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CPSC NEISS Data 2005–2024

Day Wear

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.

Personal Care & Safety Products · CPSC Code 1645

Stable over 5 years

The verdict

Day Wear carry a danger score of 48/100 (moderate risk), driven by roughly 82,219 ER-treated injuries a year that are roughly flat over the last five years.

48/100
danger score (moderate risk)
82,219
ER visits per year (avg)
12.6%
end in hospital admission
75+
most-injured age group

Every figure is rendered from the CPSC NEISS record for product code 1645 - last data year 2024.

PlainSafety danger score

0/100100/10048/100
PlainSafety danger score

Source: CPSC NEISS danger-score model As of 2024

How this 48/100 score is built

The score is computed from four CPSC-derived factors for day wear - no opinion, no editorializing:

  • Injury volume82,219 ER visits/yr
  • Severity (hospitalization rate)12.6%
  • Fatality rate0.03%
  • 5-year trend+8%

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

What the CPSC Data Shows

Day Wear (CPSC product code 1645, in the Personal Care & Safety Products category) generate an estimated 82,219 emergency-room visits every year in the United States, adding up to roughly 1.6M ER-treated injuries across the 20-year span from 2005 to 2024. PlainSafety derives a danger score of 48/100 for this category (moderate risk), combining raw injury volume, demographic reach, severity of outcome, and multi-year trend. The five-year trajectory shows that injury counts are roughly flat over the last five years, with the busiest year on record being 2024 (129,257 estimated ER visits) and the quietest 2007 (45,165 estimated visits).

The single most common ER diagnosis for day wear is internal injury to the head, accounting for approximately 105,400 visits across the 20-year NEISS window, followed by other to the lower trunk (81,478 cases). The 75+ age group absorbs the largest share of injuries, about 350,828 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 12.6% of ER visits involving this product end in hospital admission or transfer, and a small fraction (0.03%) result in fatality.

Beyond the hospital-sampled NEISS projections, this page also aggregates 246 consumer incident reports filed directly on SaferProducts.gov, plus 20 anonymized ER narratives - together forming a layered picture of how day wear 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.

82,219
Injuries / Year
12.6%
Hospitalization Rate
0.03%
Fatality Rate

Annual Injury Estimates (2005–2024)

40K60K80K100K120K140K 20052008201120142017202020232024 129K
Estimated annual emergency-room visits for Day Wear, 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 52,252 44,004 96,263
5-14 100,483 76,236 176,828
15-24 85,352 95,454 180,918
25-34 88,279 94,576 182,855
35-44 84,809 86,022 170,831
45-54 83,953 77,310 161,343
55-64 78,508 83,565 162,128
65-74 69,438 92,865 162,303
75+ 137,839 212,989 350,828

Most Common Injuries

Body Part Diagnosis Est. Injuries
Head Internal Injury 105,400
Lower Trunk Other 81,478
Lower Trunk Fracture 60,248
Lower Trunk Strain, Sprain 58,959
Upper Trunk Other 46,805
Foot Other 37,081
Face Laceration 34,423
Upper Trunk Derma/conjunct 31,398
Lower Trunk Contusions, Abr. 31,099
Head Laceration 26,405
Lower Leg Burns, Thermal 23,728
Upper Trunk Fracture 22,634
Shoulder Strain, Sprain 22,618
Upper Trunk Contusions, Abr. 21,273
Shoulder Dislocation 20,566

Severity Breakdown

Treated/examined And Released 84.9% (1.4M)
Treated And Admitted/hospitalized 11.2% (184,341)
Treated And Transferred 2.1% (33,980)
Left Without Being Seen 1.0% (16,418)
Held For Observation 0.8% (12,403)
Fatality Incl. Doa, Died In Er 0.0% (429)
Unknown, Not Stated 0.0% (108)

ER Visit Narratives

Real anonymized emergency room reports from the CPSC NEISS database.

Age 70 · Male · Lower Arm · Contusions, Abr. · 2024

70 YOM-PINCHED HIS FOREARM IN A DRILL BIT-CAUGHT HIS SLEEVE - WORKING IN HIS GARAGE DX: FOREARM CONTUSION

Age 215 · Male · Mouth · Laceration · 2024

15MOM PRESENTS TO ED W/ LIP INJURY. PT GOT SKIN CAUGHT BETWEEN FRONT TEETH, AS MOM PULLED SWEATSHIRT OVER HEAD. BLED A LITTLE. DX: LACERATION OF SUPERIOR LABIAL FRENULUM

Age 35 · Male · Neck · Burns, Thermal · 2024

35YOM WAS USING RUBBING ALCOHOL TO CLEAN A WOUND WHILE HOLDING A CIGARETTE, CAUSING EXPLOSION, SKIN AND SHIRT CAUGHT ON FIRE AND SINGED HIS BEARD, DX BURN TO CHEST AND NECK, NO F.D. ATTENDANCE NOTED IN ED RECORD

