CPSC NEISS · code 821

Automotive Tools Or Accessories

Automotive Tools Or Accessories: danger rank #526 of 838 is not ER-volume rank #370 of 838 (2,711 estimated ER visits a year; declining by about 33% over the last five years).

Home Communication & Entertainment CPSC NEISS through 2024

Danger score versus ER volume

Danger score versus ER volume

According to CPSC NEISS 2005-2024, Automotive Tools Or Accessories ranks #526 of 838 by danger score (33/100) at ER-volume #370 of 838 (2,711/yr). They are not the same ranking.

#526
danger rank of 838
#370
ER-volume rank of 838
33/100
danger score
2,711/yr
estimated ER visits (avg)

Danger score combines injury volume, hospitalization, fatality, and five-year trend. ER volume is the average annual NEISS estimate alone. Rank 1 is highest on each list.

Where this category's danger score sits nationally

Danger score (33/100) across 838 scored CPSC product categories

33 Lower than most lower than 63% of 838 product categories

scored CPSC product categories, bucketed by value

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more product categories. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source CPSC NEISS, PlainSafety danger-score model · 2024

Composite verdict

Composite Safety Score: 47/100

One verdict blending 4 independently-sourced dimensions from two separate CPSC systems, each benchmarked against all 838 scored product categories by percentile rather than raw value, so no single huge-volume category can dominate the scale.

C
Dimension Value National percentile Weight applied Source
Injury severity (hospitalization + fatality blend) 4 38th 35% CPSC NEISS 20-year severity index
Annual ER injury volume 2,711 52nd 30% CPSC NEISS estimated annual ER-treated injuries
5-year injury trend -33% 19th 15% CPSC NEISS 5-year % change in ER-treated injuries
Consumer incident reports 51 75th 20% CPSC SaferProducts.gov public incident report count

Methodology: each dimension is ranked against the full population's p10/p25/p50/p75/p90 breakpoints and interpolated to a 0-100 percentile; the composite is the weighted average of available percentiles. See methodology for the full benchmark table.

Where 54,216 estimated ER injuries land on the body

Body-part shares from the same CPSC NEISS injury_types extract for product code 821. Segments sum to 54,216 - a body-map mix, not a danger score or ER-volume rank.

Two danger lenses

Same-group peer scores and this product's dial

The bars compare PlainSafety danger scores inside the Home Communication & Entertainment group (same CPSC NEISS extract). The dial is this product's score alone on the Low/Moderate/High bands. Do not read a peer bar as an ER-visit count.

Home Communication & Entertainment danger scores

1. Tools, Not Specified44/1002. Batteries43/1003. Bench Or Table Saws43/1004. Torches, Not Specified42/1005. Battery Chargers/adapters41/1006. Power Saws, Other Or Not …40/1007. Rope Or String40/1008. Automotive Tools Or Acces…33/100
Higher score = higher composite danger in this group. Peer set is other scored products sharing the same CPSC group.
0/100100/10033/100
PlainSafety danger score · Automotive Tools Or Accessories

Source: CPSC NEISS danger-score model As of 2024

How this 33/100 score is built

The score is computed from four CPSC-derived factors for automotive tools or accessories - no opinion, no editorializing:

  • Injury volume 2,711 ER visits/yr Above median volume
  • Severity (hospitalization rate) 3.9% Below median admission rate
  • Fatality rate 0.05% Above-typical fatality rate
  • 5-year trend-33%

Band labels compare this category against the corpus of 838 scored CPSC product categories, see the full methodology for the exact weighting of each factor.

What the CPSC Data Shows

Across the 20-year NEISS window from 2005 to 2024, injury counts for automotive tools or accessories are declining by about 33% over the last five years, with the busiest year on record being 2016 (3,812 estimated ER visits) and the quietest 2005 (1,146 estimated visits). The single most common ER diagnosis is laceration to the face, accounting for approximately 4,019 visits across the 20-year NEISS window, followed by laceration to the finger (3,227 cases). The 35-44 age group absorbs the largest share of injuries, about 11,305 cases over the NEISS window, and males appear slightly more often than the opposite sex in that cohort. Severity outcomes from the NEISS disposition field show that 3.9% of ER visits involving this product end in hospital admission or transfer, and a small fraction (0.05%) result in fatality.

