Rust Preventatives

What the CPSC Data Shows

Rust Preventatives (CPSC product code 961, in the Home Workshop Tools & Equipment category) generate an estimated 86 emergency-room visits every year in the United States, adding up to roughly 516 ER-treated injuries across the 14-year span from 2008 to 2021. PlainSafety derives a danger score of 23/100 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 rising by about 18% over the last five years, with the busiest year on record being 2008 (167 estimated ER visits) and the quietest 2019 (18 estimated visits).

The single most common ER diagnosis for rust preventatives is burn, chemical to the eyeball, accounting for approximately 168 visits across the 20-year NEISS window, followed by contusions, abr. to the foot (77 cases). The 45-54 age group absorbs the largest share of injuries, about 167 cases over the NEISS window, and females appear slightly more often than the opposite sex in that cohort. Severity outcomes from the NEISS disposition field show that 0.0% 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 8 anonymized ER narratives - together forming a layered picture of how rust preventatives 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.