Product category
Home Heating & Cooling Equipment
This category tracks 11 consumer products in the CPSC NEISS injury database, together accounting for roughly 14,211 emergency-room visits a year - the 21th-highest of 26 tracked categories by ER volume.
- 11
- products tracked
- 14,211
- ER visits / year
- 35
- avg danger score
- 11.1%
- avg hospitalization rate
CPSC NEISS escalation ladder
Category extract #21/33 Home Heating & Cooling Equipment
Home Heating & Cooling Equipment · 11 scored · 14,211 ER/yr · avg 35/100
- HIGH #21
- HIGH 14,211
- HIGH 35
- HIGH 48
- HIGH 11.1%
- HIGH 0
- HIGH 11
- HIGH Farm & Dairy Equipment
ER-volume peers
Photo peer: Farm & Dairy Equipment (9,442/yr)
According to PlainSafety's CPSC NEISS corpus ranking, Home Heating & Cooling Equipment ranks #21 of 33 tracked product categories by summed average annual ER visits. How we place categories →
Danger score versus ER volume
Danger score versus ER volume
According to CPSC NEISS, Fire Or Smoke Alarms leads this category's danger score at 40/100 (1,555/yr) while Carbon Monoxide Detectors leads estimated ER volume at 3,845/yr (danger score 33/100). They are not the same ranking.
- 40/100
- Fire Or Smoke Alarms danger score #1 of 11
- 3,845/yr
- Carbon Monoxide Detectors ER volume #1 of 11
- 1,555/yr
- Fire Or Smoke Alarms ER volume (not #1)
- 33/100
- Carbon Monoxide Detectors danger score (not #1)
Ranks compare the 11 scored products in Home Heating & Cooling Equipment from the same CPSC NEISS extract. Danger score is not ER-visit volume.
Home Heating & Cooling Equipment 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)
14,211 21st of 26 higher than 5 of 26 categories
Product categories, banded by estimated average annual ER visits
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Source CPSC NEISS · 2026-08-31
Where injuries concentrate in Home Heating & Cooling Equipment
Estimated average annual ER visits for the highest-volume products in this category.
The Home Heating & Cooling Equipment safety profile
Average danger score across the 11 scored products, and how they split across the danger tiers.
Every product in Home Heating & Cooling Equipment, by danger score
| Score | Product |
|---|---|
| 48 | Fire Escape Devices small sample |
| 44 | Electric Timers small sample |
| 40 | Fire Or Smoke Alarms |
| 34 | Safes |
| 33 | Carbon Monoxide Detectors |
| 33 | Padlocks, Chain Locks Or Other Locks |
| 33 | Burglar Alarms small sample |
| 33 | Fire Extinguishers |
| 31 | Fire Sprinklers small sample |
| 29 | Lightning Rods, Arresters Or Other Grounding Devices small sample |
| 26 | Combination Fire/smoke Alarm And Carbon Monoxide Detector small sample |
6 products are marked small sample: fewer than 1,000 estimated ER visits a year, so the danger score rests on few NEISS cases. They stay in this list but are left out of the national danger ranking.
Compare beyond volume rank
Nationwide peers by summed ER volume & peak danger score
Two PlainSafety-derived comparison paths for Home Heating & Cooling Equipment: other NEISS product categories nearest on summed estimated annual ER visits (14,211/yr) and highest member danger score (48/100). 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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