Beyond the hospital-sampled NEISS projections, this page also aggregates 51 consumer incident reports filed directly on SaferProducts.gov, plus 20 anonymized ER narratives - together forming a layered picture of how automotive tools or accessories fail in real households. Every figure on this page comes from CPSC-published data: NEISS projects national estimates from a probability sample of about 100 U.S. hospital emergency departments, while SaferProducts.gov collects voluntary reports from consumers, manufacturers, and clinicians. The danger score, trend indicators, and demographic breakdowns update automatically when CPSC releases a new yearly NEISS file, which is why this page is dated 2024-12-31. For regulatory context, consult CPSC recall notices and the SaferProducts.gov public database linked below.

Annual Injury Estimates (2005–2024)

1K2K3K4K 20052008201120142017202020232024 3K
Estimated annual emergency-room visits for Automotive Tools Or Accessories, CPSC NEISS

Source: CPSC NEISS national injury estimates As of 2024

Source: CPSC NEISS national estimates Injuries represent ER-treated cases only

Who Gets Injured?

Age Group Male Female Total
0-4 1,193 456 1,649
5-14 1,360 652 2,012
15-24 7,287 1,564 8,851
25-34 9,469 1,691 11,160
35-44 9,439 1,866 11,305
45-54 6,585 1,002 7,587
55-64 4,372 1,311 5,683
65-74 4,016 477 4,493
75+ 1,194 291 1,485

Most Common Injuries

Body Part Diagnosis Est. Injuries
Face Laceration 4,019
Finger Laceration 3,227
Hand Laceration 2,106
Head Internal Injury 1,807
Hand Contusions, Abr. 1,611
Mouth Laceration 1,388
Finger Contusions, Abr. 1,375
Finger Fracture 1,358
Foot Contusions, Abr. 1,322
Lower Trunk Strain, Sprain 1,294
Upper Trunk Fracture 1,167
Head Laceration 1,138
Lower Leg Laceration 1,036
Face Contusions, Abr. 974
Upper Trunk Contusions, Abr. 927

Severity Breakdown

Treated/examined And Released 95.3% (51,651)
Treated And Admitted/hospitalized 2.6% (1,387)
Treated And Transferred 1.2% (677)
Left Without Being Seen 0.7% (390)
Held For Observation 0.2% (92)
Fatality Incl. Doa, Died In Er 0.0% (19)

ER Visit Narratives

Real anonymized emergency room reports from the CPSC NEISS database.

Age 58 · Male · Lower Leg · Laceration · 2024

58 YOM-AT HOME-DROPPED AN AXLE SHAFT ON HIS SHIN DX: LOWER LEG LACERATION

Age 44 · Male · Shoulder · Other · 2024

44YOM FOR EVAL OF L SHOULD INJURY SUSTAINED WHWEN HE WAS PULLING UP ON TIRE IRON TO LOOSEN LUG NUTS & FELT IMMEDIATE PAIN & POP POSTEROLATERAL SHOULDER. NOW FEELS LIKE SHOULDER IN UNSTABLE & ROM LIMITED. DX: INJURY OF LEFT SHOULDER

Age 39 · Male · Face · Laceration · 2024

39YOM PRESENTS TOE D FOR NOSE PAIN. PT WAS CHANGING TIRE W/ BRAND-NEW TIRE IRON. IRON SLIPPED AND LANDED ON NOSE. BLEEDING AT HIS NOSE BUT NO BLEEDING FROM NARES AFTER. DX: LACERATION NOSE

Age 71 · Male · Head · Internal Injury · 2024

71YOM PRESENTS FOR EVAL OF HEAD INJURY. AT ABOUT 1PM HE ACCIDENTALLY STRUCK HIMSELF IN THE FACE WITH A BREAKER BAR WHIL ATTEMPTING TO LOOSEN A RUSTY BOLT. SUSTAINED LACERATION ABOVE L EYEBROW. NO LOC. DX: SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; FOREHEAD LACERATION

