CPSC NEISS · code 519

Television Tables Or Stands

Television Tables Or Stands: danger rank #256 of 838 is not ER-volume rank #182 of 838 (12,001 estimated ER visits a year; declining by about 17% over the last five years).

Home Structures & Construction Materials CPSC NEISS through 2024

Danger score versus ER volume

Danger score versus ER volume

According to CPSC NEISS 2005-2024, Television Tables Or Stands ranks #256 of 838 by danger score (38/100) at ER-volume #182 of 838 (12,001/yr). They are not the same ranking.

#256
danger rank of 838
#182
ER-volume rank of 838
38/100
danger score
12,001/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 (38/100) across 838 scored CPSC product categories

38 Around the middle lower than 30% of 838 product categories

scored CPSC product categories, bucketed by value

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Source CPSC NEISS, PlainSafety danger-score model · 2024

Composite verdict

Composite Safety Score: 61/100

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.

D
Dimension Value National percentile Weight applied Source
Injury severity (hospitalization + fatality blend) 6 51st 35% CPSC NEISS 20-year severity index
Annual ER injury volume 12,001 76th 30% CPSC NEISS estimated annual ER-treated injuries
5-year injury trend -17% 40th 15% CPSC NEISS 5-year % change in ER-treated injuries
Consumer incident reports 50 74th 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 240,039 estimated ER injuries land on the body

Body-part shares from the same CPSC NEISS injury_types extract for product code 519. Segments sum to 240,039 - 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 Home Structures & Construction Materials 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.

Home Structures & Construction Materials danger scores

1. Telephones Or Telephone A…45/1002. Computers (equipment And …42/1003. Televisions40/1004. Other Sound Recording, Re…39/1005. Television Tables Or Stan…38/1006. Record Players (self-cont…38/1007. Stereo Or Hi-fi Component…38/1008. Remote Control, Universal…37/100
Higher score = higher composite danger in this group. Peer set is other scored products sharing the same CPSC group.
0/100100/10038/100
PlainSafety danger score · Television Tables Or Stands

Source: CPSC NEISS danger-score model As of 2024

How this 38/100 score is built

The score is computed from four CPSC-derived factors for television tables or stands - no opinion, no editorializing:

  • Injury volume 12,001 ER visits/yr High volume
  • Severity (hospitalization rate) 5.9% Above median admission rate
  • Fatality rate 0.00% No recorded fatalities
  • 5-year trend-17%

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 television tables or stands are declining by about 17% over the last five years, with the busiest year on record being 2019 (14,801 estimated ER visits) and the quietest 2005 (8,400 estimated visits). The single most common ER diagnosis is laceration to the face, accounting for approximately 55,724 visits across the 20-year NEISS window, followed by internal injury to the head (38,817 cases). The 0-4 age group absorbs the largest share of injuries, about 101,197 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 5.9% of ER visits involving this product end in hospital admission or transfer.

Beyond the hospital-sampled NEISS projections, this page also aggregates 50 consumer incident reports filed directly on SaferProducts.gov, plus 20 anonymized ER narratives - together forming a layered picture of how television tables or stands 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)

8K10K12K14K16K 20052008201120142017202020232024 13K
Estimated annual emergency-room visits for Television Tables Or Stands, 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 64,384 36,813 101,197
5-14 23,535 13,319 36,854
15-24 5,152 7,400 12,580
25-34 4,981 7,397 12,378
35-44 4,209 6,025 10,234
45-54 4,752 6,295 11,047
55-64 5,407 7,304 12,711
65-74 4,603 8,950 13,553
75+ 9,856 19,616 29,472

Most Common Injuries

Body Part Diagnosis Est. Injuries
Face Laceration 55,724
Head Internal Injury 38,817
Head Laceration 26,586
Face Contusions, Abr. 10,254
Head Contusions, Abr. 7,774
Mouth Laceration 7,613
Foot Contusions, Abr. 4,865
Upper Trunk Contusions, Abr. 4,427
Toe Fracture 3,916
Ear Laceration 3,616
Upper Trunk Fracture 3,422
Head Concussion 3,336
Head Hematoma 2,174
Lower Trunk Fracture 1,995
Lower Trunk Contusions, Abr. 1,932

Severity Breakdown

Treated/examined And Released 92.1% (221,126)
Treated And Admitted/hospitalized 5.2% (12,384)
Left Without Being Seen 1.2% (2,779)
Held For Observation 0.8% (1,902)
Treated And Transferred 0.8% (1,843)
Fatality Incl. Doa, Died In Er 0.0% (5)

ER Visit Narratives

Real anonymized emergency room reports from the CPSC NEISS database.

