[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

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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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