How dangerous are Personal Care & Safety Products products?

Products in the Personal Care & Safety Products category have an average danger score of 36 out of 100, with approximately 724,702 estimated ER visits per year according to CPSC NEISS data.

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

PlainSafety tracks 63 individual 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 63 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.

63
products tracked: 724,702
ER visits / year: 36
avg danger score: 7.7%
avg hospitalization rate

What the CPSC data shows

Massage Devices Or Vibrators is the most dangerous product in Personal Care & Safety Products, scoring 52/100 with about 4,048 ER visits a year.

0
high-risk products (score 60+): 15
moderate-risk (40–59): 194,476/yr
Footwear (most ER visits): 12↑ / 16↓
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.

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

What this means in Personal Care & Safety Products

Use the danger score to triage, then open a product page for the full age, body-part, and severity breakdown.

Pay closest attention to Massage Devices Or Vibrators - the highest-scoring product in this category. See the data
Compare this category against the full danger rankings to see where it sits nationally. All rankings
Cross-check specific models against open CPSC recalls before you buy or keep one. CPSC recalls

NEISS injury estimates are nationally weighted projections from a sample of ER visits, they show relative risk between products, not exact counts.

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.

Compiled by PlainSafety Editorial, Consumer Product Safety Editorial Team · May 15, 2026