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CPSC NEISS Data 2005–2024

Books, Magazines, Albums Or Scrapbooks

Twenty years of CPSC NEISS emergency-room records for this consumer product category, combined with demographic breakdowns, multi-year injury trends, and matching recall notices.

Floors, Walls & Ceilings · CPSC Code 4047

Down 30% over 5 years

The verdict

Books, Magazines, Albums Or Scrapbooks carry a danger score of 37/100 (low risk), driven by roughly 10,017 ER-treated injuries a year that are declining by about 30% over the last five years.

37/100
danger score (low risk)
10,017
ER visits per year (avg)
6.7%
end in hospital admission
5-14
most-injured age group

Every figure is rendered from the CPSC NEISS record for product code 4047 - last data year 2024.

PlainSafety danger score

0/100100/10037/100
PlainSafety danger score

Source: CPSC NEISS danger-score model As of 2024

How this 37/100 score is built

The score is computed from four CPSC-derived factors for books, magazines, albums or scrapbooks - no opinion, no editorializing:

  • Injury volume10,017 ER visits/yr
  • Severity (hospitalization rate)6.7%
  • Fatality rate0.00%
  • 5-year trend-30%

See the full methodology for the exact weighting of each factor.

What the CPSC Data Shows

Books, Magazines, Albums Or Scrapbooks (CPSC product code 4047, in the Floors, Walls & Ceilings category) generate an estimated 10,017 emergency-room visits every year in the United States, adding up to roughly 200,343 ER-treated injuries across the 20-year span from 2005 to 2024. PlainSafety derives a danger score of 37/100 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 30% over the last five years, with the busiest year on record being 2010 (13,560 estimated ER visits) and the quietest 2021 (6,474 estimated visits).

The single most common ER diagnosis for books, magazines, albums or scrapbooks is internal injury to the head, accounting for approximately 13,370 visits across the 20-year NEISS window, followed by contusions, abr. to the eyeball (13,357 cases). The 5-14 age group absorbs the largest share of injuries, about 45,401 cases over the NEISS window, and females appear slightly more often than the opposite sex in that cohort. Severity outcomes from the NEISS disposition field show that 6.7% of ER visits involving this product end in hospital admission or transfer.

Beyond the hospital-sampled NEISS projections, this page also aggregates 44 consumer incident reports filed directly on SaferProducts.gov, plus 20 anonymized ER narratives - together forming a layered picture of how books, magazines, albums or scrapbooks 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.

10,017
Injuries / Year
6.7%
Hospitalization Rate
0.00%
Fatality Rate

Annual Injury Estimates (2005–2024)

6K8K10K12K14K 20052008201120142017202020232024 8K
Estimated annual emergency-room visits for Books, Magazines, Albums Or Scrapbooks, CPSC NEISS

Source: CPSC NEISS national injury estimates As of 2024

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

Who Gets Injured?

Age Group Male Female Total
0-4 12,187 11,737 23,924
5-14 22,372 23,029 45,401
15-24 6,006 14,643 20,655
25-34 5,536 12,637 18,173
35-44 6,365 12,774 19,139
45-54 5,585 11,091 16,676
55-64 4,180 8,895 13,075
65-74 4,116 9,633 13,749
75+ 7,294 22,257 29,551

Most Common Injuries

Body Part Diagnosis Est. Injuries
Head Internal Injury 13,370
Eyeball Contusions, Abr. 13,357
Lower Trunk Strain, Sprain 11,357
Face Laceration 8,681
Lower Trunk Other 8,353
Foot Contusions, Abr. 6,878
Face Contusions, Abr. 6,587
Upper Trunk Other 5,208
Lower Trunk Fracture 4,410
Shoulder Strain, Sprain 4,037
Upper Trunk Strain, Sprain 3,668
Head Laceration 3,644
Finger Laceration 3,381
Wrist Strain, Sprain 3,320
Neck Strain, Sprain 3,248

Severity Breakdown

Treated/examined And Released 91.8% (183,982)
Treated And Admitted/hospitalized 5.6% (11,124)
Left Without Being Seen 1.2% (2,454)
Treated And Transferred 0.7% (1,473)
Held For Observation 0.7% (1,318)
Unknown, Not Stated 0.0% (16)

ER Visit Narratives

Real anonymized emergency room reports from the CPSC NEISS database.

Age 29 · Female · Toe · Fracture · 2024

29 YOF SLIPPED ON A BOOK INJURED FOOT AND TOE DX: FX TOE AND PAIN FOOT

Age 78 · Male · Lower Trunk · Other · 2024

78YOM PRESENT TO ED W/ LOW BACK PX AFTER A FALL DOWN MULTIPLE STAIRS.PT WAS REPORTEDLY CARRYING SOME BOOKS,HIS *** UP THE STAIRS,FAMILY THINKS HE LOST BALANCE FALLING BACKWARDS,2-3MIN LOC.DX:TRAUMA

Age 82 · Male · Lower Trunk · Fracture · 2024

82 YOM HAD UNWITNESSED FALL AT HOME WHEN HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO PICK UP A HEAVY THOUSAND-PAGE BOOK. DX: DISPLACED INTERTROCHANTERIC FRACTURE LEFT FEMUR.

