Product category
Communication & Electronics
This category tracks 1 consumer products in the CPSC NEISS injury database, together accounting for roughly 120 emergency-room visits a year - the 26th-highest of 26 tracked categories by ER volume.
- 1
- products tracked
- 120
- ER visits / year
- 24
- avg danger score
- 3.0%
- avg hospitalization rate
CPSC NEISS escalation ladder
Category extract #26/33 Communication & Electronics
Communication & Electronics · 1 scored · 120 ER/yr · avg 24/100
- AVG #26
- AVG 120
- AVG 24
- AVG 24
- AVG 3.0%
- AVG 0
- AVG 1
- AVG Pet Products &…
ER-volume peers
Photo peer: Pet Products & Supplies (247/yr)
According to PlainSafety's CPSC NEISS corpus ranking, Communication & Electronics ranks #26 of 33 tracked product categories by summed average annual ER visits. How we place categories →
Danger score versus ER volume
What the CPSC data shows
Support Garments And Stockings, Medical is the most dangerous product in Communication & Electronics, scoring 24/100 with about 120 ER visits a year.
- 0
- high-risk products (score 60+)
- 0
- moderate-risk (40–59)
- 120/yr
- Support Garments And Stockings, Medical (most ER visits)
- 0↑ / 0↓
- worsening / improving (5-yr)
All figures come from the CPSC NEISS dataset (2005–2024); products are sorted by danger score so the highest-risk items surface first.
Communication & Electronics 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)
120 26th of 26 the lowest of 26 categories
Product categories, banded by estimated average annual ER visits
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Source CPSC NEISS · 2026-08-31
Every product in Communication & Electronics, by danger score
| Score | Product |
|---|---|
| 24 | Support Garments And Stockings, Medical |
Compare beyond volume rank
Nationwide peers by summed ER volume & peak danger score
Two PlainSafety-derived comparison paths for Communication & Electronics: other NEISS product categories nearest on summed estimated annual ER visits (120/yr) and highest member danger score (24/100). 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.
Similar peak danger score
Nearest categories by the highest PlainSafety danger score among member products.
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.
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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.