Footwear

What the CPSC Data Shows for Footwear

The Footwear category tracks 1 individual consumer products in the CPSC National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS), together accounting for roughly 1,166 emergency-room visits every year across the United States. The average PlainSafety danger score for items in this category is 29/100, calculated from 20 years of NEISS injury counts, hospitalization rates, severity of outcome, and multi-year trend. Of the 1 products tracked here, 0 fall into the high-risk tier (score 60+), 0 land in the moderate-risk band (40–59), and the remainder sit in the low-risk zone — a distribution that gives you a clear sense of how concentrated the hazards are within Footwear.

The single most dangerous product inside this category is School Equipment with a danger score of 29/100 and an estimated 1,166 ER visits per year. Five-year NEISS trends show 1 product is improving with double-digit decreases . Across the category, an average of 1.5% of ER visits end in hospital admission or transfer — a useful benchmark for comparing severity against other consumer-product categories.

All figures on this page come from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission's public NEISS dataset, which projects national injury estimates from a probability sample of roughly 100 hospital emergency departments nationwide. NEISS has tracked consumer-product injuries continuously since 1978; PlainSafety uses the 2005–2024 window for danger-score calculations, updates each category page when CPSC releases new yearly data, and complements NEISS projections with consumer incident reports voluntarily filed on SaferProducts.gov. The product table below is sorted by danger score by default so the highest-risk items in Footwear surface at the top, and each row links through to a full product page with age and sex breakdown, common ER diagnoses, severity dispositions, and anonymized ER narratives. Every number you see is tied back to an official CPSC source — no modeled or synthetic data is ever added.