Age 97 · Female · Shoulder · Strain, Sprain · 2024

97YOF WAS PUTTING ON HER SWEATER WHEN SHE TWISTED HER SHOULDER DX:STRAINED SHOULDER

Age 18 · Male · Lower Leg · Laceration · 2024

18YOM WAS WEARING PANTS AND JUMPED OVER A FENCE AND LACERATED HIS LEFT ANTERIOR LOWER LEG DX: LACERATION OF LEFT LEG

Age 51 · Female · Lower Trunk · Other · 2024

51YOF PRESENTS WITH LOW BACK PAIN THAT STARTED WHILE SHE WAS PICKING UP AND PUTTING ON HER PANTS DX: CHRONIC BACK PAIN

Age 72 · Female · Wrist · Other · 2024

72YOF PATIENT WAS TRYING TO SIT WHEN HER SOCKS SLID OUT AND SHE LANDED ON HER BUTTOCKS, AT A LOCAL HOTEL, SHOULDE AND WRIST PAIN DX: GROUND LEVEL FALL, ACUTE PAIN OF LEFT SHOULDER, RIGHT WRIST PAIN

Age 69 · Male · Head · Laceration · 2024

69 YOM SLIPPED ON HIS SOCK ON A STEP AND FELL STRIKING HIS HEAD ON THE FLOOR WITH NO LOC. DX HEAD LAC

Age 31 · Male · Eyeball · Foreign Body · 2024

31YOM C/O FOREIGN BODY IN EYE AND ABRASIONS TO LEFT CORNEA S/P PT WAS TAKING OFF HIS SHIRT AND FELT A FOREIGN BODY (INKNOWN) FLY INTO HIS EYE. DX: FOREIGN BODY IN EYE AND ABRASION TO LEFT CORNEA

Age 91 · Female · Head · Concussion · 2024

91YOF WAS HANGING CLOTHES IN HER CLOSET WHEN SHE HAD A FALL DX: CONCUSSION, SKIN TEAR OF RIGHT HAND

Age 38 · Male · Upper Trunk · Burns, Thermal · 2024

38 YOM WAS FRYING FISH IN OIL WHEN THE FRYER CAUGHT FIRE, HE ATTEMPTED TO PUT IT OUT WITH WATER AND IT FLASHED ONTO HIS SHIRT CAUSING BURNS TO EAR, FACE, NECK, AND CHEST, UNKNOWN FIRE DEPARTMENT DX: BURNS

Age 67 · Male · Face · Other · 2024

67YOM WAS IN ELEVATOR WHEN PANTS BEGAN TO FALL AND TRIED TO FIX THEM AND SLIPPED AND HIT HIS FOREHEAD WITH PAIN DX: COVID, FALL ON, FROM INCLINE

Consumer Incident Reports

Reports filed by consumers on SaferProducts.gov.

9/5/2013 · Unspecified · Toy's R Us · Unspecified

The Koala Baby Children's Romper from Toys R Us in 18month has a defective snap. It is the third snap from the top and was not attached properly. You cannot snap this snap closed because of the defect. This presents a choking hazard as pieces start to come off as it is worn and washed. The RN# on the tag is 67391.

9/4/2012 · Injury, Seen by Medical Professional · J.C.Penney Company, Inc · New York

Caller who lives in Erie, PA is contacting CPSC on behalf of her sister who lives in New York. Her sister purchased a shirt, wore it without washing it and after a few hours at work everyone was asking where the smell of motor oil was coming from. Eventually the caller's sister realized that the smell was coming from her new shirt, she went to the ladies room and changed into a sweater she had available only to find that she had a burn rash on her shoulders, near the bottom of her belly area going around to the buttocks. Caller's sister went to health care office in New York, this health care office diagnosed burns and prescribes [REDACTED]. Caller would like this in first UPDATE: Consumer purchased one shirt at JC Penny [REDACTED], and is unsure what caused 2nd degree burn or the contact dermititis. Consumer is unable to find a lab willing to test them.

9/30/2011 · Incident, No Injury · Carter's · Texas

We have been dressing our 6-month-old twins almost exclusively in Carter's bodysuits during the day. Some of the bodysuits have embroidered designs with a backing material on the inside to keep the embroidery thread from chafing. The backing material has started to come off of the bodysuits after less than 2 months of use. I didn't realize this, and when I dressed my daughter in her sleeper earlier this week the backing material had come off entirely and must have attached itself to her sleeper (static cling from the dryer). I didn't notice this had happened until I went to check on her at 1:00 a.m. when I found the piece of backing material IN HER MOUTH. Luckily she didn't try to swallow it. This was a about a 2" x 3" piece of material - definitely a choking hazard. They need to figure out a way to make the material adhere better to the bodysuits so this doesn't happen.