Age 13 · Female · Foot · Contusions, Abr. · 2024

13 YOF HAD A CAR RAMP FALL ON RIGHT FOOT.DX: CONTUSION RIGHT FOOT.

Age 41 · Female · Knee · Other · 2024

41YOF COMPLAINS OF RIGHT KNEE PAIN X 1 MONTH AFTER WALKING UP AND DOWN A MOVING TRUCK RAMP. HISTORY OF ANKLE SURGERY LAST AUGUST. DX: ARTHRALGIA OF RIGHT KNEE, OVERUSE SYNDROME

Age 34 · Male · Finger · Burns, Thermal · 2024

34YOM, USING JUMPER CABLES GRAB ENDS BURNED RIGHT HAND 2ND FINGER DX: RIGHT HAND 2ND FINGER 2ND DEGREE BURN

Age 75 · Male · Lower Trunk · Dislocation · 2024

^75YOM WAS WORKING ON HIS CAR AND HAS LEFT HIP PROTHESIS WHEN HE BENT DOWN TO GET A TOOL IT POPPED OUT OF PLACE DX:DISLOCATION HIP PROTHESIS

Age 67 · Male · Upper Trunk · Fracture · 2024

^67YOM PATIENT WAS TRYING TO MANEUVER A FOUR WHEELER ON A RAMP TO THE BACK OF A PICKUP TRUCK, THE FOUR WHEELER APPARENTLY STARTED MOVING BACKWARDS AND HAD HIM FALL TO THE GROUND, CHEST WALL PAIN DX: CLOSED FRACTURE OF MULTIPLE RIBS OF RIGHT SIDE, CHEST WALL PAIN, ACUTE PAIN OF RIGHT SHOULDER

Age 76 · Female · Upper Trunk · Fracture · 2024

76YOF C/O CLOSED FRACTURE OR 11TH THORACIC VERTEBRA WITH ABRASIONS ON SHINS S/P PT WAS ON A RAMP ATTACHED TO A DELIVERY *** TRUCK WHEN SHE DROPPED TO HER SHINGS THEN FELL BACKWARDS. DX: CLOSED FRACTURE OR 11TH THORACIC VERTEBRA; ABRASIONS OF LOWER BILATERAL LEGS

Age 24 · Male · Finger · Fracture · 2024

24 YOM WAS AT HOME WORKING ON A CAR JACKED UP WHEN THE CAR FELL OFF THE JACK ONTO HIS FINGERS. DX: FRACTURE RIGHT INDEX FINGER, CONTUSION RIGHT MIDDLE FINGER, CONTUSION RIGHT RING FINGER, LACERATION RIGHT INDEX FINGER

Age 69 · Male · Ankle · Fracture · 2024

^69YOM PT TRIPPED OVER A TRUCK RAMP & TWISTED ANKLE, FELL ONTO LEFT SHOULDER DX: FALL, RT ANKLE FRACTURE

Consumer Incident Reports

Reports filed by consumers on SaferProducts.gov.

9/30/2024 · Incident, No Injury · Whistler Group, Inc. · Missouri

A resident had a Whistler Jump and Go jump pack plugged in, in his kitchen which caught fire. Product number WJS-3000. He was able to extinguish the fire with his kitchen sink hose.

9/26/2015 · Incident, No Injury · Jackco Transnational, Inc. · Virginia

Was trying to jump start a car and the battery got hot swelled and the case came apart, making the item not usable.

9/24/2012 · Incident, No Injury · Harbor Freight Tools · West Virginia

The caller stated that while driving he smelled smoke, he pulled off the road and noticed that the fire smoke was coming from where the jump start equipment was located. At this time, the jump start equipment had already burnt a hole into the rear seat. The flames dispersed towards the driver's seat. However, he was unable to contain the fire. He did not have any water or extinguisher. The jump start equipment was in the vehicle for over 6 weeks. He was able to ask someone to contact the fire dept but by the time they arrived the vehicle was consumed in flames. There is a fire report. The manufacturer was not contacted because the equpment was made in China. The caller feels that this jump start equipment is a fire hazard and should be reported.

