How many products are tracked in Home Workshop Tools & Equipment?

PlainSafety tracks 62 scored products in the Home Workshop Tools & Equipment category, each with danger scores, injury trends, and ER visit estimates from CPSC NEISS data spanning 2005-2024.

Where does the Home Workshop Tools & Equipment 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

Home Workshop Tools & Equipment

Q: Which Home Workshop Tools & Equipment product leads danger score versus ER volume?

Gasoline leads this category's danger score at 47/100 while Soaps (excl. Laundry Soaps Or Detergents) leads estimated ER volume at 21,641 visits a year. Category average danger score is 34/100.

This category tracks 62 consumer products in the CPSC NEISS injury database, together accounting for roughly 168,777 emergency-room visits a year - the 14th-highest of 26 tracked categories by ER volume.

62
products tracked: 168,777
ER visits / year: 34
avg danger score: 7.9%
avg hospitalization rate

CPSC NEISS escalation ladder

Category extract #14/33 Home Workshop Tools & Equipment

Home Workshop Tools & Equipment · 62 scored · 168,777 ER/yr · avg 34/100

MEM #14
NEISS 168,777
BAND 34
RANK 47
AVG 7.9%
HOSP 0
MEM 62
NEISS Home Structures & Construction Materials

ER-volume peers

Photo peer: Home Structures & Construction Materials (155,337/yr)

Nearest product categories by summed estimated annual ER visits

According to PlainSafety's CPSC NEISS corpus ranking, Home Workshop Tools & Equipment ranks #14 of 33 tracked product categories by summed average annual ER visits. How we place categories →

Danger score versus ER volume

According to CPSC NEISS, Gasoline leads this category's danger score at 47/100 (12,683/yr) while Soaps (excl. Laundry Soaps Or Detergents) leads estimated ER volume at 21,641/yr (danger score 37/100). They are not the same ranking.

47/100
Gasoline danger score #1 of 62: 21,641/yr
Soaps (excl. Laundry Soaps Or Detergents) ER volume #1 of 62: 12,683/yr
Gasoline ER volume (not #1): 37/100
Soaps (excl. Laundry Soaps Or Detergents) danger score (not #1)

Ranks compare the 62 scored products in Home Workshop Tools & Equipment from the same CPSC NEISS extract. Danger score is not ER-visit volume.

Home Workshop Tools & 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)

168,777 14th of 26 higher than 12 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 Workshop Tools & Equipment

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

Top products in Home Workshop Tools & Equipment by annual ER visits

The Home Workshop Tools & Equipment safety profile

Average danger score across the 62 scored products, and how they split across the danger tiers.

