U.S. consumer product injury statistics

Key findings

Standalone, citable statements from the linked NEISS extract. Free to reuse with attribution to PlainSafety (CC0 data; cite the page).

• 15.5M estimated consumer-product emergency-room visits a year on average across 2005-2024. The 2024 year total is 17.2 million. These are NEISS national estimates, not exact counts.
• 838 of 1,124 product categories in this rebuild carry an injury score. The remaining 286 categories are in the catalog without a safety_scores row, so they are not in the danger ranking.
• 4.3M/yr estimated ER visits attach to Building Materials & Home Structures (42 categories), 27.8% of the 15.5 million annual average. Member categories below sit inside this group total; they are not extra.
• 1.6M average annual ER visits for Floors Or Flooring Materials, the highest-volume category (10.2% of the national average; danger score 59). Stairs Or Steps is second at 1.2M, inside the same Building Materials & Home Structures group. Volume leadership is not the same as the highest danger score.
• 71 is the highest PlainSafety danger score, on General Home Or Room Involvement In Fires (14,776 average annual ER visits; 25.1% hospitalized among NEISS cases). The score mixes volume, hospitalization, and trend, so a modest-volume fire code can outrank floors.
• 27.4% of NEISS-recorded ER visits for Crutches, Canes Or Walkers were hospitalized (100,182 average annual visits). That is the highest hospitalization share among categories with at least 1,000 visits. It is not a share of all product users.
• 27 of 838 scored categories have a hospitalization share of at least 20% among NEISS cases. The 20-point cut is a count inside the scored set, not a separate population.
• +465% 5-year injury trend for First Aid Equipment (24,542 average annual visits). Restricted to categories with at least 10,000 visits so a small-base percent does not read as a national surge.