Searchable safety dossiers for 838 consumer product categories built from 20 years of CPSC ER injury data and 9,944 recalls, with danger scores, trends and demographics.
U.S. consumer product safety · CPSC NEISS 2005–2024
Is it safe?
Danger score and ER volume are separate CPSC rankings. Look up 20 years of emergency-room injury data on 838 consumer product categories: ER counts, who gets hurt, multi-year trends, and recall history.
Interactive · CPSC NEISS 2005–2024
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The national picture
According to CPSC NEISS 2005–2024, Floors Or Flooring Materials leads estimated ER volume at 1.6M/yr while General Home Or Room Involvement In Fires leads the danger score at 71. They are not the same ranking.
- 1.6M/yr
- Floors Or Flooring Materials · injury volume #1 of 838
- 71
- General Home Or Room Involvement In Fires · danger score #1 of 838
- #155
- General Home Or Room Involvement In Fires injury-volume rank (14,776/yr)
- #2
- Floors Or Flooring Materials danger rank (score 59)
Every figure is rendered live from the CPSC NEISS 2005–2024 extract. Danger score combines injury volume, hospitalization, fatality, and five-year trend; ER volume is the average annual estimate alone.
Where the 838 scored categories sit
Product-category counts by NEISS group from the scored safety corpus. Segments sum to 838 - a catalog shape, not an ER-volume or danger ranking.
Where the injuries concentrate
Average annual emergency-room visits by product group, from the same NEISS group rollup as the category directory below (2005–2024).
Volume vs. severity: the same product, at product level
62 categories from the site's danger-score and injury-volume leader lists
Most Dangerous Products
View all rankings →Worsening Trends
Full rankings →Products with the largest increase in injuries over the past 5 years.
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Recent Recalls
The recalled infant walkers violate the mandatory standard for infant walkers because they can fit through a standard doorway and fail to stop at the edge of a step, posing a deadly fall hazard. In addition, the infant walkers have leg openings that allow the child to slip down until the child's head can become entrapped, posing a risk of serious injury or death.
The recalled dressers are unstable if they are not anchored to the wall, posing tip-over and entrapment hazards that can result in risks of serious injuries or death to children. The dressers violate the mandatory safety standard as required by the STURDY Act.
The spliced termination ends on the recalled ropes can fail unexpectedly, posing a risk of serious injury or death from fall hazard.
The recalled recreational off highway vehicle can maintain speed or accelerate when the accelerator pedal is released, posing a risk of serious injury or death from a crash hazard.
The recalled LED finger lights violate the mandatory safety standard for toys because they contain button cell batteries that can be easily accessed by children. If button cell or coin batteries are swallowed, the ingested batteries can cause serious injuries, including internal chemical burns, and death.
The recalled mattresses violate the mandatory safety standard for crib mattresses because the mattresses may not adequately fit certain play yards, posing a deadly entrapment hazard. Babies can suffocate in gaps between an undersized mattress, or extra padding, and side walls of a product, especially when the infant's face becomes trapped against the side and the mattress, preventing the infant from breathing. Furthermore, the full-sized crib mattresses violate the mandatory flammability standard for mattress sets, posing a risk of serious injury or death from fire.
Safety Guides
In-depth reads on injury volume, danger scores, and CPSC trends.
What to do with this data
9,944 recalls and 310.0M estimated injuries are tracked here, three concrete starting points, not a browse-everything list.
- General Home Or Room Involvement In Fires carries the highest tracked danger score (71/100) in this corpus, check its full profile before buying a similar product. General Home Or Room Involvement In Fires profile
- Building Materials & Home Structures accounts for the most estimated annual ER visits of any tracked category (4.3M/yr), browse every product PlainSafety tracks in it. Building Materials & Home Structures category
- Respiratory Protection Devices' reported injuries rose 2054% over the past 5 years, the steepest climb PlainSafety tracks, worth a second look if you already own one. Respiratory Protection Devices trend
NEISS estimates are drawn from a nationally representative hospital emergency-department sample (2005-2024), not a full census. Treat every figure as an estimate, not a count.
Explore the data
Jump straight into the rankings, the methodology, or the product directory. Every page is rendered from the underlying CPSC database, no AI summaries, no synthetic statistics.
20 most dangerous consumer products
Products ranked by the four-factor danger score (injury volume, hospitalization, fatality, five-year trend). That order is not the same as ER-visit volume.
DirectoryBrowse all 838 product categories
Searchable directory of every product category tracked in the CPSC NEISS injury database, organized by group and frequency of ER visits.
MethodologyHow we score and source the data
Full transparency on the four-factor danger score, the NEISS sampling design, and the upstream CPSC endpoints we mirror.
About this data
How PlainSafety works, and why you can trust these scores
What this site is
PlainSafety tracks consumer-product injury data across 838 product categories so you can compare injury volume and danger score, then read the matching CPSC recall history.
Editorial process
- Source. Ingest CPSC's National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS) emergency-room injury sample, SaferProducts.gov consumer-submitted incident reports, and CPSC recall announcements.
- Verify. Compute a four-factor danger score (injury volume, hospitalization rate, fatality rate, five-year trend) directly from the CPSC figures, without modifying or adjusting them.
- Publish. Link the three CPSC datasets by product category using published crosswalks, and recalculate scores with each annual NEISS update.
Editorial independence & corrections
The PlainSafety is independent and accepts no payment, sponsorship, or promoted placement from any manufacturer. Found an error or a stale score? File a correction via the contact page, and we respond within 72 hours and publish corrections with a visible revision note. See our methodology for full source attribution and refresh cadence.
Frequently asked
Where does PlainSafety get its product injury data?
Data comes from the CPSC's National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS), which tracks emergency room visits related to consumer products, plus SaferProducts.gov consumer reports and recall data.
How many product categories does PlainSafety cover?
PlainSafety tracks injury data across 838 product categories, covering about 310.0 million estimated NEISS emergency-room visits from 2005 to 2024, plus 65,993 historical SaferProducts.gov consumer reports and 9,944 CPSC recall announcements.
Is PlainSafety free?
Yes, PlainSafety is completely free. You can search product categories, view injury trends, and check recall history without any account or payment.
What is the NEISS database?
NEISS (National Electronic Injury Surveillance System) is a CPSC program that collects data from a probability sample of about 100 hospital emergency departments. The data is then used to estimate national injury totals for consumer product-related incidents.