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CPSC NEISS Data 2005–2024

Electric Blenders

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.

Kitchen Cooking Appliances · CPSC Code 215

Stable over 5 years

The verdict

Electric Blenders carry a danger score of 35/100 (low risk), driven by roughly 6,908 ER-treated injuries a year that are roughly flat over the last five years.

35/100
danger score (low risk)
6,908
ER visits per year (avg)
0.9%
end in hospital admission
25-34
most-injured age group

Every figure is rendered from the CPSC NEISS record for product code 215 - last data year 2024.

PlainSafety danger score

0/100100/10035/100
PlainSafety danger score

Source: CPSC NEISS danger-score model As of 2024

How this 35/100 score is built

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

  • Injury volume6,908 ER visits/yr
  • Severity (hospitalization rate)0.9%
  • Fatality rate0.00%
  • 5-year trend+1%

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

What the CPSC Data Shows

Electric Blenders (CPSC product code 215, in the Kitchen Cooking Appliances category) generate an estimated 6,908 emergency-room visits every year in the United States, adding up to roughly 138,162 ER-treated injuries across the 20-year span from 2005 to 2024. PlainSafety derives a danger score of 35/100 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 roughly flat over the last five years, with the busiest year on record being 2024 (10,123 estimated ER visits) and the quietest 2005 (2,349 estimated visits).

The single most common ER diagnosis for electric blenders is laceration to the finger, accounting for approximately 86,922 visits across the 20-year NEISS window, followed by laceration to the hand (13,018 cases). The 25-34 age group absorbs the largest share of injuries, about 27,848 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 0.9% of ER visits involving this product end in hospital admission or transfer.

Beyond the hospital-sampled NEISS projections, this page also aggregates 386 consumer incident reports filed directly on SaferProducts.gov, plus 20 anonymized ER narratives - together forming a layered picture of how electric blenders 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.

6,908
Injuries / Year
0.9%
Hospitalization Rate
0.00%
Fatality Rate

Annual Injury Estimates (2005–2024)

02K4K6K8K10K12K 20052008201120142017202020232024 10K
Estimated annual emergency-room visits for Electric Blenders, 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 4,500 2,047 6,547
5-14 6,813 6,352 13,165
15-24 6,482 10,676 17,158
25-34 7,487 20,361 27,848
35-44 6,426 19,361 25,787
45-54 4,509 14,952 19,461
55-64 3,574 12,602 16,176
65-74 2,274 5,883 8,157
75+ 801 3,049 3,850

Most Common Injuries

Body Part Diagnosis Est. Injuries
Finger Laceration 86,922
Hand Laceration 13,018
Foot Laceration 8,934
Finger Fracture 3,931
Finger Avulsion 2,520
Face Burn, Scald 1,971
Toe Laceration 1,957
Lower Leg Laceration 1,379
Finger Amputation 1,318
Lower Arm Laceration 1,279
Wrist Laceration 1,198
Foot Contusions, Abr. 983
Face Laceration 932
Internal Ingestion 922
Head Internal Injury 747

Severity Breakdown

Treated/examined And Released 97.8% (135,118)
Left Without Being Seen 1.1% (1,542)
Treated And Admitted/hospitalized 0.7% (1,017)
Treated And Transferred 0.2% (327)
Held For Observation 0.1% (164)

ER Visit Narratives

Real anonymized emergency room reports from the CPSC NEISS database.

Age 35 · Male · Finger · Laceration · 2024

35YOM STS CUT FINGER ON THE BLENDER DX THUMB LACERATION

Age 68 · Male · Finger · Laceration · 2024

68 YOM CUT TO RT THUMB ON A BLENDER BLADE 20 MIN PRIOR TO ARRIVAL. DX: LAC TO RT THUMB

Age 60 · Female · Finger · Laceration · 2024

60YOF REPORTS WITH FINGER LACERATION WHEN SHE CUT IT ON A BLENDER 3 DAYS AGO. DX HEALING LACERATION

Age 3 · Male · Foot · Laceration · 2024

3 YOM ACCIDENTALLY STEPPED ON A BLENDER BLADE. DX: LACERATION LEFT FOOT.

Age 43 · Female · Finger · Laceration · 2024

43 YOF PRESENTS WITH SALAD BLENDER BLADE STUCK IN HER DORSAL RIGHT INDEX FINGER AFTER ATTEMPTING TO CLEAN THE DEVICE WHILE IT WAS PLUGGED IN. DX: LACERATION WITH FOREIGN BODY RIGHT INDEX FINGER.

Age 27 · Male · Finger · Laceration · 2024

27YOM PATIENT REPORTS HE CUT HIS FINGER IN ELECTRIC BEATER DX: LACERATION OF LEFT INDEX FINGER WITHOUT FOREIGN BODY WITHOUT DAMAGE TO NAIL

Age 78 · Female · Internal · Ingestion · 2024

78YOF STATES THAT SHE JUST GOT A NEW BLENDER AND THE BLADES SEEM TO HAVE BEEN BREAKING DOWN SHE BELIEVES SHE SWALLOWED METAL FRAGMENTS NOW HAS ABDOMINAL PAIN DX: SWALLOWED FOREIGN BODY

Age 36 · Female · Finger · Laceration · 2024

36YOF PATIENT CUT HER FINGER WHILE CLEANING A BLENDER, ELOPED DX: LACERATION OF RIGHT MIDDLE FINGER WITHOUT FOREIGN BODY WITHOUT DAMAGE TO NAIL

