CPSC NEISS · code 3223

Fishing (activity, Apparel Or Equipment)

Fishing (activity, Apparel Or Equipment): danger rank #137 of 838 is not ER-volume rank #42 of 838 (66,834 estimated ER visits a year; roughly flat over the last five years).

Sports Protective Equipment & Gear CPSC NEISS through 2024

Danger score versus ER volume

Danger score versus ER volume

According to CPSC NEISS 2005-2024, Fishing (activity, Apparel Or Equipment) ranks #137 of 838 by danger score (41/100) at ER-volume #42 of 838 (66,834/yr). They are not the same ranking.

#137
danger rank of 838
#42
ER-volume rank of 838
41/100
danger score
66,834/yr
estimated ER visits (avg)

Danger score combines injury volume, hospitalization, fatality, and five-year trend. ER volume is the average annual NEISS estimate alone. Rank 1 is highest on each list.

Where this category's danger score sits nationally

Danger score (41/100) across 838 scored CPSC product categories

41 Higher than most more dangerous than 79% of 838 product categories

scored CPSC product categories, bucketed by value

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more product categories. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source CPSC NEISS, PlainSafety danger-score model · 2024

Composite verdict

Composite Safety Score: 52/100

One verdict blending 4 independently-sourced dimensions from two separate CPSC systems, each benchmarked against all 838 scored product categories by percentile rather than raw value, so no single huge-volume category can dominate the scale.

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Dimension Value National percentile Weight applied Source
Injury severity (hospitalization + fatality blend) 3 24th 35% CPSC NEISS 20-year severity index
Annual ER injury volume 66,834 100th 30% CPSC NEISS estimated annual ER-treated injuries
5-year injury trend -8% 54th 15% CPSC NEISS 5-year % change in ER-treated injuries
Consumer incident reports 2 25th 20% CPSC SaferProducts.gov public incident report count

Methodology: each dimension is ranked against the full population's p10/p25/p50/p75/p90 breakpoints and interpolated to a 0-100 percentile; the composite is the weighted average of available percentiles. See methodology for the full benchmark table.

Where 1.3M estimated ER injuries land on the body

Body-part shares from the same CPSC NEISS injury_types extract for product code 3223. Segments sum to 1.3M - a body-map mix, not a danger score or ER-volume rank.

Two danger lenses

Same-group peer scores and this product's dial

The bars compare PlainSafety danger scores inside the Sports Protective Equipment & Gear group (same CPSC NEISS extract). The dial is this product's score alone on the Low/Moderate/High bands. Do not read a peer bar as an ER-visit count.

Sports Protective Equipment & Gear danger scores

1. All Terrain Vehicles (# O…54/1002. Mopeds Or Power-assisted …54/1003. Exercise (activity Or App…48/1004. Snow Skiing (activity, Ap…47/1005. All Terrain Vehicles (fou…46/1006. Exercise Equipment45/1007. Tennis (activity, Apparel…44/1008. Fishing (activity, Appare…41/100
Higher score = higher composite danger in this group. Peer set is other scored products sharing the same CPSC group.
0/100100/10041/100
PlainSafety danger score · Fishing (activity, Apparel Or Equipment)

Source: CPSC NEISS danger-score model As of 2024

How this 41/100 score is built

The score is computed from four CPSC-derived factors for fishing (activity, apparel or equipment) - no opinion, no editorializing:

  • Injury volume 66,834 ER visits/yr Very high volume
  • Severity (hospitalization rate) 2.4% Low admission rate
  • Fatality rate 0.05% Above-typical fatality rate
  • 5-year trend-8%

Band labels compare this category against the corpus of 838 scored CPSC product categories, see the full methodology for the exact weighting of each factor.

What the CPSC Data Shows

Across the 20-year NEISS window from 2005 to 2024, injury counts for fishing (activity, apparel or equipment) are roughly flat over the last five years, with the busiest year on record being 2009 (75,490 estimated ER visits) and the quietest 2023 (54,230 estimated visits). The single most common ER diagnosis is foreign body to the finger, accounting for approximately 360,595 visits across the 20-year NEISS window, followed by foreign body to the hand (95,451 cases). The 5-14 age group absorbs the largest share of injuries, about 243,753 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 2.4% of ER visits involving this product end in hospital admission or transfer, and a small fraction (0.05%) result in fatality.