Age 219 · Male · Face · Hematoma · 2024

19MOM RUNNING AROUND HOME, TRIP AND FALL HITTING FOREHEAD INTO TELEVISION STAND. + HEMATOMA DX FALL, FOREHEAD CONTUSION

Age 3 · Male · Ankle · Fracture · 2024

3 YOM TV STAND FELL ON THE HIS ANKLE/FOOT, C/O PAIN. DX: ANKLE FX, FOOT AND ANKLE INJURY.

Age 215 · Female · Face · Laceration · 2024

15MOF CHILD FELL OFF A BOUNCY HORSE AND FELL ONTO THE TV STAND, SMALL LACERATION TO FOREHEAD DX: FOREHEAD LACERATION

Age 71 · Male · Upper Trunk · Fracture · 2024

71YOM BROUGHT IN BY EMS COMPLAINS OF FALL ABOUT 0500. PATIENT STATES HE WAS WALKING WITH HIS CANE, HIT HIS TV STAND AND FELL ON HIS RIGHT SIDE. COMPLAINS OF SEVERE RIGHT RIB PAIN. DX:CLOSED FRACTURE OF MULTIPLE RIBS OF RIGHT SIDE.

Age 28 · Male · Face · Laceration · 2024

28YOM HIT FOREHEAD ON TV WALL MOUNT BRACKET, DX LAC TO FACE

Age 2 · Male · Ear · Laceration · 2024

2YOM WITH FALL IN WHICH PT WAS PLAYING WITH HIS COUSINS AND FELL AND HIT HEAD ON TV STAND. PT HAS SCRATCH BEHIND HIS EAR WITH LAC DX: INJURY OF LEFT EAR

Age 3 · Female · All Parts Body · Poisoning · 2024

3YOF PRESENTS WITH POSSIBLE MARIJUANA GUMMY INGESTION AFTER PT WAS AT AUNT'S HOUSE. STATES THE LID WAS LOOSE. 7-YEAR-OLD BROTHER SAW PT OPEN TV STAND DRAWER AND ATE SOME GUMMIES. PT LETHARGIC BUT AROUSABLE TO STIMULI. DX: ACUTE INGESTION OF CANNABINOID

Age 211 · Male · Face · Laceration · 2024

11MOM WAS STANDING AND CRUISING WHEN HE FELL ONTO BOTTOM LEVEL OF TV STAND, STRIKING HIS FACE. DX: LACERATION OF RIGHT CHEEK

Age 95 · Female · Lower Trunk · Fracture · 2024

95YOF PRESENTS AFTER SHE FELL ONTO RIGHT HIP AT HOME HIT THE BACK OF HER HEAD IN A TV STAND. DX: PAIN IN THE SIDE, FEMORAL NECK FRACTURE, FALL

Age 68 · Female · Head · Laceration · 2024

68YOF WAS GETTING READY TO LEAVE THE HOUSE AND FELL AND STRUCK HER HEAD ON A TV STAND DX; SCALP LACERATION, CLOSED HEAD INJURY

Age 13 · Male · Head · Laceration · 2024

13 YOM FELL INTO A TELEVISION STAND. DX: SCALP LACERATION

Age 6 · Male · Head · Laceration · 2024

6YOM HAD A TV STAND FALL ON TOP OF HIM AND STRUCK HIM IN THE HEAD DX: LACERATION SCALP

Consumer Incident Reports

Reports filed by consumers on SaferProducts.gov.

9/8/2016 · Incident, No Injury · IKEA North America Services, LLC · Michigan

I purchased a Besta TV stand from Ikea in early 2015, assembled it according to the packaged instructions, put an appropriately sized TV on it and have been using it without worry ever since. The TV stand is sturdy wood construction with a glass plate on top. At 11:30pm last night, I heard a loud crash, got out of bed and went downstairs to investigate. The glass topper had spontaneously and violently shattered, throwing shards of glass in a five foot radius around the TV stand! There had been no signs of damage when I installed this item, nor had the glass sustained any damage after installation. There is absolutely no reason the glass should have shattered like this. There were no injuries, but only because nobody was in the room when this incident occurred. If my six year old daughter had been awake, chances are she would have been badly injured because we spend much of our family and play time in the room where this furniture is located. I did my best to clean up, but after vacuuming several times, I am still coming across random shards of glass in my living room carpet. We will be wearing shoes in the living room until I am confident all the glass is gone. I picked glass out of my daughter's toys and found some on the couch across the room from the TV as well.

