 Helmets, space
  • 38420107 Life preservers, except cork and inflatable
  • 38420108 Linemen's safety belts
  • 38420109 Noise protectors, personal
  • 38420110 Nose plugs
  • 38420111 Radiation shielding aprons, gloves, sheeting, etc.
  • 38420112 Respiratory protection equipment, personal
  • 38420113 Space suits
  • 38420114 Suits, firefighting (asbestos)
  • 38420115 Welders' hoods
  • 38420200 Cotton and cotton applicators
  • 38420201 Absorbent cotton, sterilized
  • 38420202 Applicators, cotton tipped
  • 38420203 Cotton, absorbent: sterilized
  • 38420204 Cotton, including cotton balls: sterile and non-sterile
  • 38420205 Swabs, sanitary cotton
  • 38420300 Prosthetic appliances
  • 38420301 Cosmetic restorations
  • 38420302 Implants, surgical
  • 38420303 Limbs, artificial
  • 38420304 Models, anatomical
  • 38420305 Socks, stump
  • 38420400 Orthopedic appliances
  • 38420401 Abdominal supporters, braces, and trusses
  • 38420402 Braces, elastic
  • 38420403 Braces, orthopedic
  • 38420404 Canes, orthopedic
  • 38420405 Cervical collars
  • 38420406 Corn remover pads, bunion pads, etc.
  • 38420407 Corsets, surgical
  • 38420408 Crutches and walkers
  • 38420409 Elastic hosiery, orthopedic (support)
  • 38420410 Extension shoes, orthopedic
  • 38420411 Foot appliances, orthopedic
  • 38420412 Hearing aids
  • 38420413 Hosiery, support
  • 38420414 Splints, pneumatic and wood
  • 38420415 Supports: abdominal, ankle, arch, kneecap, etc.
  • 38420416 Suspensories
  • 38420417 Technical aids for the handicapped
  • 38420418 Trusses, orthopedic and surgical
  • 38420419 Walkers
  • 38420420 Wheelchairs
  • 38420500 Bandages and dressings
  • 38420501 Bandages: plastic, muslin, plaster of paris, etc.
  • 38420502 Dressings, surgical
  • 38420503 Gauze, surgical
  • 38429900 Surgical appliances and supplies, nec
  • 38429901 Adhesive tape and plasters, medicated or non-medicated
  • 38429902 Atomizers, medical
  • 38429903 Autoclaves, hospital and surgical
  • 38429904 Belts: surgical, sanitary, and corrective
  • 38429905 Colostomy appliances
  • 38429906 Drapes, surgical (cotton)
  • 38429907 First aid, snake bite, and burn kits
  • 38429908 Fracture appliances, surgical
  • 38429909 Grafts, artificial: for surgery
  • 38429910 Gynecological supplies and appliances
  • 38429911 Hydrotherapy equipment
  • 38429912 Infant incubators
  • 38429913 Intra-uterine devices
  • 38429914 Iron lungs
  • 38429915 Ligatures, medical
  • 38429916 Respirators
  • 38429917 Restraints, patient
  • 38429918 Sponges, surgical
  • 38429919 Sterilizers, hospital and surgical
  • 38429920 Stockinette, surgical
  • 38429921 Stretchers
  • 38429922 Surgical appliances and supplies
  • 38429923 Sutures, absorbable and non-absorbable
  • 38429924 Tape, adhesive: medicated or non-medicated
  • 38429925 Tongue depressors
  • 38429926 Traction apparatus
  • 38429927 Whirlpool baths, hydrotherapy equipment

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A 01-09 Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing
B 10-14 Mining
C 15-17 Construction
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I 70-89 Services
J 90-99 Public Administration

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