CPSC NEISS · code 281

Ranges Or Ovens, Not Specified

Ranges Or Ovens, Not Specified: danger rank #105 of 838 is not ER-volume rank #79 of 838 (32,001 estimated ER visits a year; declining by about 14% over the last five years).

Kitchen Cooking Appliances CPSC NEISS through 2024

Danger score versus ER volume

Danger score versus ER volume

According to CPSC NEISS 2005-2024, Ranges Or Ovens, Not Specified ranks #105 of 838 by danger score (42/100) at ER-volume #79 of 838 (32,001/yr). They are not the same ranking.

#105
danger rank of 838
#79
ER-volume rank of 838
42/100
danger score
32,001/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 (42/100) across 838 scored CPSC product categories

42 Higher than most more dangerous than 84% 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: 79/100

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) 9 72nd 35% CPSC NEISS 20-year severity index
Annual ER injury volume 32,001 90th 30% CPSC NEISS estimated annual ER-treated injuries
5-year injury trend -14% 45th 15% CPSC NEISS 5-year % change in ER-treated injuries
Consumer incident reports 1,268 100th 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 640,001 estimated ER injuries land on the body

Body-part shares from the same CPSC NEISS injury_types extract for product code 281. Segments sum to 640,001 - 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 Kitchen Cooking Appliances 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.

Kitchen Cooking Appliances danger scores

1. Refrigerators43/1002. Ranges Or Ovens, Not Spec…42/1003. Gas Ranges Or Ovens41/1004. Microwave Ovens40/1005. Other Ranges Or Ovens39/1006. Electric Knife Sharpeners39/1007. Dishwashers39/1008. Freezers (separate From R…37/100
Higher score = higher composite danger in this group. Peer set is other scored products sharing the same CPSC group.
0/100100/10042/100
PlainSafety danger score · Ranges Or Ovens, Not Specified

Source: CPSC NEISS danger-score model As of 2024

How this 42/100 score is built

The score is computed from four CPSC-derived factors for ranges or ovens, not specified - no opinion, no editorializing:

  • Injury volume 32,001 ER visits/yr Very high volume
  • Severity (hospitalization rate) 8.6% Above median admission rate
  • Fatality rate 0.05% Above-typical fatality rate
  • 5-year trend-14%

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 ranges or ovens, not specified are declining by about 14% over the last five years, with the busiest year on record being 2017 (38,092 estimated ER visits) and the quietest 2021 (27,854 estimated visits). The single most common ER diagnosis is burns, thermal to the hand, accounting for approximately 142,653 visits across the 20-year NEISS window, followed by burns, thermal to the finger (43,428 cases). The 0-4 age group absorbs the largest share of injuries, about 124,409 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 8.6% 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 1,268 consumer incident reports filed directly on SaferProducts.gov, plus 20 anonymized ER narratives - together forming a layered picture of how ranges or ovens, not specified 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)

25K30K35K40K 20052008201120142017202020232024 35K
Estimated annual emergency-room visits for Ranges Or Ovens, Not Specified, 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 75,854 48,471 124,409
5-14 22,416 23,297 45,713
15-24 30,018 36,167 66,185
25-34 33,852 48,438 82,290
35-44 30,159 43,940 74,099
45-54 31,834 45,536 77,370
55-64 27,501 38,784 66,285
65-74 14,158 30,787 44,945
75+ 15,456 43,261 58,717

Most Common Injuries

Body Part Diagnosis Est. Injuries
Hand Burns, Thermal 142,653
Finger Burns, Thermal 43,428
All Parts Body Anoxia 42,998
Lower Arm Burns, Thermal 39,423
Finger Laceration 27,364
Head Internal Injury 22,791
Lower Trunk Strain, Sprain 16,127
Hand Burn, Scald 15,102
Lower Trunk Other 10,216
Lower Arm Burn, Scald 10,055
Head Laceration 9,937
Face Laceration 9,661
Hand Laceration 9,568
Face Burns, Thermal 9,328
Foot Burn, Scald 8,279

Severity Breakdown

Treated/examined And Released 88.9% (568,879)
Treated And Admitted/hospitalized 6.5% (41,345)
Treated And Transferred 2.1% (13,759)
Left Without Being Seen 1.6% (10,431)
Held For Observation 0.8% (5,173)
Fatality Incl. Doa, Died In Er 0.1% (354)
Unknown, Not Stated 0.0% (60)

ER Visit Narratives

Real anonymized emergency room reports from the CPSC NEISS database.

