Product category
Sports & Recreation Equipment
This category tracks 46 consumer products in the CPSC NEISS injury database, together accounting for roughly 1.8M emergency-room visits a year - the 3rd-highest of 26 tracked categories by ER volume.
- 46
- products tracked
- 1.8M
- ER visits / year
- 37
- avg danger score
- 5.2%
- avg hospitalization rate
CPSC NEISS escalation ladder
Category extract #3/33 Sports & Recreation Equipment
Sports & Recreation Equipment · 46 scored · 1.8M ER/yr · avg 37/100
- DISP #3
- DISP 1.8M
- DISP 37
- DISP 49
- DISP 5.2%
- DISP 0
- DISP 46
- DISP Floors, Walls …
ER-volume peers
Photo peer: Floors, Walls & Ceilings (2.0M/yr)
According to PlainSafety's CPSC NEISS corpus ranking, Sports & Recreation Equipment ranks #3 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, Golf (activity, Apparel Or Equipment) leads this category's danger score at 49/100 (36,909/yr) while Basketball, Activity And Related Equipment leads estimated ER volume at 450,967/yr (danger score 43/100). They are not the same ranking.
- 49/100
- Golf (activity, Apparel Or Equipment) danger score #1 of 46
- 450,967/yr
- Basketball, Activity And Related Equipment ER volume #1 of 46
- 36,909/yr
- Golf (activity, Apparel Or Equipment) ER volume (not #1)
- 43/100
- Basketball, Activity And Related Equipment danger score (not #1)
Ranks compare the 46 scored products in Sports & Recreation Equipment from the same CPSC NEISS extract. Danger score is not ER-visit volume.
Sports & Recreation Equipment 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)
1,846,077 3rd of 26 higher than 23 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 Sports & Recreation Equipment
Estimated average annual ER visits for the highest-volume products in this category.
The Sports & Recreation Equipment safety profile
Average danger score across the 46 scored products, and how they split across the danger tiers.
Every product in Sports & Recreation Equipment, by danger score
Compare beyond volume rank
Nationwide peers by summed ER volume & peak danger score
Two PlainSafety-derived comparison paths for Sports & Recreation Equipment: other NEISS product categories nearest on summed estimated annual ER visits (1.8M/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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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.