9/6/2019 · Incident, No Injury · Fitueyes Inc. · Arizona

A couple of years ago we purchased FITUEYES Universal tv Stand with Mount Two Shelves for 32inch to 65inch [REDACTED] Mount [REDACTED] through [REDACTED]. On 8/27/2019 without any warning the glass base exploded! I was sitting three feet from it at the time and fortunately I was not injured. My wife was on the phone with a friend at the time and the explosion was so loud her friend thought it was a gunshot. The screen on the [REDACTED] TV mounted on the stand cracked when it fell. This is a dangerous product and presents a safety hazard, especially to small children who may be around the TV stand. I found others online who had the same experience.

9/16/2017 · Incident, No Injury · TWIN STAR INTERNATIONAL INC · New Jersey

This is about our 3 tiered Bell O tv stand. The top tier of tempered glass shattered out of nowhere. There was no movement in the room as I was feeding my 7 month old daughter. The glass basically exploded into thousands of pieces, covering my living room floor. This is the main space where my daughter plays, so it took a great deal of cleanup as one can imagine. There was no reason for this to happen and I am very upset and concerned about the safety of this product.

9/10/2019 · Incident, No Injury · Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America, Inc. · Maryland

Tempered glass shelf in TV stand exploded shattering glass all over room. Fortunately, incident occurred overnight and no one was in the vicinity.

9/1/2019 · Incident, No Injury · Shaghal Ltd · Illinois

When my family moved into our current home in March 2019, we purchased a new tv wall mount (as listed on product itself: company Shaghal Ltd, model ONA16TM011E, manufacture date April 2017. Only warning labeled is to not install a Tv over recommended weight. I think it was purchased from Walmart). It was installed by an amateur, but an informed, experienced one and the product has every appearance of being designed for amateur installation. All installation instructions were followed. It is labeled as able to hold TV's weighing 66 lbs. Mine weighs in the mid 20s. The wall mount functioned well for 5 months. Last Tuesday, without warning and with no seeable cause, the screws holding the wall mount ripped out, sending the tv crashing to the floor. Moments before it happened, my youngest 2 children (1 and newly 4) had been seated on the floor playing where it fell, as it fell into the middle of my living room. In particular, my 1 year old had been seated for an extended period of time exactly where the force of the tv crashed down and only moved perhaps 60 seconds before it fell. Due to her age, she would likely have not moved out of the way in time and obviously would be vulnerable to a much more serious injury than an older person. I don't think saying it might have killed her is an exaggeration, and obviously it could injure even an adult, especially if a larger tv had been mounted at a higher level. I contacted the company through email to alert them to this danger and was simply told that my product could not be replaced for free as it was outside the warranty leading me to believe they have no concerns about the safety of this product. This is not my primary concern, but for what it's worth, my wall was decently damaged during this.

9/1/2016 · Injury, No First Aid or Medical Attention Received · Best Buy · Iowa

As I was sitting in my living room watching TV around 8:30pm on Tuesday, August 30, 2016, the glass the TV was sitting on shattered for unexplained reason. I bought the TV and stand together at Best Buy on February 13, 2010 as a set. The top shelf of the TV stand was recommended for the size of TV I was buying as the stand can hold up to 300lbs. I have been using the TV stand with the same TV since the day it was bought with no issues. The TV stand has not ever been used for anything else, or misused in anyway. When the glass randomly shattered, it flew across my living room, into my dining and kitchen area, as well as at myself as I was sitting on the couch about 5ft from it. The TV proceeded to fall forward onto my hardwood floors, which have suffered damage, and my TV no longer works. The two glass shelves below were also damaged. This could have been deadly had one of my kids, grandkids, myself, pets, or anyone else have been near the TV or in front of the TV on the floor. The TV stand manufacturer is init, the model is NT-C1140. This TV stand is still being sold. I feel this is a potential hazard to other consumers, especially for small children, pets, and anyone in general. My [REDACTED] TV only weighs 62.8lbs, so there is definitely not a weight issue and the TV was the only item sitting on the top shelf. I have my original receipt of purchase from Best Buy, this was the recommended TV stand for the TV I purchased. I also have several pictures of the incident immediately after this happening. I have saved the shattered glass, the TV stand frame, and the TV that does not work anymore. What I am asking is that I be reimbursed for replacement cost and for damages to my wood floors. I will submit a claim directly with the manufacturer as well. I have already talked to a store manager at Best Buy on Wednesday, August 31, 2016 and they were not willing to assist in any way. I feel this product should be removed and recalled.

