CPSC NEISS · code 4071

Floor Lamps Or Table Lamps, Electric (excl Halogen)

Floor Lamps Or Table Lamps, Electric (excl Halogen): danger rank #313 of 838 is not ER-volume rank #232 of 838 (8,085 estimated ER visits a year; declining by about 24% over the last five years).

Floors, Walls & Ceilings CPSC NEISS through 2024

Danger score versus ER volume

Danger score versus ER volume

According to CPSC NEISS 2005-2024, Floor Lamps Or Table Lamps, Electric (excl Halogen) ranks #313 of 838 by danger score (37/100) at ER-volume #232 of 838 (8,085/yr). They are not the same ranking.

#313
danger rank of 838
#232
ER-volume rank of 838
37/100
danger score
8,085/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 (37/100) across 838 scored CPSC product categories

37 Around the middle lower than 37% 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: 62/100

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) 6 54th 35% CPSC NEISS 20-year severity index
Annual ER injury volume 8,085 68th 30% CPSC NEISS estimated annual ER-treated injuries
5-year injury trend -24% 29th 15% CPSC NEISS 5-year % change in ER-treated injuries
Consumer incident reports 163 90th 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 161,719 estimated ER injuries land on the body

Body-part shares from the same CPSC NEISS injury_types extract for product code 4071. Segments sum to 161,719 - 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 Floors, Walls & Ceilings 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.

Floors, Walls & Ceilings danger scores

1. Beds Or Bedframes, Other …55/1002. Chairs, Other Or Not Spec…51/1003. Ladders, Other Or Not Spe…49/1004. Bedding, Not Specified49/1005. Tables (excl. Baby Chang…47/1006. Stools, Other Or Not Spec…44/1007. Scales, Not Elec. Or Batt…44/1008. Floor Lamps Or Table Lamp…37/100
Higher score = higher composite danger in this group. Peer set is other scored products sharing the same CPSC group.
0/100100/10037/100
PlainSafety danger score · Floor Lamps Or Table Lamps, Electric (excl Halogen)

Source: CPSC NEISS danger-score model As of 2024

How this 37/100 score is built

The score is computed from four CPSC-derived factors for floor lamps or table lamps, electric (excl halogen) - no opinion, no editorializing:

  • Injury volume 8,085 ER visits/yr Above median volume
  • Severity (hospitalization rate) 6.3% Above median admission rate
  • Fatality rate 0.01% Low fatality rate
  • 5-year trend-24%

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 floor lamps or table lamps, electric (excl halogen) are declining by about 24% over the last five years, with the busiest year on record being 2011 (10,855 estimated ER visits) and the quietest 2024 (5,425 estimated visits). The single most common ER diagnosis is internal injury to the head, accounting for approximately 15,980 visits across the 20-year NEISS window, followed by laceration to the head (14,580 cases). The 0-4 age group absorbs the largest share of injuries, about 32,932 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 6.3% of ER visits involving this product end in hospital admission or transfer, and a small fraction (0.01%) result in fatality.

Beyond the hospital-sampled NEISS projections, this page also aggregates 163 consumer incident reports filed directly on SaferProducts.gov, plus 20 anonymized ER narratives - together forming a layered picture of how floor lamps or table lamps, electric (excl halogen) 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)

4K6K8K10K12K 20052008201120142017202020232024 5K
Estimated annual emergency-room visits for Floor Lamps Or Table Lamps, Electric (excl Halogen), 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 20,913 12,019 32,932
5-14 13,578 11,978 25,556
15-24 9,356 7,816 17,172
25-34 7,783 8,510 16,293
35-44 5,932 6,507 12,439
45-54 3,705 7,539 11,244
55-64 5,498 7,687 13,185
65-74 3,450 7,825 11,275
75+ 6,196 15,419 21,615

Most Common Injuries

Body Part Diagnosis Est. Injuries
Head Internal Injury 15,980
Head Laceration 14,580
Face Laceration 14,344
Finger Laceration 11,246
Hand Laceration 10,020
Foot Laceration 5,410
Lower Leg Laceration 4,656
Lower Arm Laceration 4,126
Head Contusions, Abr. 3,713
Face Contusions, Abr. 3,324
All Parts Body Electric Shock 3,159
Hand Burns, Thermal 2,506
Toe Laceration 2,406
Head Concussion 2,397
Lower Trunk Fracture 2,227

Severity Breakdown

Treated/examined And Released 92.0% (148,775)
Treated And Admitted/hospitalized 5.0% (8,036)
Left Without Being Seen 1.4% (2,343)
Treated And Transferred 0.9% (1,445)
Held For Observation 0.7% (1,103)
Fatality Incl. Doa, Died In Er 0.0% (17)

ER Visit Narratives

Real anonymized emergency room reports from the CPSC NEISS database.

Age 75 · Female · Knee · Puncture · 2024

75 YOF PRESENTS WITH KNEE PAIN AND SWELLING SINCE YESTERDAY AROUND NOON, REPORTS THAT SHE CUT HER KNEE YESTERDAY WHEN A LAMP BROKE. DX: PUNCTURE WOUND OF R KNEE.

