Agency Information Collection Activities; Extension of Collection; Comment Request; National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS) and Follow-Up Activities for Product Related Injuries, 10815-10817 [2025-03158]

Agencies

• Consumer Product Safety Commission

[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 38 (Thursday, February 27, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10815-10817]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-03158]


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CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION

[Docket No. CPSC-2009-0102]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Extension of 
Collection; Comment Request; National Electronic Injury Surveillance 
System (NEISS) and Follow-Up Activities for Product Related Injuries

AGENCY: Consumer Product Safety Commission.

ACTION: Notice of information collection; request for comment.

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SUMMARY: As required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 
Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC or Commission) requests 
comments on a proposed extension of approval of information collection 
to obtain data on consumer product-related injuries, and follow-up 
activities for product-related injuries. The Office of Management and 
Budget (OMB) previously approved the collection of information under 
control number 3041-0029. OMB's most recent extension of approval will 
expire on May 31, 2025. The Commission will

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consider all comments received in response to this notice before 
requesting an extension of this collection of information from OMB.

DATES: Submit comments on the collection of information by April 28, 
2025.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CPSC-2009-
0102, within 60 days of publication of this notice by any of the 
following methods:
    Electronic Submissions: Submit electronic comments to the Federal 
eRulemaking Portal at: https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the 
instructions for submitting comments. Do not submit through this 
website: confidential business information, trade secret information, 
or other sensitive or protected information that you do not want to be 
available to the public. The Commission typically does not accept 
comments submitted by email, except as described below.
    Mail/hand delivery/courier/written submissions: CPSC encourages you 
to submit electronic comments by using the Federal eRulemaking Portal. 
You may, however, submit comments by mail/hand delivery/courier to: 
Office of the Secretary, Consumer Product Safety Commission, 4330 East-
West Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814; telephone (301) 504-7923.
    Instructions: All submissions received must include the agency name 
and docket number for this notice. CPSC may post all comments without 
change, including any personal identifiers, contact information, or 
other personal information provided, to: https://www.regulations.gov. If 
you wish to submit confidential business information, trade secret 
information, or other sensitive or protected information that you do 
not want to be available to the public, you may submit such comments by 
mail, hand delivery, or courier, or you may email them to [email protected].
    Docket: For access to the docket to read background documents or 
comments received, go to: https://www.regulations.gov, insert docket 
number CPSC-2009-0102 into the ``Search'' box, and follow the prompts.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Cynthia Gillham, Consumer Product 
Safety Commission, 4330 East-West Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814; (301) 
504-7791, or by email to: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: CPSC seeks to renew the following currently 
approved collection of information:
    Title: National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS) and 
Follow-up Activities for Product Related Injuries.
    OMB Number: 3041-0029.
    Type of Review: Extension of collection.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion.
    Affected Public: Hospitals and individuals.
    General Description of Collection: The Consumer Product Safety Act 
(CPSA) requires the Commission to collect information related to the 
cause and prevention of death, injury, and illness associated with 
consumer products. 15 U.S.C. 2054(a). CPSC conducts continuing studies 
and investigations of deaths, injuries, diseases, other health 
impairments, and economic losses resulting from incidents involving 
consumer products. CPSC obtains information about product-related 
deaths, injuries, and illnesses from a variety of sources, including 
news outlets, death certificates, consumer complaints, and medical 
facilities. In addition, CPSC operates the National Electronic Injury 
Surveillance System (NEISS) to collect data on consumer product-related 
injuries treated in hospital emergency departments in the United 
States. CPSC also uses the NEISS system to collect information on 
childhood poisonings in accordance with the Poison Prevention Packaging 
Act of 1970.
    From these sources, the CPSC selects cases of interest for further 
investigation by contacting individuals who witnessed or were injured 
in incidents involving consumer products. These investigations are 
conducted on-site (face-to-face), by telephone, or by the internet. 
This information is also collected by contacting state and local 
officials, including police, coroners and fire investigators, and 
others with knowledge of the incident.
    CPSC uses the information from this collection to support 
development and improvement of voluntary standards; proceedings for the 
development of mandatory standards and regulations; information and 
education campaigns; and administrative and judicial proceedings for 
enforcement of the statutes, standards, and regulations administered by 
the agency. The information collected informs the agency in its efforts 
to remove unsafe products from channels of distribution and consumers' 
homes, and it provides information to the public about the safety of 
consumer products.\1\
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    \1\ Through Interagency Agreements, the CPSC also uses the NEISS 
system to collect information on injuries for the Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (NEISS All Injury Program 
(NEISS-AIP)). In addition to the standard data variables collected 
on all NEISS injuries, the NEISS-AIP collects additional variables 
on several studies for CDC (Firearm-Related Injuries, Adverse Drug 
Events, Assaults, and Self- Inflicted Violence) and one study on 
non-crash motor vehicle-related injuries for the National Highway 
and Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA).
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    Estimated Number of Respondents: CPSC estimates a total number of 
3,110 respondents, annually. CPSC estimates 160 respondents to NEISS, 
which includes hospitals that directly report information to NEISS and 
hospitals that allow access to a CPSC contractor who collects the data 
for NEISS. CPSC estimates 2,950 individual respondents expected to be 
interviewed by CPSC for further investigations of reported cases.
    Estimated Time per Response: All NEISS data are reported 
electronically and NEISS coders directly submit data to CPSC through 
the internet on a CPSC-developed application called WebNEISS. The NEISS 
coders review an estimated 4.5 million emergency department charts 
annually. Each chart review requires approximately 30 seconds to review 
and determine if the record is reportable. On average, the 1.15 million 
reportable records take 2 minutes each to enter into WebNEISS. Records 
that qualify for a special study take an additional 90 seconds to 2 
minutes to code. Collecting emergency department records for review, 
correcting error messages, and other tasks takes between 2.5 and 6 
hours weekly. Respondents also spend about 8-36 hours per year 
participating in related activities (training, evaluations, and 
communicating with other hospital staff). The average burden per 
respondent is 720 hours. However, the total burden hours on each 
respondent varies, due to differences in the sizes of the hospitals 
(e.g., small rural hospitals versus large metropolitan hospitals). The 
smallest hospital will report an estimated 250 cases with a burden of 
about 150 hours, while the largest hospital will report an estimated 
65,000 cases with a burden of about 4,500 hours.
    Information for follow-up investigations from NEISS and other 
sources is collected through traditional face-to-face, telephone, or 
internet-based interviews with consumers, witnesses, and other 
knowledgeable parties, such as fire, police, and healthcare 
professionals. On average, an on-site interview takes about 4.5 hours. 
CPSC staff also complete about 750 in-depth investigations (IDIs) by 
telephone through the use of a Computer Assisted Telephone Interview 
(CATI) or self-administered Computer Assisted internet Interviews 
(CAII) questionnaires. Each CATI or CAII IDI requires about 20 minutes 
to complete.

