CPSC Wants to Keep Tracking Product Injuries—Comments Welcome
Published Date: 2/27/2025
Notice
Summary
The Consumer Product Safety Commission wants to keep collecting info on injuries caused by products to keep everyone safe. They’re asking for your thoughts on extending this data collection, which helps track and prevent accidents. Comments are due by April 28, 2025, and this effort won’t cost you a dime but helps protect millions!
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 1 costs, 0 mixed.
Hospitals: Large time and cost burden, with CPSC contracts
If your hospital participates in NEISS, staff must review emergency department charts (NEISS coders review about 4.5 million charts annually) and submit reportable records (about 1.15 million records). CPSC estimates 160 NEISS respondents with an average burden of 720 hours per respondent, average cost per respondent of about $43,000, total NEISS respondent costs of approximately $6.9 million, and that NEISS respondents enter into contracts with CPSC and are compensated for these costs. Small hospitals may incur about 150 hours and ~$3,000 in annual costs, while the largest hospitals may incur about 4,500 hours and up to ~$550,000 in annual costs.
Individuals: Time burden for follow-up interviews
If you are a consumer, witness, or other knowledgeable person contacted for a follow-up investigation, you may be interviewed on-site (about 4.5 hours on average) or by telephone/internet (about 20 minutes for in-depth telephone/internet interviews). CPSC estimates 2,950 individual respondents with a total of 13,523 annual burden hours, and values this time at $46.84 per hour for an estimated annual public cost of about $633,417.
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