Which Building Materials & Home Structures product leads danger score versus ER volume?

General Home Or Room Involvement In Fires leads this category's danger score at 71/100 while Floors Or Flooring Materials leads estimated ER volume at 1.6M visits a year. Category average danger score is 40/100.

How many products are tracked in Building Materials & Home Structures?

PlainSafety tracks 42 scored products in the Building Materials & Home Structures category, each with danger scores, injury trends, and ER visit estimates from CPSC NEISS data spanning 2005-2024.

Where does the Building Materials & Home Structures safety data come from?

All data comes from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) NEISS database, which projects national injury estimates from a probability sample of approximately 100 hospital emergency departments.

Product category

Building Materials & Home Structures

This category tracks 42 consumer products in the CPSC NEISS injury database, together accounting for roughly 4.3M emergency-room visits a year - the single highest-volume of 26 tracked product categories.

42
products tracked: 4.3M
ER visits / year: 40
avg danger score: 8.7%
avg hospitalization rate

CPSC NEISS escalation ladder

Category extract #1/33 Building Materials & Home Structures

Building Materials & Home Structures · 42 scored · 4.3M ER/yr · avg 40/100

AVG #1
AVG 4.3M
AVG 40
AVG 71
AVG 8.7%
AVG 1
AVG 42
AVG Floors, Walls …

ER-volume peers

Photo peer: Floors, Walls & Ceilings (2.0M/yr)

Nearest product categories by summed estimated annual ER visits

According to PlainSafety's CPSC NEISS corpus ranking, Building Materials & Home Structures ranks #1 of 33 tracked product categories by summed average annual ER visits. How we place categories →

Danger score versus ER volume

According to CPSC NEISS, General Home Or Room Involvement In Fires leads this category's danger score at 71/100 (14,776/yr) while Floors Or Flooring Materials leads estimated ER volume at 1.6M/yr (danger score 59/100). They are not the same ranking.

71/100
General Home Or Room Involvement In Fires danger score #1 of 42: 1.6M/yr
Floors Or Flooring Materials ER volume #1 of 42: 14,776/yr
General Home Or Room Involvement In Fires ER volume (not #1): 59/100
Floors Or Flooring Materials danger score (not #1)

Ranks compare the 42 scored products in Building Materials & Home Structures from the same CPSC NEISS extract. Danger score is not ER-visit volume.

Building Materials & Home Structures vs all categories by estimated annual ER visits

Where this category's summed average annual ER volume sits among every tracked product category (exposure rank, not a danger score)

4,311,255 1st of 26 the highest of 26 categories

Product categories, banded by estimated average annual ER visits

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more categories. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source CPSC NEISS · 2026-08-31

Where injuries concentrate in Building Materials & Home Structures

Estimated average annual ER visits for the highest-volume products in this category.

Top products in Building Materials & Home Structures by annual ER visits

The Building Materials & Home Structures safety profile

Average danger score across the 42 scored products, and how they split across the danger tiers.