Age 217 · Male · Hand · Burns, Thermal · 2024

17 MOM TOUCHED HOT OVEN AT HOME DX THERMAL BURN HAND

Age 12 · Female · Lower Arm · Burns, Thermal · 2024

12 YOF BURN ARM WHILE IN KITCHEN, BURT BY HOT STOVE DX THERMAL BURN FOREARM

Age 40 · Male · All Parts Body · Anoxia · 2024

40YOM WAS IN HIS HOUSE SLEEPING YESTERDAY, AND THERE WAS AN OVEN FIRE, PT PUT OUT THE FIRE AND THEN WENT TO SLEEP, WOKE UP WITH THROAT PAIN, RUNNY NOSE, COUGH, DX SMOKE INHALATION, F.D. ATTENDANCE NOT STATED

Age 46 · Female · Lower Trunk · Other · 2024

46YOF WAS PULLING A HEAVY PAN OUT OF THE OVEN TODAY AND HAD SUDDEN ONSET OF LOW BACK PAIN DX: SPASM OF MUSCLE OF LOWER BACK

Age 34 · Male · Hand · Burn, Scald · 2024

34YOM WITH BURN TO HAND AFTER COOKING AND FORGOT THE STOVE WAS ON AND HOT OIL SPILLED ON HIS HAND DX: PARTIAL THICKNESS BURN OF BACK OF RIGHT HAND

Age 215 · Female · Hand · Burns, Thermal · 2024

15 MOF MOTHER WAS COOKING AND PT TOUCHED HOT STOVE DX BURN HAND

Age 21 · Male · Head · Internal Injury · 2024

21YOM PT IN KITCHEN, TRIPPED OVER CAT & FELL INTO THE OVEN BREAKING GLASS, HIT HEAD DX: FALL

Age 47 · Male · Finger · Laceration · 2024

47 YOM WAS MOVING AN OVEN AND CUT HIS RIGHT RING FINGER ON METAL EDGE, DX: LACERATION OF FINGER

Age 28 · Female · Foot · Burn, Scald · 2024

28 YOF WAS TAKING FOOD OUT OF THE OVEN ON CHRISTMAS EVE. THE JUICES FROM THE RIBS SPLASHED ONTO HER RIGHT FOOT AND LEFT TOES. DX RIGHT FOOT/LEFT TOE BURNS

Age 84 · Male · Face · Laceration · 2024

84YOM HAD A SYNCOPE EVENT AT HOME AND FELL STRIKING HIS FACE ON THE OVEN DX: LACERATION FACE, SYNCOPE

Age 42 · Female · All Parts Body · Poisoning · 2024

42YOF WAS COOKING AND IT CAUGHT FIRE AND *** CAME TO PUT IT OUT. PT ENDORSES ETOH USE AND IS INTOX WITH SLURRED SPEECH. PT STATES SHE WAS MAKING A HAMBURGER AND THE STOVE CAUGHT ON FIRE. BAL 122 DX: ETOH INTOX

Age 2 · Female · Face · Laceration · 2024

2YOF RAN INTO THE CORNER OF A STOVE AT HOME STRIKING FACE DX: LACERATION FACE

Consumer Incident Reports

Reports filed by consumers on SaferProducts.gov.

9/9/2024 · Incident, No Injury · Sears Holdings Management Corporation · Maine

The consumer indicates that her oven range’s main burner knob sticks out and will turn on the turbo-boil with the slightest touch, many times unbeknownst to the consumer. This issue has happened at least a dozen times already, and on multiple occasions containers and plates have melted. The consumer has now removed the knob in order to avoid future incidents. The consumer states the cooktop is used approximately once or twice daily whereas the oven is used roughly two to three times per month. The consumer plans on keeping her oven range for at least the next thirty days in case an investigation ensues.

9/9/2024 · Incident, No Injury · SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS AMERICA, INC. (SEA) · Georgia

This is a glass top stove from Samsung M#NE58R9311SS/AA, S#NE58R9311SS/AA It is designed to overhang the counter top to prevent food and other items from falling between the stove and counter. In the middle of the night my daughter heard a loud pop and could not find the source until the next morning when she saw the front left corner of the glass top on the stove had broken and left sharp edges exposed.

9/9/2016 · Incident, No Injury · Sears Holdings Management Corporation · Utah

Our oven door glass exploded. Oven was on warm, not hot. We have never used the self-cleaning feature.

