Electric Mixers
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 231
Down 13% over 5 years
The verdict
Electric Mixers carry a danger score of 30/100 (low risk), driven by roughly 988 ER-treated injuries a year that are declining by about 13% over the last five years.
- 30/100
- danger score (low risk)
- 988
- ER visits per year (avg)
- 1.7%
- end in hospital admission
- 25-34
- most-injured age group
Every figure is rendered from the CPSC NEISS record for product code 231 - last data year 2024.
PlainSafety danger score
How this 30/100 score is built
The score is computed from four CPSC-derived factors for electric mixers - no opinion, no editorializing:
- Injury volume988 ER visits/yr
- Severity (hospitalization rate)1.7%
- Fatality rate0.00%
- 5-year trend-13%
See the full methodology for the exact weighting of each factor.
What the CPSC Data Shows
Electric Mixers (CPSC product code 231, in the Kitchen Cooking Appliances category) generate an estimated 988 emergency-room visits every year in the United States, adding up to roughly 19,765 ER-treated injuries across the 20-year span from 2005 to 2024. PlainSafety derives a danger score of 30/100 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 13% over the last five years, with the busiest year on record being 2013 (1,368 estimated ER visits) and the quietest 2023 (599 estimated visits).
The single most common ER diagnosis for electric mixers is laceration to the finger, accounting for approximately 6,430 visits across the 20-year NEISS window, followed by contusions, abr. to the hand (1,806 cases). The 25-34 age group absorbs the largest share of injuries, about 3,374 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 1.7% of ER visits involving this product end in hospital admission or transfer.
Beyond the hospital-sampled NEISS projections, this page also aggregates 63 consumer incident reports filed directly on SaferProducts.gov, plus 20 anonymized ER narratives - together forming a layered picture of how electric mixers 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)
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 | 505 | 665 | |
| 5-14 | 551 | 963 | |
| 15-24 | 377 | 1,094 | |
| 25-34 | 637 | 2,737 | |
| 35-44 | 398 | 2,770 | |
| 45-54 | 971 | 2,273 | |
| 55-64 | 409 | 1,433 | |
| 65-74 | 282 | 1,291 | |
| 75+ | 83 | 2,329 |
Most Common Injuries
| Body Part | Diagnosis | Est. Injuries |
|---|---|---|
| Finger | Laceration | |
| Hand | Contusions, Abr. | |
| Finger | Fracture | |
| Finger | Contusions, Abr. | |
| Hand | Laceration | |
| Finger | Strain, Sprain | |
| Lower Arm | Contusions, Abr. | |
| Foot | Contusions, Abr. | |
| Head | Internal Injury | |
| Finger | Avulsion | |
| Finger | Other | |
| Finger | Dislocation | |
| Toe | Fracture | |
| Lower Trunk | Strain, Sprain | |
| Wrist | Fracture |
Severity Breakdown
ER Visit Narratives
Real anonymized emergency room reports from the CPSC NEISS database.
68YOF COMPLAINS OF RIGHT FOOT AND ANKLE PAIN AFTER DROPPING AN INDUSTRIAL SIZED MIXER ON IT LAST WEEK. DX: CRUSH INJURY TO LOWER LEG, LACERATION OF LEG
31 YOF GOT HER LT HAND STUCK IN A MIXER WHICH HAD A KNEADING ATTACHMENT WHILE MAKING PRETZELS 45 MINUTES AGO AT HOME. DX: HAND CONTUSION
65YOF WITH LAC. TO LEFT THUMB. PATIENT WAS USING AN ELECTRIC MIXER, A GLASS BOWL, THE MIXER MALFUFNCTIONED AND PATIENT REACHED TO STOP IT AND HIT THE BOWL AND THE BOWL BROKE AND SHE CUT HER LEFT THUMB.DX: MULTIPLE LAC. LEFT THUMB, COMPLICATED REPAIR.
