BILLING CODE: 4510-26-P
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.
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 [INSERT
DATE 60 DAYS AFTER DATE OF PUBLICATION IN THE FEDERAL
REGISTER].
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. 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.

[FR Doc. 2024-12464 Filed: 6/6/2024 8:45 am; Publication Date: 6/7/2024]