Average danger score

High risk (60+): 0 Moderate (40–59): 9 Low (<40): 53

Every product in Home Workshop Tools & Equipment, by danger score

Score	Product	Injuries/yr	Trend	Hosp. %
47	Gasoline	12,683	-10%	22.3%
45	Methyl Alcohol (solvent) small sample	212	+73%	25.0%
43	Caustics small sample	143	+125%	19.8%
42	Lye small sample	287	+49%	21.8%
41	Gasoline Cans	1,671	-10%	19.2%
41	Paints, Varnishes Or Shellacs	15,133	-10%	9.4%
41	General Purpose Household Cleaners	14,660	+4%	6.7%
40	Lighter Fluids	2,012	-4%	16.1%
40	Chemicals, Not Elsewhere Classified	8,041	+31%	4.7%
39	Bleaches (noncosmetic)	19,510	-7%	4.3%
38	Fuel Storage Tanks	3,282	+1%	8.6%
38	Diesel Fuels small sample	500	+22%	16.0%
38	Drain Cleaners	2,002	+8%	10.2%
37	Soaps (excl. Laundry Soaps Or Detergents)	21,641	-20%	1.6%
37	Antifreeze	1,282	+12%	11.1%
37	Fuel Oils, Not Specified small sample	827	+9%	12.2%
37	Adhesives	7,964	+8%	1.9%
36	Wallpaper Cleaners (chemical) small sample	41	+1467%	16.7%
36	Automotive Chemicals	1,580	-12%	6.7%
36	Toilet Bowl Products	1,670	+19%	6.0%
36	Laundry Soaps Or Detergents	17,950	-23%	1.8%
36	Pine Oil Cleaning And Disinfectant Preparations	1,218	+26%	6.8%
36	Swimming Pool Chemicals	4,214	-12%	5.4%
35	Lamp Oils small sample	447	-72%	22.6%
35	Kerosene small sample	551	-41%	18.6%
35	Acids	1,338	-3%	7.7%
35	Paintbrushes Or Rollers, Manual	2,403	-5%	5.0%
34	Automotive Waxes, Polishes Or Cleaners small sample	691	-41%	9.7%
34	Detergents, Not Specified	2,115	+9%	1.6%
34	Room Deodorizers Or Fresheners, Not Specified small sample	717	-9%	3.8%
34	Fuels For Chafing Dishes Or Fondue Pots small sample	105	+86%	5.2%
34	Charcoal	1,330	-17%	8.0%
34	Lubricants	1,796	-19%	6.4%
34	Paint Thinners Or Varnish Thinners small sample	889	+2%	7.3%
33	Rust Removers small sample	112	-26%	19.9%
33	Dishwasher Detergents small sample	963	+6%	3.5%
33	Tapes (with Adhesive Surfaces)	2,225	-11%	2.6%
33	Floor Waxes small sample	707	-30%	11.4%
32	Liquid Room Deodorizers Or Fresheners	1,520	-30%	4.9%
32	Paint Or Varnish Removers, Paintbrush Cleaners small sample	560	-13%	7.8%
32	Abrasive Cleaners	1,016	-14%	5.4%
32	Oven Cleaners	1,151	-36%	7.1%
32	Ammonia, Household	1,827	-32%	5.5%
32	Caulking Or Spackling Compounds small sample	661	+6%	3.8%
31	Solid Room Deodorizers Or Fresheners	1,026	-27%	5.5%
31	Windshield Wiper Fluids small sample	212	-29%	12.6%
31	Fabric Treatment Products	2,222	-28%	1.5%
30	Solvents, Other Or Not Specified small sample	196	+11%	5.6%
30	School Laboratory Chemicals small sample	364	+4%	3.8%
30	Dishwashing Liquid	1,113	-19%	2.2%
29	Wallpaper Steamers small sample	60	+13%	12.5%
29	Polishes, Not Specified small sample	58	+214%	0.0%
29	Turpentine small sample	155	+16%	2.6%
29	Photographic Chemicals small sample	54	+280%	0.0%
29	Furniture Polishes Or Waxes small sample	317	-21%	5.5%
28	Dry Ice small sample	155	+1%	3.1%
27	Spot Removers Or Cleaning Fluids small sample	654	-45%	1.8%
26	Metal Polishes, Tarnish Removers Or Preventatives small sample	105	-28%	5.1%
24	Dyes (noncosmetic) small sample	187	-46%	2.4%
24	Shoe Polishes small sample	103	-32%	2.5%
23	Rust Preventatives small sample	86	+18%	0.0%
14	Other Polishes small sample	63	-100%	0.0%

32 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 Workshop Tools & Equipment: other NEISS product categories nearest on summed estimated annual ER visits (168,777/yr) and highest member danger score (47/100). 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

Gasoline · danger lead - score 47/100 inside Home Workshop Tools & Equipment.
Soaps (excl. Laundry Soaps Or Detergents) · ER-volume lead - 21,641 estimated visits/year.
Methyl Alcohol (solvent) · hospitalization lead - 25.0% of ER visits admitted.
Wallpaper Cleaners (chemical) · worsening 5-year trend - +1467% over five years.
Toys & Children's Recreation · volume peer above - #13 by summed ER volume vs this category’s #14.
Home Structures & Construction Materials · volume peer below - #15 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 Home Workshop Tools & Equipment 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