42YOF P/W HAND INJURY, PT STATES SHE CUT HER FINGER IN MIXER, C/O FINGER PAIN, DX: AMPUTATION OF FINGER
46YOF HAD HAND IN MIXER WAS TURNED ON INJURED FINGERS . DX CONTUSION TO FINGERS
24YOF REPORTS WITH FINGER LACERATION WHEN CLEANING THE BLADE OF A MIXER AT HOME. DX FINGER LACERATION
47YOF WAS USING A POWER MIXER WHILE MAKING A CAKE AND JAMMED HER LEFT FOURTH FINGER IN MIXER DX: FRACTURED FINGER
47YOF C/O HAND INJURY S/P PT STATES THAT APPROXIMATELY 3 HOURS PRIOR TO ARRIVAL HAD A PIZZA DOUGH MACHINE THAT STRETCHES PIZZA FELL ON HER HAND TRAPPING BETWEEN THIS MACHINE AND THE COUNTERTOP. DX: CONTUSION OF HAND; INJURY OF LEFT HAND
42 YOF PRESENTS AFTER A FALL AT HOME. HER HUSBAND REPORTED HEARING A LOUD THUD AND FOUND HER ON THE WITH THE KITCHEN MIXER. SHE WAS AWAKE AND ALERT AT THE TIME HE FOUND HER, BUT SHE DOES NOT EXACTLY REMEMBER THE EVENTS. SHE HAS 2.5 CM LACERATION TO THE ANTERIOR FOREHEAD AND A SIMILAR 2 CM LACERATION TO THE OCCIPUT. DX FOREHEAD LAC, SCALP LAC
38YOF TO ER FOR LEFT HAND PAIN AFTER INJURING WHILE USING HER KITCHEN MIXER AT HOME 30 MINS AGO PT HAS BRUISING TO HAND DX LEFT HAND CONTUSION
76 YOF PREPARING TO BAKE WAS PLACING INGEDIENTS INTO THE MIXER AND WHILE PLACING AN ATTACHMENT THE MIXER BEGAN TO SPIN DISLOCATING PT'S RIGHT RING FINGER, DX: FINGER CLOSED FRACTURE
76YOF PRESENTS WITH BRUISING AND PAIN TO LEFT HAND. PT PUT HAND-HELD MIXER DOWN AND TURNED IT OFF WITHOUT UNPLUGGING IT AND WENT TO REMOVE THE BEATERS WHEN IT WENT OFF AND SHE GOT HER HAND STUCK IN BETWEEN THE BEATERS. PT IS ON *** AND HAS PAIN WHEN MAKING A FIST. DX; HAND CONTUSION.
Consumer Incident Reports
Reports filed by consumers on SaferProducts.gov.
Sunbeam Mixmaster Heritage Series electric stand mixer model 2350 has several a couple of issues. 1) The beaters have nuts and bolts holding blades together and the nut came off into the batter causing chocking and dental hazard. This should have been welded rather than using this unsafe method to fasten the blades. Luckily I saw the nut in the batter before anyone was injured. 2) The bolts on bottom of the mixing bowl fall out causing unsanitary dish water to seep out of bowl on kitchen surfaces.
Kenmore Elite 400 watt 5 quart Red Stand Mixer Product faultiness description Serial #100.8920890A / 120Va.c 60Hz Made in China 8/9/14 To Whom it May Concern; I was given a Kenmore Elite 400, 5 quart Red Stand Mixer as a gift from my then boyfriend in the Christmas of 2010. I haven't used it since 2012, the last time I video taped it spinning out of control. This mixer will suddenly speed up in the middle of mixing something on slow speed. I would be mixing say, some cake batter on #2, it immediately would speed up to #9 in half a second. Very quickly! It would fling batter or flour everywhere. My son would be baking with me and he got really got scared of it. I would stop it immediately of course. It scared me too! The mixer is pretty heavy duty and something really serious couldve happened, fingers hurt, parts couldve come undone, who knows. No injuries have occured. I tried to use a few times after but it would speed up even more frequently. This mixer is really dangerous and unpredictable. I do not recommend buying this product and I hope there is a recall on it. Thank you, [REDACTED]
As I was mixing cheesecake batter, I heard a knocking noise as is the paddle attachment was hitting the side of the bowl. After stopping the machine and looking closer, I realized that a screw had fallen out and into the batter.
