Abstract: ObjectiveTo explore epidemiological characteristics of product-related injury and to provide the basis for making product injury interventions. MethodsThe Fifth Affiliated (Zhuhai) Hospital of Zunyi Medical College in Doumen District, Zhuhai City was taken as a sentinel surveillance hospital and information about the first confirmed cases diagnosed as the injury caused by products was collected from 2012 to 2015. Surveillance contents included general information (name, gender, age, household registration, educational level, occupation), basic situation of the injury (injury time, place, cause, activity when the injury occurred), and the product-related information of injury. ResultsA total of 19 342 cases of injury associated with products were found among 48 003 injury cases reported by the hospital from 2012 to 2015, accounting for 40.3% of the total injuries. Of all the cases of product-related injury, 13 743 were males and 5 599 females, with a male to female ratio of 2.45∶1; the highest proportion of product-related injury was in group aged 15-44 years (71.2%), 45.9% had educational level of junior high school, 21.9% engaged in business services and 19.0% in production of transport, and 49.3% had household registration of the city (county) (all P < 0.01). The top three products involved with injury were transportation tools (66.0%), household wares (12.8%), and food/drink/drugs and related products (7.0%). The top three leading causes were road traffic injuries (64.6%), knife/sharp instrument injury (14.7%), and poisoning (8.8%). Injury locations mainly focused on the road/street (66.3%), at homes (9.8%), and public residences (8.4%). Main activities when the injury occurred were driving and riding vehicles (54.5%) and leisure (31.9%).ConclusionThe product-related injury was mainly the road traffic injury by means of transportation in Doumen District, Zhuhai. The group with local household registration, male, aged 15-44 years, educational level of junior high school, engaged in business services and production transportation were the main victims of the product-related injury. The prevention and control of product-related injury should be focused on the transportation.