8/5/2013 · Incident, No Injury · Haier America · California

The stand of my Haier's 42 inches TV was broken when I accidentally touch the TV. I thought I pushed it over but I was unable to make it stand again. Then, I realized the stand was broken. I did not get hurt. When I checked Haier's web site for availability of the stand, I noticed the recall. I registered immediately. I been checking the progress and always get the message that the replacement will be shipped in 3 to 5 weeks after the registration. However, after 7 weeks, the replacement hasn't arrived yet.

8/28/2016 · Incident, No Injury · Techcraft Manufacturing Inc · Indiana

On Sunday, August 14th, my husband and I were in a twilight sleep and were awakened by a loud noise. After investigating, we found that our TV stand shattered into a thousand pieces. There are three tiers of glass and the one that shattered was the top one that had the TV and sound bar on it. The instructions that we still have says that the top shelf holds 120 pounds and there was no where near that on it. The top piece of glass is thicker then the other two. I have a bag of glass to prove that we installed the top shelf with the correct piece. We bought this TV stand from HH Gregg on January 2, 2016 for $319.49. Thank God that our TV wasn't damaged. The only thing that did get damaged were two HDMI cables that was $53.47. On Monday, August 15th, my husband and I stopped at HH Gregg on Colerain Ave. in Cincinnati, Ohio and showed them the pictures and receipt. All they told us was that they were sorry and that we have to contact the manufacturer, Tech Craft, because it is over 30 days. I felt like saying that we did not buy the TV stand from the manufacturer, but I didn't. On Tuesday, August 16th, I called Tech Craft at 1-800-661-7030 and all I got was a voice mail. I did not leave a message. I decided to email them instead along with pictures and receipt of sale. I did not have the receipt at the time for the HDMI cables. On August 16th, I received an automated reply saying that they have received my email and will normally process it within 2 business days. As of today, August 28th, I have not heard from them. I have found 5 other cases of the same thing and just two this year. This is a serious issue and dangerous. This company should be recalling all of their TV stands before someone get's seriously injured or killed. I am afraid that a child or animal will get seriously injured. This glass shattered with such force that some glass stuck on the wall and blew off a large candle along with other items on the lower shelves. I would

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Nationwide peers by danger score, ER volume & hospitalization

Three PlainSafety-derived comparison paths for Television Tables Or Stands: cross-group products nearest on danger score (38/100), estimated annual ER visits (12,001/yr), and hospitalization share (5.9%). 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, Television Tables Or Stands ranks #256 of 838 scored CPSC product categories by PlainSafety danger score and #182 of 838 by 20-year estimated ER injury volume.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where does television tables or stands rank on danger score versus ER volume?

Among 838 scored CPSC product categories, television tables or stands ranks #256 by PlainSafety danger score (38/100) and #182 by 20-year estimated ER injury volume (12,001/yr). The two rankings come from the same NEISS extract and are not the same order.

What are the most common injuries from television tables or stands?

The most common injury is laceration to the face, accounting for approximately 55,724 injuries over 20 years.

Are injuries from television tables or stands increasing or decreasing?

Down 17% over 5 years.

Who is most at risk for television tables or stands injuries?

The 0-4 age group accounts for the most injuries, with approximately 101,197 cases recorded over 20 years. Males are more frequently injured in this age group.

What happens when someone is injured by television tables or stands?

Of all ER visits involving television tables or stands, approximately 5.9% result in hospital admission. The majority of patients (94.1%) are treated and released from the emergency department.

How can I report a safety problem with television tables or stands?

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 Television Tables Or Stands 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.