9/9/2011 · Incident, No Injury · Sears Holdings Management Corporation · Washington

WARNING Kenmore Range model 790.96613409 has unpredictable fire danger flaw in control panel The other day we joined what we never knew was a large group and had a fire in our Kenmore Range caused by the electronic clock/timer, oven control. This Kenmore tagged range was built by Frigidaire for Sears and is model number 790.96613409. I loved this range and it cost us a lot of money. In fact I have been a Sears guy for 50 years! Our ordeal began when the Kenmore Range's electronic panel (with oven and clock/timer controls) shorted out suddenly in it's insides and then burst into flames! There was lots of smoke and a shower of sparks spraying up the wall behind and above the range, within the several long seconds it took for the houses main circuit breaker panel to trip off the ranges electricity! This was incredibly terrifying and you might imagine my ( I will be polite ) SURPRISE, to research the internet about the burnt to a crisp clock/timer oven control, only to discover that there have been an incredible number of these fires for several years and all over the country! AND the replacement timer control offered by Sears, still to this day...is...none other ...than part number 316418702, made by the company called ( now get this ) "SPITFIRE Controls Inc. This name couldn't have described my experience with this product any better. [REDACTED}

9/8/2020 · Incident, No Injury · BSH HOME APPLIANCES CORPORATION · New York

(09/05/2020)The consumer has a safety concern in reference to the oven door. She stated that hot steam is coming from the top when the oven door is closed. The consumer has only used two of the three settings and it happens on both the basic and convection settings. (09/08/2020)The consumer contacted the firm. They are going to schedule a repair visit.

9/8/2017 · Incident, No Injury · GE Appliances, a Haier company · Kansas

I am a fire investigator for the Kansas City Kansas Fire Department. I recently investigated an oven fire in an apartment. The resident stated he smelled something hot in his apartment when he discovered a fire in his oven. He looked and verified all the controls of the oven and stove top were turned off. The did not see any lights on the control panel indicating anything was on. He opened the oven door and used a dry chemical fire extinguisher to attempt to extinguish the fire. He then called 911. The fire crew arrived on the scene and saw smoke in the apartment. They got to the oven and verified all the controls were in the off position. They also verified the door lock was in the open position. They could see the inside of the oven glowing. The oven did not stop glowing until they unplugged it from the 220 volt outlet. The resident stated he had not used the oven for the last month. The owner of the apartment stated he thought the oven was about 7 years old.

9/8/2011 · Incident, No Injury · Sears Holdings Management Corporation · Massachusetts

The glass door on my Kenmore wall oven just shattered for no reason! No one was even near it.

9/7/2022 · Injury, No First Aid or Medical Attention Received · SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS AMERICA, INC. (SEA) · New York

Samsung slide in range model # NE58K9500SG/AA glass stovetop has cracked and been replaced twice. Both times the stovetop was not being used and nothing touching it. The last time the Samsung tech said it was physical damage and not a defect which was totally false. Samsung replaced the top the first time but refused to replace it a second time. My wife was wiping down the top with a sponge and received an electric shock when water fell into the stove through a crack. We are continuing to use the stove because we cannot afford a replacement at this time.

Showing 8 of 1,268 reports.

Product Recalls

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Nationwide peers by danger score, ER volume & hospitalization

Three PlainSafety-derived comparison paths for Ranges Or Ovens, Not Specified: cross-group products nearest on danger score (42/100), estimated annual ER visits (32,001/yr), and hospitalization share (8.6%). 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, Ranges Or Ovens, Not Specified ranks #105 of 838 scored CPSC product categories by PlainSafety danger score and #79 of 838 by 20-year estimated ER injury volume.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where does ranges or ovens, not specified rank on danger score versus ER volume?

Among 838 scored CPSC product categories, ranges or ovens, not specified ranks #105 by PlainSafety danger score (42/100) and #79 by 20-year estimated ER injury volume (32,001/yr). The two rankings come from the same NEISS extract and are not the same order.

What are the most common injuries from ranges or ovens, not specified?

The most common injury is burns, thermal to the hand, accounting for approximately 142,653 injuries over 20 years.

Are injuries from ranges or ovens, not specified increasing or decreasing?

Down 14% over 5 years.

Who is most at risk for ranges or ovens, not specified injuries?

The 0-4 age group accounts for the most injuries, with approximately 124,409 cases recorded over 20 years. Males are more frequently injured in this age group.

What happens when someone is injured by ranges or ovens, not specified?

Of all ER visits involving ranges or ovens, not specified, approximately 8.6% result in hospital admission. The majority of patients (91.4%) are treated and released from the emergency department.

How can I report a safety problem with ranges or ovens, not specified?

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 Ranges Or Ovens, Not Specified 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.