[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 111 (Friday, June 7, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48691-48693]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-12464]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
[Docket No. OSHA-2012-0017]
Reports of Injuries to Employees Operating Mechanical Power
Presses; Extension of the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB)
Approval of Information Collection (Paperwork) Requirements
AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Labor.
ACTION: Request for public comments.
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SUMMARY: OSHA solicits public comments concerning the proposal to
extend the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) approval of the
information collection requirements specified in the Reports of
Injuries to Employees Operating Mechanical Power Presses.
DATES: Comments must be submitted (postmarked, sent, or received) by
August 6, 2024.
ADDRESSES:
Electronically: You may submit comments and attachments
electronically at https://www.regulations.gov, which is the Federal
eRulemaking Portal. Follow the instructions online for submitting
comments.
Docket: To read or download comments or other material in the
docket, go to https://www.regulations.gov. Documents in the
docket are listed in the https://www.regulations.gov index; however,
some information (e.g., copyrighted material) is not publicly available
to read or download through the websites. All submissions, including
copyrighted material, are available for inspection through the OSHA
Docket Office. Contact the OSHA Docket Office at (202) 693-2350 (TTY
(877) 889-5627) for assistance in locating docket submissions.
Instructions: All submissions must include the agency name and OSHA
docket number (OSHA-2012-0017) for the Information Collection Request
(ICR). OSHA will place all comments, including any personal
information, in the public docket, which may be made available online.
Therefore, OSHA cautions interested parties about submitting personal
information such as social security numbers and birthdates.
For further information on submitting comments, see the ``Public
Participation'' heading in the section of this notice titled
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Seleda Perryman, Directorate of
Standards and Guidance, OSHA, U.S. Department of Labor; telephone (202)
693-2222.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The Department of Labor, as part of the continuing effort to reduce
paperwork and respondent (i.e., employer) burden, conducts a
preclearance consultation program to provide the public with an
opportunity to comment on proposed and continuing information
collection requirements in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act
of 1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)). This program ensures that
information is in the desired format, reporting burden (time and costs)
is minimal, the collection instruments are clearly understood, and
OSHA's estimate of the information collection burden is accurate. The
Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (OSH Act) (29 U.S.C. 651 et
seq.) authorizes information collection by employers as necessary or
appropriate for enforcement of the OSH Act or for developing
information regarding the causes and prevention of occupational
injuries, illnesses, and accidents (29 U.S.C. 657). The OSH Act also
requires that OSHA obtain such information with minimum burden upon
employers, especially those operating small businesses, and to reduce
to the maximum extent feasible unnecessary duplication of effort in
obtaining information (29 U.S.C. 657).
The following sections describe who uses the information collected
under each requirement, as well as how they use it. In the event that a
worker is injured while operating a mechanical power press, 29 CFR
1910.217(g) requires the employer to report, within 30 days of the
occurrence, all point-of-operation injuries to the operators or other
employees to either the Director of the Directorate of Standards and
Guidance at OSHA, U.S. Department of Labor, Washington, DC 20210 or
electronically at http://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/mechanical.html; or
to the State agency administering a plan approved by the Assistant
Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health. This information
includes the employer's and worker's name(s), workplace address and
location; injury sustained; task being performed when the injury
occurred; number of operators required for the operation and the number
of operators provided with controls and safeguards; cause of the
incident; type of clutch, safeguard(s), and feeding method(s) used; and
means used to actuate the press stroke. These reports are a source of
up-to-date information on power press machines. Specifically, this
information identifies the equipment used and conditions associated
with these injuries.
OSHA's Mechanical Power Press injury reporting requirement at
1910.217(g) is a separate injury reporting requirement from OSHA's
severe injury reporting requirements which are part of 1904.39. Under
1904.39, employers must, within 24 hours, report to OSHA any work-
related injury requiring hospitalization as well as work-related
incidents resulting in an amputation or loss of an eye. The Mechanical
Power Press Standard requires employers to report all injuries
involving operation of a power press to OSHA or an appropriate state
agency within 30 days. Injuries that must be reported under 1910.217(g)
include those that are also reportable under 1904.39 as well as those
that are recordable under the recordkeeping standard (29 CFR 1904).
II. Special Issues for Comment
OSHA has a particular interest in comments on the following issues:
Whether the proposed information collection requirements
are necessary for the proper performance of the agency's functions to
protect workers, including whether the information is useful;
The accuracy of OSHA's estimate of the burden (time and
costs) of the information collection requirements, including the
validity of the methodology and assumptions used;
The quality, utility, and clarity of the information
collected; and
Ways to minimize the burden on employers who must comply;
for example, by using automated or other technological information, and
transmission techniques.
III. Proposed Actions
OSHA is requesting that OMB extend the approval of the information
collection requirements contained in Reports of Injuries to Employees
Operating Mechanical Power Presses. The agency is requesting an
adjustment decrease in burden hours amount from 390 to 320, a total
reduction of 70 burden hours because there is a decrease in the
estimated number of injury reports caused by mechanical power presses
(from 1,170 to 960).
OSHA will summarize the comments submitted in response to this
notice and will include this summary in the request to OMB to extend
the approval of the information collection requirements.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Title: Reports of Injuries to Employees Operating Mechanical Power
Presses.
OMB Control Number: 1218-0070.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profits.
Number of Respondents: 960.
Number of Responses: 1,920.
Frequency of Responses: On occasion.
Average Time per Response: Varies.
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 320.
Estimated Cost (Operation and Maintenance): $0.
IV. Public Participation--Submission of Comments on this Notice and
Internet Access to Comments and Submissions
You may submit comments in response to this document as follows:
(1) electronically at https://www.regulations.gov, which is the Federal
eRulemaking Portal; or (2) by facsimile (fax), if your comments,
including attachments, are not longer than 10 pages you may fax them to
the OSHA Docket Office at 202-693-1648. All comments, attachments, and
other material must identify the agency name and the OSHA docket number
for the ICR (OSHA-2012-0017). You may supplement electronic submission
by uploading document files electronically.
Comments and submissions are posted without change at https://www.regulations.gov. Therefore, OSHA cautions commenters about
submitting personal information such as social security numbers and
dates of birth.
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Although all submissions are listed in the https://www.regulations.gov
index, some information (e.g., copyrighted material) is not publicly
available to read or download from this website. All submission,
including copyrighted material, are available for inspection and
copying at the OSHA Docket Office. Information on using the https://www.regulations.gov website to submit comments and access the docket is
available at the website's ``User Tips'' link.
Contact the OSHA Docket Office at (202) 693-2350, (TTY (877) 889-
5627) for information about materials not available from the website,
and for assistance in using the internet to locate docket submissions.
V. Authority and Signature
James S. Frederick, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for
Occupational Safety and Health, directed the preparation of this
notice. The authority for this notice is the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995 (44 U.S.C. 3506 et seq.) and Secretary of Labor's Order No. 8-2020
(85 FR 58393).
Signed at Washington, DC, on June 3, 2024.
James S. Frederick,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health.
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