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CPSC estimates 13,523 annual burden hours on these respondents: 13,275 
hours for face-to-face interviews and 248 hours for in-depth telephone 
or internet interviews.
    Total Estimated Annual Burden: Table 1 summarizes the burden of the 
collection. The total estimated annualized burden to respondents is 
128,523 hours (115,248 for NEISS respondents and 13,523 for 
individuals).

                                         Table 1--Average Annual Burden
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                                                                                    Burden  per
                                    Respondents      Frequency       Responses       response      Total burden
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NEISS...........................             160           7,188       1,150,000             6.0         115,000
Other Respondents...............           2,950               1           2,950           275.0          13,523
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    Total.......................           3,110             371       1,152,950             6.7         128,523
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    Total Estimated Annual Cost to Respondents: The total costs to 
NEISS respondents are estimated at approximately $6.9 million. NEISS 
respondents enter into contracts with CPSC and are compensated for 
these costs. The average cost per respondent is estimated to be about 
$43,000. The average cost per burden hour is estimated to be $60 per 
hour (including wages and overhead). However, the actual cost to each 
respondent varies, due to the type of respondent (hospital versus CPSC 
contractor), size of hospital, and regional differences in wages and 
overhead. Therefore, the actual annual cost for any given respondent 
may vary between $3,000 at a small rural hospital, and $550,000 at the 
largest metropolitan hospital.
    CPSC estimates the value of the time required for reporting by 
other respondents to be $46.84 an hour, the average cost for employee 
compensation for civilian workers (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 
``Employer Costs for Employee Compensation,'' September 2024: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/ecec_12172024.pdf). At this 
valuation, the estimated annual cost to the public is about $633,417 
(13,523 burden hours x $46.84 per hour = $633,417.32).

Request for Comments

    The Commission solicits written comments from all interested 
persons about the proposed collection of information. The Commission 
specifically solicits information relevant to the following topics:
     whether the collection of information described above is 
necessary for the proper performance of the Commission's functions, 
including whether the information would have practical utility;
     whether the estimated burden of the proposed collection of 
information is accurate;
     whether the quality, utility, and clarity of the 
information to be collected could be enhanced; and
     whether the burden imposed by the collection of 
information could be minimized by use of automated, electronic or other 
technological collection techniques, or other forms of information 
technology.

Alberta E. Mills,
Secretary, Consumer Product Safety Commission.
[FR Doc. 2025-03158 Filed 2-26-25; 8:45 am]
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