Electric Shoe Polishers

What the CPSC Data Shows

Electric Shoe Polishers (CPSC product code 1613, in the Personal Care & Safety Products category) generate an estimated 18 emergency-room visits every year in the United States, adding up to roughly 72 ER-treated injuries across the 7-year span from 2008 to 2014. PlainSafety derives a danger score of 39/100 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 stable over the most recent five-year window, with the busiest year on record being 2011 (22 estimated ER visits) and the quietest 2014 (14 estimated visits).

The single most common ER diagnosis for electric shoe polishers is poisoning to the all parts body, accounting for approximately 16 visits across the 20-year NEISS window, followed by other to the lower arm (15 cases). The 0-4 age group absorbs the largest share of injuries, about 37 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 42.4% 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 3 anonymized ER narratives - together forming a layered picture of how electric shoe polishers 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 2014-12-31. For regulatory context, consult CPSC recall notices and the SaferProducts.gov public database linked below.