Product category
Toys & Children's Recreation
This category tracks 43 consumer products in the CPSC NEISS injury database, together accounting for roughly 306,560 emergency-room visits a year - the 13th-highest of 26 tracked categories by ER volume.
- 43
- products tracked
- 306,560
- ER visits / year
- 32
- avg danger score
- 3.4%
- avg hospitalization rate
CPSC NEISS escalation ladder
Category extract NEISS/toys-and-children-s-recreation Toys & Children's Recreation
Toys & Children's Recreation · 43 scored · 306,560 ER/yr · avg 32/100
- NEISS 306,560
- NEISS 306,560
- NEISS 32
- NEISS 46
- NEISS 3.4%
- NEISS 0
- NEISS 43
- NEISS Lawn & Garden …
ER-volume peers
Photo peer: Lawn & Garden Equipment (311,508/yr)
Figures are rendered from the CPSC NEISS extract for Toys & Children's Recreation; nationally weighted ER projections, not exact counts. How we place categories →
Danger score versus ER volume
Danger score versus ER volume
According to CPSC NEISS, Kites Or Kite String leads this category's danger score at 46/100 (370/yr) while Skateboards, Unpowered Or Unspecified leads estimated ER volume at 110,890/yr (danger score 43/100). They are not the same ranking.
- 46/100
- Kites Or Kite String danger score #1 of 43
- 110,890/yr
- Skateboards, Unpowered Or Unspecified ER volume #1 of 43
- 370/yr
- Kites Or Kite String ER volume (not #1)
- 43/100
- Skateboards, Unpowered Or Unspecified danger score (not #1)
Ranks compare the 43 scored products in Toys & Children's Recreation from the same CPSC NEISS extract. Danger score is not ER-visit volume.
Toys & Children's Recreation 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)
306,560 13th of 26 higher than 13 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 Toys & Children's Recreation
Estimated average annual ER visits for the highest-volume products in this category.
The Toys & Children's Recreation safety profile
Average danger score across the 43 scored products, and how they split across the danger tiers.
Every product in Toys & Children's Recreation, by danger score
Compare beyond volume rank
Nationwide peers by summed ER volume & peak danger score
Two PlainSafety-derived comparison paths for Toys & Children's Recreation: other NEISS product categories nearest on summed estimated annual ER visits (306,560/yr) and highest member danger score (46/100). 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.