Age 91 · Male · Lower Leg · Fracture · 2024

91YOM WAS WALKING WHILE CARRYING A STACK OF BOOKS AND FELL INTO A HOLE DX: FRACTURED RIGHT LOWER LEG

Age 48 · Female · Eyeball · Contusions, Abr. · 2024

48YOF PRESENTS WITH LEFT EYE PAIN AFTER TURNING A PAGE IN A BOOK AND ACCIDENTALLY HIT HER EYE WITH THE CORNER OF THE PAGE DX: CORNEAL ABRASION

Age 11 · Female · Finger · Other · 2024

11YOF BIB DAD WITH FINGER PAIN AFTER BOOK FELL ON HER FINGER PT LEFT ED DX: RIGHT POINTER FINGER INJURY

Age 13 · Female · Shoulder · Other · 2024

13 YOF C/O SHOULDER PAIN AFTER TRYING TO CATCH FALL ING BOOK FROM DESK AT SCHOOL DX SHOUNDER PAIN

Age 7 · Female · Face · Contusions, Abr. · 2024

7YOF TRIPPED ON A BOOK AT SCHOOL AND FELL STRIKING FACE ON THE CORNER OF A DESK DX: CONTUSION FACE

Age 223 · Female · Eyeball · Contusions, Abr. · 2024

23MOF STRUCK IN THE RIGHT EYE WITH A BOOK WHILE PLAYING WITH COUSIN DX: CORNEAL ABRASION

Age 65 · Female · Ankle · Fracture · 2024

65YOF, COMPLAINING OF ANKLE PAIN REPORTS TWO DAYS AGO WAS RUSHING IN HER HOUSE WHEN TRIPPED OVER A STACK OF BOOKS TWISTING HER ANKLE AWKWARDLY, DX: CLOSED NONDISPLACED FRACTURE OF LATERAL MALLEOLUS OF LEFT FIBULA

Age 73 · Female · Hand · Fracture · 2024

73YOF PRESENTED TO ED C/O FALL, PT STATED SHE TRIPPED AND FELL ONTO FACE AFTER TRIPPING OVER GRANDCHILD BOOK THAT WAS ON THE FLOOR. C/O LIP LACERATION. DX; LIP LACERATION, FALL, METACARPAL BONE FRACTURE

Age 68 · Female · Lower Trunk · Other · 2024

68YOF PRESENTS WITH LOW BAACK PAIN THAT BEGAN APPROXIMATELY FIVE DAYS AGO. PATIENT STATES SHE WAS SITTING READING A BOOK AND SHEN SHE STOOD UP SHE FELT PAIN IN HER LOW BACK. DX: LOW BACK PAIN/SPASM

Consumer Incident Reports

Reports filed by consumers on SaferProducts.gov.

9/3/2025 · Injury, First Aid Received by Non-Medical Professional · Lovevery, Inc · Illinois

While reading Lovevery's "Leo and Melody at the Farm" book, my daughter ran her fingers along the fence page. It was like sandpaper, extremely rough. The nails and skin off three of her fingers came off while touching this page, and she was left crying in a puddle of blood. This is a please-touch book with various textures and is published by Lovevery.

9/25/2013 · Incident, No Injury · VIACOM · Idaho

My child was playing in her playpen with her Dora the explorer camera contest book. I then heard her throw up. I picked her up and she threw up quite violently 4 more times. On the last time, I realized there was a piece of plastic, almost like a laminate or a clear wrapper. I put her down and checked in the playpen to see what on earth it was and realized there was more laminate pieces laying in there. I picked them all out and then went through her toys and realized it was the dora book. It was coated in a laminate film but on the front where there is a cutout for a toy camera it wasn't secure allowing her to peel pieces of film off. I now realize the vomiting first started out with her choking and gagging which was what alerted me to pick her up. Some of the pieces were large and could have easily cut off her airway. I pealed the rest of the film off of the book and it covered both the front and the back of the book and was relatively easy to peel off.

9/21/2018 · Injury, First Aid Received by Non-Medical Professional · PRIDDY BOOKS · Minnesota

We purchased a "Happy Baby 123" book published by Priddy Books from a Walmart store in Saint Paul Minnesota. My 20 month old toddler has worn the books binding out quite significantly. Today she had the book in her hand while playing in our living room when out of no where she began to choke. I immediately picked her up and looked in her mouth to find a piece of plastic cellophane that was used to coat the book. After removing this fairly large piece of cellophane from her throat, I looked at the book to see if there was any type of choking hazard warning anywhere on the book, there was not. This situation could have had a very different outcome had I not been paying attention.