Beyond the hospital-sampled NEISS projections, this page also aggregates 2 consumer incident reports filed directly on SaferProducts.gov, plus 20 anonymized ER narratives - together forming a layered picture of how fishing (activity, apparel or equipment) 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)

50K55K60K65K70K75K80K 20052008201120142017202020232024 71K
Estimated annual emergency-room visits for Fishing (activity, Apparel Or Equipment), CPSC NEISS

Source: CPSC NEISS national injury estimates As of 2024

Source: CPSC NEISS national estimates Injuries represent ER-treated cases only

Who Gets Injured?

Age Group Male Female Total
0-4 25,152 13,857 39,009
5-14 199,913 43,840 243,753
15-24 162,776 32,998 195,774
25-34 132,626 32,414 165,040
35-44 141,236 39,652 180,888
45-54 154,536 41,423 195,959
55-64 128,540 31,356 159,896
65-74 88,823 19,481 108,378
75+ 40,219 7,734 47,981

Most Common Injuries

Body Part Diagnosis Est. Injuries
Finger Foreign Body 360,595
Hand Foreign Body 95,451
Finger Puncture 50,067
Face Foreign Body 48,185
Foot Foreign Body 41,662
Lower Arm Foreign Body 37,476
Lower Leg Foreign Body 35,443
Head Foreign Body 34,257
Hand Puncture 33,715
Finger Laceration 33,273
Hand Laceration 19,917
Foot Puncture 19,155
Toe Foreign Body 16,070
Ankle Strain, Sprain 14,329
All Parts Body Other 13,700

Severity Breakdown

Treated/examined And Released 96.6% (1.3M)
Treated And Admitted/hospitalized 1.9% (25,567)
Left Without Being Seen 0.8% (11,184)
Treated And Transferred 0.5% (6,398)
Held For Observation 0.1% (1,440)
Fatality Incl. Doa, Died In Er 0.1% (709)

ER Visit Narratives

Real anonymized emergency room reports from the CPSC NEISS database.

Age 17 · Male · Foot · Puncture · 2024

17 YOM STEPPED ON A CATFISH FIN AND INJURED FOOT DX PUNCTURE FOOT

Age 26 · Male · Finger · Foreign Body · 2024

26 YOM C/O INJ TO FINGER FROM A FISH HOOK AT HOME DX FOREIGN BODY THUMB-FISH HOOK REMOVED, PUNCTURE WOUND FINGER

Age 63 · Female · Finger · Foreign Body · 2024

63 YOF C/O INJ TO FINGER FROM A FISH HOOK AT HOME DX PUNCTURE WOUND FINGER, FOREIGN BODY FINGER- REMOVED

Age 33 · Male · Finger · Foreign Body · 2024

33YOM WAS GETTING OUT OF HIS VEHICLE AND WAS REACHING IN HIS CAR GRABBING HIS KEYS THAT WERE ON A HOOK IN HIS VIZOR AND THERE WAS ALSO A FISH HOOK IN THE VISOR AND IT STUCK HIM IN HIS POINTER FINGER OF HIS RIGHT HAND. DX: FISHHOOK INJURY TO RIGHT FINGER

Age 25 · Male · Upper Arm · Fracture · 2024

25YOM PRESENTS AFTER HE SLIPPED ON THE ICE WHILE ICE FISHING TONIGHT. DX: CLOSED FRACTURE OF SHAFT OF LEFT HUMERUS

Age 3 · Female · Foot · Foreign Body · 2024

3YOF STEPPED ON A FISH HOOK AND IT WENT INTO RIGHT FOOT DX: FOREIGN BODY FOOT

Age 56 · Male · Hand · Puncture · 2024

56YOM,HAND INJURY WAS FISHING AN GOT IT HOOK STABBED IN HAND,DX:HAND PUNCTURE

Age 7 · Male · Finger · Foreign Body · 2024

7YOM WAS FISHING AND GOT THE FISH HOOK EMBEDDED IN HIS LEFT FOURTH FINGER DX: FOREIGN BODY FINGER

Age 23 · Male · Upper Trunk · Foreign Body · 2024

23YOM WAS FISHING AND GOT THE FISH HOOK EMBEDDING INTO HIS UPPER BACK DX: FOREIGN BODY UPPER BACK

Age 37 · Male · Hand · Other · 2024

37 YOM. RT PALM STINGRAY STING WHILE PT WAS FISHING. DX: MARINE ANIMAL STING

Age 22 · Male · Shoulder · Other · 2024

22YOM,SLIPPED AN FELL WHILE FISHING AN LANDED ON ROCK AN FELT POP ON SHOULDER,DX:SHOULDER INJURY

Age 221 · Male · Finger · Foreign Body · 2024

21MOM WAS IN THE BACKSEAT OF MOMS CAR WHEN HE GRABBED A FISHING POLE CAUSING THE HOOK TO GO INTO RIGHT FIFTH FINGER DX: FOREIGN BODY FINGER

Consumer Incident Reports

Reports filed by consumers on SaferProducts.gov.