Age 4 · Female · Toe · Contusions, Abr. · 2024

4 YOF DROPPED A LAMP ONTO TOE DX CONTUSION TOE

Age 84 · Female · Head · Laceration · 2024

84 YOF INJ HEAD LAMP FELL OVER STRUCK BACK OF HEAD AT HOME DX LAC SCALP ;

Age 57 · Male · Head · Internal Injury · 2024

57YOM BROUGHT IN BY EMS AFFTER BEING HIT IN THE HEAD WITH A LAMP 2 HOURS AGO BY HIS BABY'S MOTHER.. STATES HE LOST CONSCIOUSNESS A LITTLE BIT. VISIBLE KNOT OF FOREHEAD. DX: INJURY OF HEAD, ACUTE POST-TRAUMATIC HEADACHE

Age 32 · Female · Finger · Laceration · 2024

32YOF PATIENT REPORTS THAT SHE CUT HER FINGER ON A LAMP DX: LACERATION OF LEFT LITTLE FINGER WITHOUT FOREIGN BODY WITHOUT DAMAGE TO NAIL

Age 72 · Female · Eyeball · Other · 2024

72 YOF PRESENTS WITH RIGHT EYE REDNESS. YESTERDAY SHE STRUCK HER HEAD ON A LAMP AT A RESTAURANT BUT DID NOT APPEAR TO HAVE A SUBSTANTIAL INJURY. NO LOC. TODAY SHE AWOKE WITH REDNESS IN HER EYE. DX SUBCONJUNCTIVAL HEMORRHAGE OF THE RIGHT EYE

Age 74 · Female · Head · Concussion · 2024

74YOF C/O CONCUSSION S/P PT STATES A LAMP FELL ON HER HEAD WHILE AT THE *** STORE WHEN SHE TRIED TO GET THE LAMP DOWN OFF OF A SHELF. THE LAMP HAD A HEAVY MARBLE BASE. DX: CONCUSSION

Age 49 · Male · Head · Internal Injury · 2024

49 YOM WAS CROSSING THE STREET CARRYING A LAMP AND WAS POSSIBLY HIT BY A BUS, + LACERATION TO HAND. DX: HEAD TRAUMA

Age 96 · Male · Lower Trunk · Fracture · 2024

96 YOM BIBA FOR LEFT HIP PAIN AFTER FALL WHEN HE GOT UP TO TURN OFF THE LIGHT, DX: HIP FRACTURE

Age 47 · Female · All Parts Body · Anoxia · 2024

47 YOF WITH SMOKE INHALATION AFTER BEING INVOLVED IN A FIRE AT A FRIEND'S APARTMENT, SHE PLUGGED IN A LAMP THAT HAD SOME EXPOSED WIRES AND IT CAUGHT FIRE, WAS IN THE ROOM A PROLONGED AMOUNT OF TIME TRYING TO GATHER HER MEDICATIONS, COHGB4.4, UNKNOWN FIRE DEPARTMENT. DX: SMOKE EXPOSURE

Age 86 · Female · Shoulder · Other · 2024

86YOF TO ER POST FALL OUT OF WHEELCHAIR ONTO RIGHT SHOULDER, PT WAS REACHING TO TURN A LAMP OFF WHEN SHE FELL FROM WHEELCHAIR, NO HEAD INJURY OR NECK PAIN, PT HAS RIGHT SHOULDER PAIN DX FALL, RECURENT FALL, RIGHT SHOULDER PAIN

Age 36 · Male · Hand · Laceration · 2024

36YOM PATIENT REPORTS HE WAS TRYING TO KILL A FLY WHEN HE SWATTED A PLASTIC LAMPSHADE THAT BROKE, HE SUSTAINED A LACERATION TO THE PALM OF HIS HAND. DX: LACERATION OF HAND

Consumer Incident Reports

Reports filed by consumers on SaferProducts.gov.

9/7/2017 · Incident, No Injury · WBM LLC · Minnesota

Bought a himalayan salt lamp from Bed Bath and Beyond around christmas time. Didn't use it a whole lot and had been off for a few months. Went to plug it in again and within the hour, the dimmer switch melted and the lamp went out. The brand is wbm international himalayan glow. As far as I can tell, this brand was not part of the massive recall, but has the same problem as the ones that were recalled. The dimmer switch is a zing ear ZE-04. Cannot find if the recalled lamps uses the same dimmer switch as this.

9/7/2011 · Injury, First Aid Received by Non-Medical Professional · L G Sourcing, Inc. · South Carolina

My 6 year old daughter was burned on her hand and leg. She was reading in bed like she does every night. She went to turn off her Light when the cord detached from the light and the cord burnt her hand and leg. This was just bought at Lowes with in the month. After the yelling and cleaning the black marks with cold water I checked the other matching light we have and noticed that where it connects to the light it was frayed and you can see exposed copper. I took them back to Lowes first thing this morning and they saw what I saw and even pulled one off the shelf and saw the same thing at the connection point of the new one. I believe these are not only a burn issue but a HUGE fire hazard in a home. Since the one of switch is connected to the wire it is only a matter of time that others don't get detached too. Lowes Item Number is 352579 LED CLIP LIGHT Please get these off their shelves.