9/28/2011 · Injury, Seen by Medical Professional · Fashion Resource (TCL), Inc. · North Carolina

Around the last of may or the first of june i bought two pairs of faded glory blue jeans from wal-marts in lumberton N.C.. One was a pair of shorts and the other was a pair of capris, i washed them before i wore them. Around the 10th of june i wore them and thats when i first broke out with a rash on both fornt of my thigh's. on june 16th i had to go to the doctors due to the breakout and they prescibed me some medication (persidone) and the rash cleared up after taking the medicine within two days. At that time i hadnt thought it could of came from the blue jeans. after washing the blue jeans for the second time i wore them and broke out once again with a rash in the same place, so instead of returning to the doctors i had a refill on the persidone and began taking it again to get rid of the rash and it helped. then after re-washing the blue jeans i wore them again and the same thing happened but worser, i had to go to urgent care in pembroke on june 27th due to the trouble of not being able to breath, the rash had became worser than anytime before turning my thighs black and blue. while at urgent care they drawed blood, checked me for rockie mount spotted fever, and lime disease but it all turned out to be negative. they did find that my white blood cell count was a little higher than normal. they ended up giving me a shot not quite forsure what it was but it was to help with the rash and they also put me back on persidone along with medication to help with the itching. On june 28th or the 29th i returned the jeans to wal-mart, the same one that i purchased the pants from. i spoke with a lady name [redacted] who was the mannager and she wrote up an inccident report on the jeans and stated that CMI (Claims management inc.) would be contacting me with in five to seven buisness days. but on thursday evening june 30th i began to haveing trouble breathing again along wiht swelling in my face and dizzy spells. so my husband took me to the emergency room in lumberton N.C

9/21/2015 · Injury, First Aid Received by Non-Medical Professional · Victoria's Secret · Unspecified

I had bought 3 Victoria's Secret bras at the end of August and started using them in September. After a couple of uses (without washing the bras), I started getting very itchy hives on my skin (mainly the bra area), small at first but then they started to become bigger. They also started to spread to the rest of my body (extremities and back). I took an antihistamine late that day and they were gone the next day. I didn't realize it was the bras until I wore them again the next day (a different one from the same set of purchase) and experienced the same thing, but this time it was worse as it happened faster, and the hives were bigger. Washing the bras doesn't help because just touching the bras after I wash them, triggered another reaction of hives. I am sure it is the bra because I have no other allergies, and when I started using them was when it started happening. The hives also stopped when I stopped wearing them.

9/20/2017 · Injury, Emergency Department Treatment Received · The Cato Corporation · Missouri

Below is the narrative from a recent incident that occurred within the jurisdiction of the [REDACTED] Fire Department: "Called for a burn victim. Upon our arrival Medic 14 was on the scene with a female patient that had 1st and 2nd degree burns on her right leg. Witness state she was wearing a full length sundress when she walked by a small patio table with a candle and/or tiki torch on it and ignited her dress. The dress became fully engulfed by the time family members were able to extinguish the dress with a garden hose. The patient was conscious and alert sitting in a chair. The dress was found lying on the ground almost completely burned/charred. Medic 14 handled all of patient care while members of Truck 29 assisted with patient packaging and loading to the ambulance. Medic 14 transported to [REDACTED] ER. Truck 29 returned to service."

9/2/2022 · Injury, Emergency Department Treatment Received · Willbond Technology Limited · North Carolina

On June 17, 2022 I was seriously injured by the product attached to this email. The Multi Design Breast Pasties. I purchased the pasties online from Amazon.com, Inc. It is now August 31, 2022 and my injury has gradually become worse. I would like to open an investigation to be sure that Amazon.com, Inc. has complied with all testing guidelines before products are up to be sold to the consumer. There are some international sellers involved as the third party.

9/19/2015 · Incident, No Injury · Trendy Treehouse · Colorado

I purchased an infant bodysuit from The Trendy Treehouse on 3/31/15. We wore and washed the bodysuit four times when the snaps at the bottom detached. I discovered my young daughter with the snap in her mouth, a potential choking hazard and/or lead risk. I contacted The Trendy Treehouse to inform them of the defective item, was asked to return the suit for a replacement or refund. The company has yet to respond with a replacement or a refund and has gone silent. I am concerned that their company is not using products that are safe for children, on top of ignoring safety concerns from customers that emerge.

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Product Recalls

Search for active and past recalls related to day wear on the CPSC website.

Frequently Asked Questions

How dangerous are day wear?

Based on 20 years of CPSC data, day wear have a danger score of 48/100 (moderate risk). An estimated 82,219 ER-treated injuries occur annually in the U.S. related to this product category.

What are the most common injuries from day wear?

The most common injury is internal injury to the head, accounting for approximately 105,400 injuries over 20 years.

Are injuries from day wear increasing or decreasing?

Stable over 5 years.

Who is most at risk for day wear injuries?

The 75+ age group accounts for the most injuries, with approximately 350,828 cases recorded over 20 years. Females are more frequently injured in this age group.

What happens when someone is injured by day wear?

Of all ER visits involving day wear, approximately 12.6% result in hospital admission. The majority of patients (87.4%) are treated and released from the emergency department.

How can I report a safety problem with day wear?

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 48/100 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 75+ 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.