4/1/2016 · Incident, No Injury · Land 'N' Sea Distributing, Inc. · Ohio

I purchased a Seachoice Products Anchor Lead Chain, model 44101. This is a 48" x 3/16" galvanized chain with two 1/4" galvanized shackles. Both shackles are defective, and of such a defective level of quality that I now suspect whether the chain is any good at all. In any case, I would not trust my life or the life of my family to such shoddy products. Here's the problem: the "pin", which is much like a bolt, is threaded on one end. It goes through one "lug" of the horseshoe shaped shackle, and should engage the threads of the other "lug" of the shackle, where it can be tightened securely. On these shackles, the machining is so poor that the pins merely spin in the threaded lug and do not engage. These shackles are fit for decoration only-but only if one were to "glue" the pin in place. This is a MAJOR safety issue, as the intended use of the shackle is to connect an anchor line (usually nylon) to an anchor. The anchor is one of the primary safety devices on board any vessel. PLEASE LET THE PUBLIC KNOW ABOUT THIS JUNK. Thanks.

2/17/2015 · Incident, No Injury · ARDISAM INC · Minnesota

on january 27,2012 i purchased a eskimo mako m43 ice auger, ser #47296. from the first time i used the auger i always noticed a few drips of gasoline in the snow when i laid the auger down. february 9th, 2015 after filling the tank i noted the gas was leaking quite a bit from somewhere. i could not see where the gas was coming from, so i ordered a new gas tank from eskimo. when i received the new tank the first thing i noticed was the tank design was changed. after i replaced the tank, i filled the old tanki with water and found the leak was a nut imbedded in the plastic tank. since this is behind the bracket that holds the tank i could see why i couldn't tell where the gas was coming from. if i had been using the ice auger when the gas starting leaking as severly as it was, this would have most likely resulted in a fire and possible explosion. the warranty on this item is 2 years, which has expired; but it is now quite obvious to me that the tank was defective from the factory because of the changes made to the new tank. anyone who has the old type of tank is most likely in danger of becoming severly burned.

Product Recalls

Search for active and past recalls related to fishing (activity, apparel or equipment) on the CPSC website.

Compare beyond Sports Protective Equipment & Gear

Nationwide peers by danger score, ER volume & hospitalization

Three PlainSafety-derived comparison paths for Fishing (activity, Apparel Or Equipment): cross-group products nearest on danger score (41/100), estimated annual ER visits (66,834/yr), and hospitalization share (2.4%). Same-group neighbours stay in Related Products above.

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About this data

CPSC National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS) 2005–2024 and SaferProducts.gov consumer incident reports form the basis of this page. Injury estimates are based on a nationally representative probability sample of U.S. hospital emergency departments.

According to PlainSafety's CPSC NEISS corpus ranking, Fishing (activity, Apparel Or Equipment) ranks #137 of 838 scored CPSC product categories by PlainSafety danger score and #42 of 838 by 20-year estimated ER injury volume.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where does fishing (activity, apparel or equipment) rank on danger score versus ER volume?

Among 838 scored CPSC product categories, fishing (activity, apparel or equipment) ranks #137 by PlainSafety danger score (41/100) and #42 by 20-year estimated ER injury volume (66,834/yr). The two rankings come from the same NEISS extract and are not the same order.

What are the most common injuries from fishing (activity, apparel or equipment)?

The most common injury is foreign body to the finger, accounting for approximately 360,595 injuries over 20 years.

Are injuries from fishing (activity, apparel or equipment) increasing or decreasing?

Stable over 5 years.

Who is most at risk for fishing (activity, apparel or equipment) injuries?

The 5-14 age group accounts for the most injuries, with approximately 243,753 cases recorded over 20 years. Males are more frequently injured in this age group.

What happens when someone is injured by fishing (activity, apparel or equipment)?

Of all ER visits involving fishing (activity, apparel or equipment), approximately 2.4% result in hospital admission. The majority of patients (97.6%) are treated and released from the emergency department.

How can I report a safety problem with fishing (activity, apparel or equipment)?

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.

Data on Fishing (activity, Apparel Or Equipment) is compiled directly from CPSC NEISS and SaferProducts.gov records, current through 2024. See our methodology for details.

Disclaimer: This page is for informational purposes only and is not affiliated with the CPSC.

PlainSafety is rendered directly from U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission recall and incident records, no number is typed in by an editor. Product recall timelines and hazard labels are drawn from CPSC recall records for this product. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.