Electric Scissors

What the CPSC Data Shows

Electric Scissors (CPSC product code 232, in the Kitchen Cooking Appliances category) generate an estimated 97 emergency-room visits every year in the United States, adding up to roughly 1,068 ER-treated injuries across the 17-year span from 2005 to 2021. PlainSafety derives a danger score of 27/100 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 2014 (172 estimated ER visits) and the quietest 2006 (31 estimated visits).

The single most common ER diagnosis for electric scissors is laceration to the finger, accounting for approximately 645 visits across the 20-year NEISS window, followed by fracture to the finger (233 cases). The 45-54 age group absorbs the largest share of injuries, about 324 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 4.7% 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 20 anonymized ER narratives - together forming a layered picture of how electric scissors 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 2021-12-31. For regulatory context, consult CPSC recall notices and the SaferProducts.gov public database linked below.