Seven-Year KID Checkup on SaferProducts.gov 6 Table 4. Breakdown of incident reports by product hazard and age. Reports published on SaferProducts.gov between March 11, 2011 and July 11, 2018. Hazard 0 to 2 3 to 5 6 to 14 15 to 18 Unspecified Total Bodily Injury 1218 389 429 21 379 2436 Burn/Fire 81 62 82 10 199 434 Choking 580 37 10 0 172 799 Drowning 31 8 1 0 4 44 Entrapment 446 70 26 0 26 568 Ingestion 113 42 36 0 54 245 Mold 189 3 1 0 102 295 Rash/Reaction 222 41 36 0 15 314 Strangulation 76 29 3 0 24 132 Suffocation 99 6 0 0 47 152 Other 64 9 14 3 38 128 Total 3119 696 638 34 1060 5547 Injuries and Deaths Forty-seven percent of reports involving children 18 and younger published on SaferProducts.gov involved an injury or death of a child. Sixty-seven percent of the injuries required medical attention (ranging from emergency department visit to at-home treatment). Forty-three deaths are reported on the database. Thirty-five of the reported deaths (81%) involved children under the age of three. Table 5. Incident severity by age group reported to SaferProducts.gov between (dates in search). Death Incident Injury Concern Unknown Total 0 to 2 35 1431 1627 6 20 3119 3 to 5 2 278 407 6 3 696 6 to 14 5 209 421 1 2 638 15 to 18 0 17 17 0 0 34 Unknown 1 698 68 86 207 1060 Total 43 2633 2540 99 232 5547 Use of SaferProducts.gov In analyzing the effectiveness of SaferProducs.gov in terms of children’s product safety, SaferProducts.gov has seen a downshift in the use of its report database. Since the website was released in March of 2011, we began our analysis of annual trends in 2012, the first full year that Saferproducts.gov was live. In 2012, 1,156 reports were posted regarding unsafe children’s products, the following year 979 reports were published. Although the first two years of the website may be heavily skewed due to retrospective product claims, the decreasing number of