Average danger score

High risk (60+): 1 Moderate (40–59): 24 Low (<40): 17

Every product in Building Materials & Home Structures, by danger score

Score	Product	Injuries/yr	Trend	Hosp. %
71	General Home Or Room Involvement In Fires	14,776	+23%	25.1%
59	Floors Or Flooring Materials	1.6M	-6%	21.7%
51	Stairs Or Steps	1.2M	-14%	9.3%
47	Porches, Balconies, Open-side Floors Or Floor Openings	143,200	-17%	10.8%
46	Ceilings And Walls (interior Part Of Completed Structure)	348,591	-13%	6.5%
46	Scaffolding	5,034	+18%	17.6%
45	Doors, Other Or Not Specified	287,631	-19%	5.1%
45	Counters Or Countertops	60,665	+7%	8.4%
44	Tree Stands (hunting)	5,124	-20%	22.2%
44	Windows And Window Glass, Other Than Storm Windows	102,381	-20%	8.2%
44	Fences Or Fence Posts	110,339	-9%	6.7%
43	Elevators Or Other Lifts (excl. Escalators, Hoists, Jacks,	11,624	-7%	12.6%
43	Door Sills Or Frames	63,213	-7%	7.2%
43	Ramps Or Landings	18,806	+5%	10.2%
42	Moving Walks	184	+130%	10.4%
42	Window Or Door Security Barriers	430	+36%	11.1%
42	House Repair Or Construction Materials,nec	32,060	+5%	4.8%
42	Handrails, Railings Or Banisters	49,934	-14%	7.2%
41	Poles	44,822	-6%	4.0%
41	Window Screens	1,309	-19%	18.2%
41	Cabinet Or Door Hardware	21,313	+1%	5.8%
41	Nails, Screws, Carpet Tacks Or Thumbtacks	119,861	-27%	3.2%
40	Tool Sheds Or Greenhouse Structures	7,849	-6%	8.3%
40	Artificial Turf	1,041	+84%	6.6%
40	Gutters, Drainpipes, Downspouts Or Run-off Pipes	8,087	-28%	12.4%
39	Glass Doors Or Doors With Glass Panels	27,357	-26%	4.8%
39	Escalators	11,285	-13%	8.0%
38	Carbon Monoxide Poisoning (when Source Is Unknown	7,498	-32%	7.7%
38	Garage Doors (excl. Automatic Garage Doors Or Openers)	15,362	-18%	4.5%
38	Window Sills Or Frames	17,053	-9%	3.2%
37	Gas Fumes Or Gas Vapors Of Unknown Origin	1,934	-9%	8.9%
36	Outdoor Awnings Or Shutters	3,079	-29%	9.8%
34	Mobile Homes	3,224	-100%	13.5%
33	Clotheslines Or Clothes Drying Racks	1,695	-38%	8.9%
33	Thermal Or Sound Insulation Materials	2,417	-12%	2.7%
32	Wood Paneling And Particleboard	1,621	-1%	1.6%
32	Cisterns, Cesspools Or Septic Tanks	494	-13%	7.4%
30	Pull-down Or Folding Stairs	1,158	-54%	7.1%
29	Wallpaper	570	-28%	4.7%
29	Storm Windows	1,151	-39%	2.1%
27	Plastic Products, Not Elsewhere Classified	2,399	-	3.3%
27	Plastic Panels For Doors Or Windows	102	+12%	2.5%

Compare beyond volume rank

Nationwide peers by summed ER volume & peak danger score

Two PlainSafety-derived comparison paths for Building Materials & Home Structures: other NEISS product categories nearest on summed estimated annual ER visits (4.3M/yr) and highest member danger score (71/100). Volume rank above/below stays on the adjacent-category ladder.

Similar summed ER volume

Nearest categories by total estimated annual ER visits across all member products.

4 peers

Similar peak danger score

Nearest categories by the highest PlainSafety danger score among member products.

4 peers

Read with this category

General Home Or Room Involvement In Fires · danger lead - score 71/100 inside Building Materials & Home Structures.
Floors Or Flooring Materials · ER-volume lead - 1.6M estimated visits/year.
Moving Walks · worsening 5-year trend - +130% over five years.
Floors, Walls & Ceilings · volume peer below - #2 by summed ER volume.
Most dangerous products ranking - national danger-score list with NEISS disposition cascade.
Most dangerous household products guide - editorial framing for how Building Materials & Home Structures sits in the household injury picture.

Source: U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS), 2005–2024.

Source: CPSC SaferProducts.gov consumer incident reports and CPSC recall announcements.

Disclaimer: This information is provided for general informational purposes only and does not constitute professional, medical, or safety advice. Data is sourced from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC); PlainSafety is an independent project and is not affiliated with the CPSC. Consult a qualified professional before making decisions based on this data.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, scored, and verified.

PlainSafety is rendered directly from U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission recall and incident records, no number is typed in by an editor. Category risk tallies count CPSC recalls and related product records in this category. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.

Compiled by PlainSafety, Consumer Product Safety Editorial Process · August 31, 2026