Which Personal Care & Safety Products product leads danger score versus ER volume?

Massage Devices Or Vibrators leads this category's danger score at 52/100 while Footwear leads estimated ER volume at 194,476 visits a year. Category average danger score is 36/100.

How many products are tracked in Personal Care & Safety Products?

PlainSafety tracks 54 scored products in the Personal Care & Safety Products category, each with danger scores, injury trends, and ER visit estimates from CPSC NEISS data spanning 2005-2024.

Where does the Personal Care & Safety Products 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

Personal Care & Safety Products

This category tracks 54 consumer products in the CPSC NEISS injury database, together accounting for roughly 724,702 emergency-room visits a year - the 8th-highest of 26 tracked categories by ER volume.

54
products tracked: 724,702
ER visits / year: 36
avg danger score: 7.7%
avg hospitalization rate

CPSC NEISS escalation ladder

Category extract #8/33 Personal Care & Safety Products

Personal Care & Safety Products · 54 scored · 724,702 ER/yr · avg 36/100

MEM #8
MEM 724,702
MEM 36
MEM 52
MEM 7.7%
MEM 0
MEM 54
MEM Containers, Tableware & Packaging

ER-volume peers

Photo peer: Containers, Tableware & Packaging (728,438/yr)

Nearest product categories by summed estimated annual ER visits

According to PlainSafety's CPSC NEISS corpus ranking, Personal Care & Safety Products ranks #8 of 33 tracked product categories by summed average annual ER visits. How we place categories →

Danger score versus ER volume

According to CPSC NEISS, Massage Devices Or Vibrators leads this category's danger score at 52/100 (4,048/yr) while Footwear leads estimated ER volume at 194,476/yr (danger score 46/100). They are not the same ranking.

52/100
Massage Devices Or Vibrators danger score #1 of 54: 194,476/yr
Footwear ER volume #1 of 54: 4,048/yr
Massage Devices Or Vibrators ER volume (not #1): 46/100
Footwear danger score (not #1)

Ranks compare the 54 scored products in Personal Care & Safety Products from the same CPSC NEISS extract. Danger score is not ER-visit volume.

Personal Care & Safety Products 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)

724,702 8th of 26 higher than 18 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 Personal Care & Safety Products

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

Top products in Personal Care & Safety Products by annual ER visits

The Personal Care & Safety Products safety profile

Average danger score across the 54 scored products, and how they split across the danger tiers.

Average danger score

High risk (60+): 0 Moderate (40–59): 15 Low (<40): 39

Every product in Personal Care & Safety Products, by danger score

Score	Product	Injuries/yr	Trend	Hosp. %
52	Massage Devices Or Vibrators	4,048	+88%	23.7%
48	Day Wear	82,219	+8%	12.6%
46	Coins	34,037	-10%	16.4%
46	Footwear	194,476	-8%	7.6%
45	Fuel Multi-purpose Lighters, Incl. Micro-torches small sample	437	+35%	19.8%
45	Lighters, Not Specified	1,292	+58%	18.5%
45	Nightwear	5,708	+5%	19.8%
44	Clothing, Not Specified	28,969	-2%	11.9%
42	Clothing Accessories	19,771	-3%	8.2%
42	Jewelry	100,442	+4%	1.4%
41	Cigarette Or Pipe Lighters	2,345	-18%	18.1%
40	Multi-purpose Lighters, Not Specified small sample	126	+11%	27.6%
40	Grocery Or Shopping Carts, Unpowered	35,876	-22%	5.9%
40	Manicure, Pedicure, And Make-up Brushes/tools	19,237	+3%	4.5%
40	Outerwear	7,008	-4%	10.5%
39	Carts, Other Or Not Specified	8,551	+1%	6.9%
39	Luggage	17,447	-16%	6.1%
39	Respiratory Protection Devices small sample	852	+2054%	2.8%
39	Electric Shoe Polishers small sample	18	-	42.4%
38	Pens And Pencils	18,856	-19%	4.9%
38	Pins And Needles	10,898	-19%	6.9%
38	Razors Or Shavers, Not Specified	13,599	+5%	2.8%
38	Hair Grooming Equipment Or Accessories, N.s. small sample	567	+145%	2.7%
38	Nonelectric Razors Or Shavers	30,681	-23%	2.6%
38	Personal Protection Devices	3,526	+30%	4.6%
37	Desk Supplies	11,459	-13%	3.8%
37	Keys, Key Rings Or Key Chains	5,330	-3%	5.9%
36	Hair Curlers, Curling Irons, Clips & Hairpins	14,174	-27%	3.0%
36	Saunas small sample	958	+16%	9.5%
36	Eye Protection Devices	6,611	+9%	1.1%
36	Eyeglasses	14,073	-	4.3%
36	Hair Dryers	1,764	-34%	10.1%
35	Dollies, Handtrucks Or Luggage Carriers	4,542	-8%	3.5%
35	Other Clothing small sample	689	-1%	10.4%
35	Umbrellas	3,338	-9%	5.5%
35	Combs Or Hairbrushes, Unpowered	3,820	-15%	4.4%
35	Nonelectric Toothbrushes	3,715	-	8.2%
34	Sewing Basket Articles	2,999	-21%	5.7%
34	Combs, Not Specified small sample	759	+31%	3.0%
33	Watches	1,417	-5%	4.5%
32	Electric Razors Or Shavers small sample	469	+14%	5.0%
32	Electric Combs small sample	59	-	19.0%
32	Wigs, Falls Or Hairpieces small sample	521	+39%	0.9%
31	Hair Clippers And Trimmers	1,410	-16%	2.0%
31	Bath Or Facial Cleansing Brushes small sample	310	+32%	0.8%
31	Hearing Aids	2,230	-	2.0%
31	Ear Protection Devices	1,957	-22%	0.8%
29	Paper Cutters small sample	638	-13%	0.9%
27	Heat Or Infrared Lamps small sample	138	-5%	4.4%
23	Electric Multi-purpose Lighters small sample	94	-41%	7.1%
22	Powered Toothbrushes Or Oral Irrigators small sample	90	-	0.0%
20	Sun Lamps small sample	82	-	0.0%
19	Clothesbrushes small sample	20	-	0.0%
19	Lighted Make-up Mirrors small sample	50	-32%	0.0%

19 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 Personal Care & Safety Products: other NEISS product categories nearest on summed estimated annual ER visits (724,702/yr) and highest member danger score (52/100). 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

Massage Devices Or Vibrators · danger lead - score 52/100 inside Personal Care & Safety Products.
Footwear · ER-volume lead - 194,476 estimated visits/year.
Electric Shoe Polishers · hospitalization lead - 42.4% of ER visits admitted.
Respiratory Protection Devices · worsening 5-year trend - +2054% over five years.
Containers, Tableware & Packaging · volume peer above - #7 by summed ER volume vs this category’s #8.
Containers & Packaging · volume peer below - #9 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 Personal Care & Safety Products 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