Product category
Laundry & Household Appliances
This category tracks 22 consumer products in the CPSC NEISS injury database, together accounting for roughly 60,432 emergency-room visits a year - the 20th-highest of 26 tracked categories by ER volume.
- 22
- products tracked
- 60,432
- ER visits / year
- 32
- avg danger score
- 7.0%
- avg hospitalization rate
CPSC NEISS escalation ladder
Category extract #20/33 Laundry & Household Appliances
Laundry & Household Appliances · 22 scored · 60,432 ER/yr · avg 32/100
- BAND #20
- RANK 60,432
- AVG 32
- HOSP 49
- MEM 7.0%
- NEISS 0
- BAND 22
- RANK Home Heating & Cooling Equipment
ER-volume peers
Photo peer: Home Heating & Cooling Equipment (14,211/yr)
According to PlainSafety's CPSC NEISS corpus ranking, Laundry & Household Appliances ranks #20 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, Propane, Lp Or Butane Gas Tanks Or Fittings leads this category's danger score at 49/100 (3,343/yr) while Vacuum Cleaners leads estimated ER volume at 18,819/yr (danger score 40/100). They are not the same ranking.
- 49/100
- Propane, Lp Or Butane Gas Tanks Or Fittings danger score #1 of 22
- 18,819/yr
- Vacuum Cleaners ER volume #1 of 22
- 3,343/yr
- Propane, Lp Or Butane Gas Tanks Or Fittings ER volume (not #1)
- 40/100
- Vacuum Cleaners danger score (not #1)
Ranks compare the 22 scored products in Laundry & Household Appliances from the same CPSC NEISS extract. Danger score is not ER-visit volume.
Laundry & Household 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)
60,432 20th of 26 higher than 6 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 Laundry & Household Appliances
Estimated average annual ER visits for the highest-volume products in this category.
The Laundry & Household Appliances safety profile
Average danger score across the 22 scored products, and how they split across the danger tiers.
Every product in Laundry & Household Appliances, by danger score
| Score | Product |
|---|---|
| 49 | Propane, Lp Or Butane Gas Tanks Or Fittings |
| 40 | Vacuum Cleaners |
| 38 | Electric Blankets Or Sheets small sample |
| 37 | Washing Machines, Other Or Not Specified |
| 37 | Clothes Dryers, Not Specified |
| 37 | Electric Heating Pads |
| 35 | Automatic Garage Doors Or Door Openers |
| 35 | Water Heaters, Not Specified |
| 35 | Sewing Machines Or Accessories |
| 34 | Automatic Doors Or Door Openers |
| 32 | Gas Water Heaters small sample |
| 30 | Rug Shampooers small sample |
| 29 | Drinking Fountains |
| 29 | Other Water Heaters small sample |
| 27 | Floor Buffers Or Waxers small sample |
| 27 | Electric Clothes Dryers Without Washers small sample |
| 27 | Wringer Washing Machines small sample |
| 25 | Incinerators small sample |
| 25 | Water Softeners Or Conditioners (appliances) small sample |
| 25 | Electric Water Heaters small sample |
| 25 | Electric Brooms small sample |
| 24 | Gas Clothes Dryers Without Washers small sample |
12 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 Laundry & Household Appliances: other NEISS product categories nearest on summed estimated annual ER visits (60,432/yr) and highest member danger score (49/100). 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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