9/19/2014 · Incident, No Injury · AutoZone, Inc. · Tennessee

Caller stated that she experienced similar problems of Release #08-134. Hazard: The booster cables clamps were assembled incorrectly resulting in reverse polarity. This poses an electrical shock and explosion hazard to consumers. The cables was plugged in for a few seconds and it started smoking and melting. A hand towel had to be used to pull the cables off because of the heat. (6/20/14)Caller attempted to contact the manufacturer but the contact number is no longer in service. Caller feels that the manufacturer is still selling these defective cables that should be recalled.

9/18/2016 · Unspecified · Whistler Group, Inc. · California

Purchased Whistler "Jump & Go" from Blizzard, LLC. on Amazon.com on 9/1/2016. After receiving the product, I plugged it in to charge. The device immediately started beeping non-stop; indicating a product malfunction. When doing researching trouble shooting advice online, I discovered the open recall on this product (15-123) posted here, and confirmed this device is impacted by the recall. The model number is WJS-3000 and the manufacture date imprinted is "201436" which is clearly within the range indicated in the recall notice (201404 to 201439). I have requested a refund and return authorization from Amazon.com.

9/16/2016 · Incident, No Injury · Jackco Transnational, Inc. · Pennsylvania

I have a pocket jump starter approx. 2 years old used less than 5 times that the battery swelled up and busted the case while charging . I was home and removed from outlet before further damage from being done

9/13/2016 · Incident, No Injury · Jackco Transnational, Inc. · Pennsylvania

I was charging pocket jump starter model ZT50400after less than 5 minutes on charge it literally swelled up and busted apart and was smoking and very warm. I received this as a gift and approx. 2 years ago and this was the first time using it and charging it. Also I have spoken to several people that have the same model purchased thru snap-on tools and they have had the same problem

9/10/2017 · Incident, No Injury · Whistler Group, Inc. · Alabama

The battery in my jump and go has begun to swell and heat up.

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Product Recalls

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Nationwide peers by danger score, ER volume & hospitalization

Three PlainSafety-derived comparison paths for Automotive Tools Or Accessories: cross-group products nearest on danger score (33/100), estimated annual ER visits (2,711/yr), and hospitalization share (3.9%). Same-group neighbours stay in Related Products above.

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About this data

CPSC National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS) 2005–2024 and SaferProducts.gov consumer incident reports form the basis of this page. Injury estimates are based on a nationally representative probability sample of U.S. hospital emergency departments.

According to PlainSafety's CPSC NEISS corpus ranking, Automotive Tools Or Accessories ranks #526 of 838 scored CPSC product categories by PlainSafety danger score and #370 of 838 by 20-year estimated ER injury volume.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where does automotive tools or accessories rank on danger score versus ER volume?

Among 838 scored CPSC product categories, automotive tools or accessories ranks #526 by PlainSafety danger score (33/100) and #370 by 20-year estimated ER injury volume (2,711/yr). The two rankings come from the same NEISS extract and are not the same order.

What are the most common injuries from automotive tools or accessories?

The most common injury is laceration to the face, accounting for approximately 4,019 injuries over 20 years.

Are injuries from automotive tools or accessories increasing or decreasing?

Down 33% over 5 years.

Who is most at risk for automotive tools or accessories injuries?

The 35-44 age group accounts for the most injuries, with approximately 11,305 cases recorded over 20 years. Males are more frequently injured in this age group.

What happens when someone is injured by automotive tools or accessories?

Of all ER visits involving automotive tools or accessories, approximately 3.9% result in hospital admission. The majority of patients (96.1%) are treated and released from the emergency department.

How can I report a safety problem with automotive tools or accessories?

You can file a consumer incident report at SaferProducts.gov, the official CPSC reporting portal. Reports help the CPSC identify emerging hazards and trigger investigations or recalls. You can also call the CPSC hotline at 1-800-638-2772.

Data on Automotive Tools Or Accessories is compiled directly from CPSC NEISS and SaferProducts.gov records, current through 2024. See our methodology for details.

Disclaimer: This page is for informational purposes only and is not affiliated with the CPSC.

PlainSafety is rendered directly from U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission recall and incident records, no number is typed in by an editor. Product recall timelines and hazard labels are drawn from CPSC recall records for this product. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.