9/6/2020 · Incident, No Injury · Ethan Allen Global, Inc. · United States

The table lamp was plugged into a bedroom wall socket when brought home after purchase. On the date of the incident, it was turned on for a period of between 5-10 minutes by its rheostat. When I went to turn it off the Rheostat was hot to the touch, I dropped it and called my spouse over to look at it. In the minute it took for my spouse to get to the lamp the rheostat started to smoke. The lamp was then unplugged and monitored until the rheostat had cooled. Lamp was purchased at Ethan Allan and used intermittently for around 3 months at the time of the incident. Model 09-6539 date code [REDACTED] identification [REDACTED] UL file NO:[REDACTED]. UL LISTED portable Luminare ISSUE no:[REDACTED]

9/5/2016 · Incident, No Injury · Restoration Hardware · District of Columbia

Plugging in lamp resulted in spark and affected electrical throughout room - momentary power outage. Black burn marks on plug.

9/28/2012 · Incident, No Injury · Target · New York

I purchased a floor lamp in 2009 from Target. I have always used it in my children's room. Today I went to turn it off and it would not turn off. The twist knob felt hot. I unplugged the lamp and tilted it down to see what was happening. It was on fire. I could see a blue flame inside the lamp head underneath where the bulb is screwed in. Thankfully this happened when I was in the room and not my daughter.

9/25/2019 · Incident, No Injury · BHH LLC · Colorado

I want to report a faulty ballast in a Bell and Howell flourescent floor lamp, which burned out and left a smoke stain on the carpet. Luckily it did not start a fire outside of the lamp, but the next person may not be so lucky. It was plugged into a timer switch to help with security. Some time in the last few months it stopped working. I removed the ballast from the base and found that the cover was melted and the inside was charred. It's a 27 Watt lamp very much like ones available for sale online; https://www.amazon.com/Bell-Howell-Sunlight-Desk-Lamp/dp/B000RWPY98 It is some years old, but I don't know how many.

9/25/2017 · Incident, No Injury · Walmart Stores Inc. · Wisconsin

Purchased Your Zone 5-light Floor Lamp. On Friday morning, I had turned the light on and begin my day as normal. Within about a half an hour I smelt burning so I checked everything in my home and eventually found out that the shade that were on the lamp which were not touching the light bulbs were burning and had holes in them. This could have ended very differently and something should be done about it

9/23/2025 · Incident, No Injury · IKEA North America Services, LLC · Illinois

A fire broke out in our young daughters bedroom in the middle of the night where an IKEA LAUTERS floor lamp was being used. The local Fire Department determined the likely cause was a pinched electrical cord in the lamp, which failed and ignited combustibles. The lamp was completely destroyed along with the containing room, and the rest of our house was damaged. My wife and I and our children continue to suffer trauma from the incident and the disruption to our lives in the ten months that followed.

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Product Recalls

Search for active and past recalls related to floor lamps or table lamps, electric (excl halogen) on the CPSC website.

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Nationwide peers by danger score, ER volume & hospitalization

Three PlainSafety-derived comparison paths for Floor Lamps Or Table Lamps, Electric (excl Halogen): cross-group products nearest on danger score (37/100), estimated annual ER visits (8,085/yr), and hospitalization share (6.3%). 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, Floor Lamps Or Table Lamps, Electric (excl Halogen) ranks #313 of 838 scored CPSC product categories by PlainSafety danger score and #232 of 838 by 20-year estimated ER injury volume.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where does floor lamps or table lamps, electric (excl halogen) rank on danger score versus ER volume?

Among 838 scored CPSC product categories, floor lamps or table lamps, electric (excl halogen) ranks #313 by PlainSafety danger score (37/100) and #232 by 20-year estimated ER injury volume (8,085/yr). The two rankings come from the same NEISS extract and are not the same order.

What are the most common injuries from floor lamps or table lamps, electric (excl halogen)?

The most common injury is internal injury to the head, accounting for approximately 15,980 injuries over 20 years.

Are injuries from floor lamps or table lamps, electric (excl halogen) increasing or decreasing?

Down 24% over 5 years.

Who is most at risk for floor lamps or table lamps, electric (excl halogen) injuries?

The 0-4 age group accounts for the most injuries, with approximately 32,932 cases recorded over 20 years. Males are more frequently injured in this age group.

What happens when someone is injured by floor lamps or table lamps, electric (excl halogen)?

Of all ER visits involving floor lamps or table lamps, electric (excl halogen), approximately 6.3% result in hospital admission. The majority of patients (93.7%) are treated and released from the emergency department.

How can I report a safety problem with floor lamps or table lamps, electric (excl halogen)?

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 Floor Lamps Or Table Lamps, Electric (excl Halogen) 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.