[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 115 (Friday, June 14, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27806-27808]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-12537]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Bureau of Labor Statistics


Information Collection Activities; Comment Request

AGENCY: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor.

ACTION: Notice of information collection; request for comment.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Labor, as part of its continuing effort to 
reduce paperwork and respondent burden, conducts a pre-clearance 
consultation program to provide the general public and Federal agencies 
with an opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing 
collections of information in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction 
Act of 1995. This program helps to ensure that requested data can be 
provided in the desired format, reporting burden (time and financial 
resources) is minimized, collection instruments are clearly understood, 
and the impact of collection requirements on respondents can be 
properly assessed. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is soliciting 
comments

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concerning the proposed revision of the ``Survey of Occupational 
Injuries and Illnesses.'' A copy of the proposed information collection 
request (ICR) can be obtained by contacting the individual listed below 
in the ADDRESSES section of this notice.

DATES: Written comments must be submitted to the office listed in the 
ADDRESSES section of this notice on or before August 13, 2019.

ADDRESSES: Send comments to Nora Kincaid, BLS Clearance Officer, 
Division of Management Systems, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Room 4080, 
2 Massachusetts Avenue NE, Washington, DC 20212. Written comments also 
may be transmitted by fax to 202-691-5111 (this is not a toll free 
number).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nora Kincaid, BLS Clearance Officer, 
202-691-7628 (this is not a toll free number). (See ADDRESSES section.)

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

    Section 24(a) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 
requires the Secretary of Labor to develop and maintain an effective 
program of collection, compilation, and analysis of statistics on 
occupational injuries and illnesses. The Commissioner of Labor 
Statistics has been delegated the responsibility for ``Furthering the 
purpose of the Occupational Safety and Health Act by developing and 
maintaining an effective program of collection, compilation, analysis 
and publication of occupational safety and health statistics.'' The BLS 
fulfills this responsibility, in part, by conducting the Survey of 
Occupational Injuries and Illnesses in conjunction with participating 
state statistical agencies. The BLS Survey of Occupational Injuries and 
Illnesses provides the Nation's primary indicator of the progress 
towards achieving the goal of safer and healthier workplaces. The 
survey produces the overall rate of occurrence of work injuries and 
illnesses by industry which can be compared to prior years to produce 
measures of the rate of change. These data are used to assess the 
Nation's progress in improving the safety and health of America's work 
places; to prioritize scarce federal and state resources; to guide the 
development of injury and illness prevention strategies; and to support 
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and state safety 
and health standards and research. Data are essential for evaluating 
the effectiveness of federal and state programs for improving work 
place safety and health. For these reasons, it is necessary to provide 
estimates separately for participating states.

II. Current Action

    Office of Management and Budget clearance is being sought for the 
Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses. The survey measures the 
overall rate of occurrence of work injuries and illnesses by industry 
for private industry, state governments, and local governments. For the 
more serious injuries and illnesses, those with days away from work 
(DAFW), the survey provides detailed information on the injured/ill 
worker (age, sex, race, industry, occupation, and length of service), 
the time in shift, and the circumstances of the injuries and illnesses 
classified by standardized codes (nature of the injury/illness, part of 
body affected, primary and secondary sources of the injury/illness, and 
the event or exposure which produced the injury/illness).
    Beginning with the 2011 survey year, BLS began testing the 
collection of case and demographic data for injury and illness cases 
that require only days of job transfer or restriction (DJTR). The 
purpose of this on-going pilot study is to evaluate collection of these 
cases and to learn more about occupational injuries and illnesses that 
resulted in days of job transfer or work restriction.
    For survey year 2019, case circumstance and worker characteristics 
for DJTR cases will be collected for the following six NAICS * industry 
subsectors in private industry:

Crop production (NAICS 111)
Transportation equipment manufacturing (NAICS 336)
Food and beverage stores (NAICS 445)
Truck transportation (NAICS 484)
Amusement, gambling, and recreation industries (NAICS 713)
Food services and drinking places (NAICS 722)

    BLS anticipates that survey year 2019 will be the last for this 
pilot DJTR study, after which results will be assessed to determine how 
best to implement the collection of these data along with days away 
from work cases in future survey years. The BLS regards the collection 
of these DJTR cases as significant in its coverage of the American 
workforce.

III. Desired Focus of Comments

    The Bureau of Labor Statistics is particularly interested in 
comments that:
     Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is 
necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, 
including whether the information will have practical utility.
     Evaluate the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the 
burden of the proposed collection of information, including the 
validity of the methodology and assumptions used.
     Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the 
information to be collected.
     Minimize the burden of the collection of information on 
those who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate 
automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection 
techniques or other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting 
electronic submissions of responses.
    Title of Collection: Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses.
    OMB Number: 1220-0045.
    Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profits; Not-for-profit 
institutions; Farms; State, Local or Tribal Governments.

                                           Respondent Burden Estimates
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                                                                                   Average time      Estimated
            Form                   Total           Frequency           Total       per response    total burden
                                respondents                          responses       (minutes)         hours
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BLS 9300....................         232,400  Annually..........         232,400         23.8125          92,234
Pre-notification Package....        * 86,200  Annually..........          86,200         71.5726         102,826
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    Totals..................         232,400  Annually..........         232,400  ..............         195,060
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* (86,200 of the 232,400 respondents).


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    Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized 
and/or included in the request for Office of Management and Budget 
approval of the information collection request; they also will become a 
matter of public record.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 7th day of June 2019.
Mark Staniorski,
Chief, Division of Management Systems.
[FR Doc. 2019-12537 Filed 6-13-19; 8:45 am]
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