Baby Scales

What the CPSC Data Shows

Baby Scales (CPSC product code 1515, in the Nursery & Baby Products category) generate an estimated 46 emergency-room visits every year in the United States, adding up to roughly 323 ER-treated injuries across the 11-year span from 2006 to 2016. PlainSafety derives a danger score of 25/100 for this category (low risk), combining raw injury volume, demographic reach, severity of outcome, and multi-year trend. The five-year trajectory shows that injury counts are declining by about 100% over the last five years, with the busiest year on record being 2014 (105 estimated ER visits) and the quietest 2006 (5 estimated visits).

The single most common ER diagnosis for baby scales is internal injury to the head, accounting for approximately 111 visits across the 20-year NEISS window, followed by laceration to the mouth (90 cases). The 0-4 age group absorbs the largest share of injuries, about 242 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 23.9% of ER visits involving this product end in hospital admission or transfer.

Beyond the hospital-sampled NEISS projections, this page also aggregates 0 consumer incident reports filed directly on SaferProducts.gov, plus 10 anonymized ER narratives - together forming a layered picture of how baby scales 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 2016-12-31. For regulatory context, consult CPSC recall notices and the SaferProducts.gov public database linked below.