Age 62 · Male · Finger · Laceration · 2024

62YOM WITH LAC TO FINGER FROM BLENDER DX; LAC TO FINGER

Age 38 · Male · Finger · Fracture · 2024

38YOM PRESENTED TO ED C/O LACERATION TO FINGER, PT STATED HE WAS USING A ELECTRIC BLENDER AND ATTEMPTED TO CLEAN IT AND IT TURNED ON CAUSING LACERATION. DX; OPEN FRACTURE OF DISTAL PHALANX, FINGER LACERATION

Age 48 · Male · Finger · Laceration · 2024

48YOM PRESENTED TO ED C/O LACERATION OF FINGER, PT STATED HE WAS CLEANING INSIDE OF BLENDER WHEN HIS FINGER WAS CUT BY THE BLADE. DX; LACERATION

Age 30 · Female · Finger · Laceration · 2024

30YOF PRESENTS AFTER SHE WAS TAKING A BLADE OUT OF BLENDER WHEN SHE GOT CUT ON RIGHT THUMB. DX: LACERATION OF RIGHT THUMB

Consumer Incident Reports

Reports filed by consumers on SaferProducts.gov.

9/8/2016 · Injury, Emergency Department Treatment Received · Homeland Housewares LLC · New York

August 19, 2016 at approximately 5:00 pm I was making a smoothie that consisted of almond milk, ½ a banana, peanut butter and ice. When the blades stopped, which they usually due if I need to add more fluid, I went to take it off. Although the NutriBullett claims it can crush ice without liquid, this is not the case. I have found the blades frequently stop due to a lack of fluid and the blades being obstructed. As I went to remove the canister, pushing down and turning to the left, enough fluid hit the blades and they started. In the meantime the cup was not secured tight enough to the blades and the cup began to dislodge from the blades and the base. Part of my shake came up the side of the cup and my right hand slid on to the partial exposed blades. The blades continued to work because of at least one of the “nubs” stayed in the base until the cup became complete dislodged from the base. The trajectory of my shake and blood from my hand went across the kitchen a minimum of 10 feet and as high as approximately six feet. The injury was to my right pinky finger and the base/palm of that finger. I required 27 stitches. Witnesses: [REDACTED] and [REDACTED]

9/7/2014 · Injury, Emergency Department Treatment Received · Euro-Pro Operating LLC · California

While cleaning the Ninja Blender I poured the warm water soap solution out (as indicated by the directions) at which point the blades fell out of the blender hitting my right hand creating deep lacerations across my middle and ring fingers. This immediately caused loss of control and sensation in my ring finger. I was taken to the emergency department for medical treatment, I have since been under the care of a hand surgeon who was able to surgically reattach my tendons, though I may have some permanent nerve damage. This product has caused me a great deal of unnecessary pain and suffering. The Ninja blender product design is flawed and needs to be removed from the market to prevent any future injuries.

9/5/2024 · Injury, No First Aid or Medical Attention Received · Sunbeam Products, Inc. d/b/a Jarden Consumer Solutions · New Mexico

Oster blender Duralast Classic. While my husband was twisting the blender onto the base, a small glass shard broke off the blender and shot into my 9-year-old son's neck. He was standing about two feet away. He has scratch marks but is otherwise fine. If the glass had gone into his eye or other location, he could have been seriously injured.

9/5/2023 · Incident, No Injury · CONAIR CORPORATION · Massachusetts

Blending a protein shake (powder and water, 3 small ice cubes) in my Cuisinart Velocity Ultra blender which has been used less than 10 times in the past couple years. A blade detached and was in the shake as I poured it. The blade is whole, unbroken just no longer attached to the blender. I have sent in a note to Cuisinart consumer support.

9/5/2023 · Injury, First Aid Received by Non-Medical Professional · Homeland Housewares LLC · Oklahoma

It exploded hot content burning my face , arms and chest. It also explodes cold content and motor continues with blender cup removed

9/5/2023 · Incident, No Injury · BlendJet · South Carolina

Blendjet plug melted in product. Smelled saved before possible fire.

9/5/2023 · Injury, First Aid Received by Non-Medical Professional · BlendJet · South Carolina

the blender started smoking while it was plugged in and when my son went to unplug it, it burned his finger and fried the charging cable.

9/4/2021 · Incident, No Injury · Baby Brezza Enterprises · Tennessee

Preemie baby was pooping very frequently (small amounts nearly every time she ate) and then only gained 2 oz at her weight check. I couldn’t figure out why but then checked my Brezza and formula seemed watery. I pulled water container out a bit so it wouldn’t dispense water when used - only powder - and found it was only dispensing half the amount of formula needed for a 2 oz bottle. The risk to a newborn baby, especially a preemie, of having watered down formula is significant. This item should be recalled and I find the behavior of the company abhorrent.

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Product Recalls

Search for active and past recalls related to electric blenders on the CPSC website.

Frequently Asked Questions

How dangerous are electric blenders?

Based on 20 years of CPSC data, electric blenders have a danger score of 35/100 (low risk). An estimated 6,908 ER-treated injuries occur annually in the U.S. related to this product category.

What are the most common injuries from electric blenders?

The most common injury is laceration to the finger, accounting for approximately 86,922 injuries over 20 years.

Are injuries from electric blenders increasing or decreasing?

Stable over 5 years.

Who is most at risk for electric blenders injuries?

The 25-34 age group accounts for the most injuries, with approximately 27,848 cases recorded over 20 years. Females are more frequently injured in this age group.

What happens when someone is injured by electric blenders?

Of all ER visits involving electric blenders, approximately 0.9% result in hospital admission. The majority of patients (99.1%) are treated and released from the emergency department.

How can I report a safety problem with electric blenders?

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 35/100 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 25-34 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.