Product category
Kitchen Small Appliances & Housewares
This category tracks 36 consumer products in the CPSC NEISS injury database, together accounting for roughly 125,180 emergency-room visits a year - the 18th-highest of 26 tracked categories by ER volume.
- 36
- products tracked
- 125,180
- ER visits / year
- 34
- avg danger score
- 9.6%
- avg hospitalization rate
CPSC NEISS escalation ladder
Category extract #18/33 Kitchen Small Appliances & Housewares
Kitchen Small Appliances & Housewa… · 36 scored · 125,180 ER/yr · avg 34/100
- RANK #18
- RANK 125,180
- RANK 34
- RANK 48
- RANK 9.6%
- RANK 0
- RANK 36
- RANK Transportation & Substances
ER-volume peers
Photo peer: Transportation & Substances (127,014/yr)
According to PlainSafety's CPSC NEISS corpus ranking, Kitchen Small Appliances & Housewares ranks #18 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, Heaters Or Heating Systems, Other Or Not Specified (largest of 2 at 42/100) leads this category's danger score at 42/100 (8,711/yr) while Pipes (excluding Smoking Pipes) leads estimated ER volume at 28,604/yr (danger score 40/100). They are not the same ranking.
- 42/100
- Heaters Or Heating Systems, Other Or Not Specified danger score #1 of 36
- 28,604/yr
- Pipes (excluding Smoking Pipes) ER volume #1 of 36
- 8,711/yr
- Heaters Or Heating Systems, Other Or Not Specified ER volume (not #1)
- 40/100
- Pipes (excluding Smoking Pipes) danger score (not #1)
Ranks compare the 36 scored products in Kitchen Small Appliances & Housewares from the same CPSC NEISS extract. Danger score is not ER-visit volume.
Kitchen Small Appliances & Housewares 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)
125,180 18th of 26 higher than 8 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 Small Appliances & Housewares
Estimated average annual ER visits for the highest-volume products in this category.
The Kitchen Small Appliances & Housewares safety profile
Average danger score across the 36 scored products, and how they split across the danger tiers.
Every product in Kitchen Small Appliances & Housewares, by danger score
20 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 Small Appliances & Housewares: other NEISS product categories nearest on summed estimated annual ER visits (125,180/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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