We purchased a Kitoart meat grinder attachment for a [REDACTED] stand mixer on August 7, 2019 from Amazon (https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07RWYW74H/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1). We used this product extensively and without incident until July 24, 2020. On July 24th, after grinding up approximately 4lbs of boneless turkey breasts, we found a small, approximately 1/4 inch metal shard in the sink while cleaning the grinder. The sharp is extremely sharp and, with jagged and ponted edges. There was an approximately 1/2 inch break in the grinding screw mechanism, which is larger than the shard that we found. We confirmed that the metal shard was not the only missing piece from the break in the grinding screw mechanism. We have discontinued use of and preserved the meat grinder and the shard as well as having taken pictures thereof. We will need to discard the meat ground that day as well as any meat in our freezer that we had ground previously with the product. This will result in a loss of at least $50 for us in terms of the meat that we will need to throw away and $63.99 for the purchase of the meat grinder.
The ninja IQ blender was brand new. I wash running a soap and water cycle thru to Clean It for the first time. I poured the soapy water into The sink and the blade came flying out. It hit the edge of the counter and bounced to The floor.it hit my foot. Severed the big toe tendon and damaged the capsulate. Surgery was required . Something so very very dangerous should not be made or sold by big companies that slap a warning label on The product and sell it with no regard for injuries. This one is bad.
1. a description of the consumer product or substance; KitchenAid KSM158GBCA 90th Anniversary Limited-Edition 5-Quart Stand Mixer, Candy Apple Red 2. the name of the manufacturer, importer, or private labeler of the product; Kitchen aid 3. a description of an illness, injury, or death, or the risk of illness, injury, or death related to use of the product; My 3 year old daughter got a laceration requiring 8 stitches on the foot when the glass bowl shattered. It could have been much more dangerous. While the machine was in operation (beating butter and sugar), the accessory screw located on the machine came loose and fell into the bowl, and bowl shattered, and glass pieces flew about. My daughter who was nearby the counter where the stand mixer was injured. 4. the date or estimated date when the incident occurred or when you first became aware of the potential for the product to act in an unsafe manner; 7/21/2011 6:00pm
When in use this morning, the KitchenAid hand mixer would not power-down using the thumb switch. I had to call for assistance -- I had a running mixer with no way to safety turn it off. Very dangerous. Normally, the black plastic thumb switch on top controls power and motor speed. This switch failed in the "ON" position. There is a rattling sound inside - as if a part may have come loose. This product was just purchased in May, 2018. Model: KHM614CU 0 Serial: W81377075 Model type: "Household mixer"
We responded to house full of smoke call and found that an 8 year old Cuisinart 7 qt stand up mixer had caught fire. The fire self extinguished after damaging the countertop. There was significant smoke damage to the home. There were no injuries. The mixer was last used 2 week prior and was left on the counter top. The switch was off and the unit was plugged into a nearby outlet. There were no know electrical problems in the house or with this mixer. No circuit breakers tripped during this incident. We estimate repairs and cleanup to be around $6,000.
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Product Recalls
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Frequently Asked Questions
How dangerous are electric mixers?
Based on 20 years of CPSC data, electric mixers have a danger score of 30/100 (low risk). An estimated 988 ER-treated injuries occur annually in the U.S. related to this product category.
What are the most common injuries from electric mixers?
The most common injury is laceration to the finger, accounting for approximately 6,430 injuries over 20 years.
Are injuries from electric mixers increasing or decreasing?
Down 13% over 5 years.
Who is most at risk for electric mixers injuries?
The 25-34 age group accounts for the most injuries, with approximately 3,374 cases recorded over 20 years. Females are more frequently injured in this age group.
What happens when someone is injured by electric mixers?
Of all ER visits involving electric mixers, approximately 1.7% result in hospital admission. The majority of patients (98.3%) are treated and released from the emergency department.
How can I report a safety problem with electric mixers?
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.
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What this means for you
Treat the 30/100 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.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, scored, and verified.