9/10/2025 · Injury, Seen by Medical Professional · Walmart Stores Inc. · Michigan

We purchased two small books from the brand Spark for our baby (7 months old), and both of them came with an extra sticker label placed over the original product label. On one of the books, this extra sticker came loose while our daughter was playing, and she swallowed it. She choked on the sticker, and we had to perform the choking rescue maneuver. Thankfully, our daughter is now fine, and the sticker later passed in her stool. However, this could have been much worse if the sticker had remained stuck in her throat. I am attaching a photo of the sticker from the second book (which has not detached) to show what the label looks like.

8/25/2011 · Incident, No Injury · Kids Preferred · Arizona

Amazing Baby Feel and Learn soft toy book has a [REDACTED] string attached with 2 plastic rings. This is a baby item for infants. 6 month old daughter was playing with this and got the string completely wrapped around her neck. Luckily she was being supervised and we were able to get it off of her and she did not get strangled. This could potentially have been a very serious situation. This item is sold on the internet and sold by the company amazing baby. They should not sell baby toys that have strings attached as this could pose a strangulation risk. It is sold at many retailers as well.

8/25/2011 · Incident, No Injury · Hinkler Books · Missouri

My grandson was in his bed reading a "Baby's first"book by Hinkler Books Pty. Ltd. When I went to check on him a few minutes later, he had torn the cover off the book and was playing with stuffing or padding the manufacturer had placed underneath the book cover. It was white in color and he was tearing it apart and could have easily ingested the material. The book lists as it's e-mail hinklerbook.com and has an Austrailian address.

7/7/2023 · Injury, Seen by Medical Professional · Weekend Learning Publishers · New Jersey

I purchased the Beginners Arabic Reading book with 36 (thirty six) pages from Amazon.com this book has orange color and has like three Arabic letters in its cover ---its ISBN # 978--1--936569--22-9 and the UPC bar code(on the big and long bar code) is 978 1936 569229 and there is another short bar code near the big bar code is 50600 I purchased this book on June 26 of 2023 and received it last week on June 30th of 2023.The book has a bad intoxicating odor when we open and use it.I did email to the seller on July 4th of 2023 at [REDACTED] in regards to the issue of the intoxicating odor ,but he did not respond back,so I called the seller on July 5th of 2023 and asked him about my email and also told him on the phone about the intoxicating odor. The seller said that he was only selling the books and that the intoxicating odors are the issues that are coming from the publisher. Then I told the seller to find my email and forward it to the publisher. I am getting painful headaches and nauseating from those bad odors. The seller said that he was not near the laptop, so I asked the seller to call me when he sees my email and he said YES that he would call me,but he never did and today is July 7th of 2023. I never heard from the seller and so I decided to report the issue here. inspect ALL the books that this seller is selling ,because seems like ALL he cares is to sell them and he does NOT care about intoxicating the other with his books. Sounds like he is a greedy person. Please do what is needed to be done. Thank you !

7/26/2014 · Unspecified · RANDOM HOUSE INC. · Alabama

Safety concern: Baby's board book- pat the bunny by Dorothy Kunhardt Published by Golden Books Made with a plastic spiral piece in the spine of the book, which can be broken easily and become a choking hazard. On various online shopping sites, I have read parental reviews that describe the ease at which their little ones tore the pages off the plastic piece. I haven't read of any choking incidents, but I won't buy this book for my newest grandchild even though it is a beloved classic for babies (when it was made with a traditional binding method). The possibility for choking is SO OBVIOUS !!!

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Product Recalls

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Frequently Asked Questions

How dangerous are books, magazines, albums or scrapbooks?

Based on 20 years of CPSC data, books, magazines, albums or scrapbooks have a danger score of 37/100 (low risk). An estimated 10,017 ER-treated injuries occur annually in the U.S. related to this product category.

What are the most common injuries from books, magazines, albums or scrapbooks?

The most common injury is internal injury to the head, accounting for approximately 13,370 injuries over 20 years.

Are injuries from books, magazines, albums or scrapbooks increasing or decreasing?

Down 30% over 5 years.

Who is most at risk for books, magazines, albums or scrapbooks injuries?

The 5-14 age group accounts for the most injuries, with approximately 45,401 cases recorded over 20 years. Females are more frequently injured in this age group.

What happens when someone is injured by books, magazines, albums or scrapbooks?

Of all ER visits involving books, magazines, albums or scrapbooks, approximately 6.7% result in hospital admission. The majority of patients (93.3%) are treated and released from the emergency department.

How can I report a safety problem with books, magazines, albums or scrapbooks?

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.

Safety Guides

What this means for you

Treat the 37/100 score as relative risk between products, not your personal odds of injury.

  • See where this category ranks against every other tracked product. Full rankings
  • Injuries cluster in the 5-14 age group, take extra care if that describes your household.
  • Check for active recalls on this product before you assume it is safe. CPSC recalls

NEISS estimates ER-treated injuries from a national probability sample of hospitals; they do not capture injuries treated elsewhere or not treated at all.

Data: CPSC National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS) 2005–2024 and SaferProducts.gov consumer incident reports. Injury estimates are based on a nationally representative probability sample of U.S. hospital emergency departments. This page is for informational purposes only and is not affiliated with the CPSC.