Product category
Kitchen Cooking Appliances
This category tracks 39 consumer products in the CPSC NEISS injury database, together accounting for roughly 135,000 emergency-room visits a year - the 16th-highest of 26 tracked categories by ER volume.
- 39
- products tracked
- 135,000
- ER visits / year
- 32
- avg danger score
- 5.1%
- avg hospitalization rate
CPSC NEISS escalation ladder
Category extract #16/33 Kitchen Cooking Appliances
Kitchen Cooking Appliances · 39 scored · 135,000 ER/yr · avg 32/100
- MEM #16
- MEM 135,000
- MEM 32
- MEM 43
- MEM 5.1%
- MEM 0
- MEM 39
- MEM Transportation & Substances
ER-volume peers
Photo peer: Transportation & Substances (127,014/yr)
According to PlainSafety's CPSC NEISS corpus ranking, Kitchen Cooking Appliances ranks #16 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
Refrigerators is the most dangerous product in Kitchen Cooking Appliances, scoring 43/100 with about 40,695 ER visits a year.
- 0
- high-risk products (score 60+)
- 4
- moderate-risk (40–59)
- 40,695/yr
- Refrigerators (most ER visits)
- 12↑ / 14↓
- 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.
Kitchen Cooking Appliances 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)
135,000 16th of 26 higher than 10 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 Kitchen Cooking Appliances
Estimated average annual ER visits for the highest-volume products in this category.
The Kitchen Cooking Appliances safety profile
Average danger score across the 39 scored products, and how they split across the danger tiers.
Every product in Kitchen Cooking Appliances, by danger score
28 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 Kitchen Cooking Appliances: other NEISS product categories nearest on summed estimated annual ER visits (135,000/yr) and highest member danger score (43/100). 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.
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.
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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.