Federal Injury Database Collection Gets Another Round of Paperwork
Published Date: 5/23/2025
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Summary
The Consumer Product Safety Commission is asking to keep collecting info on injuries caused by products through hospitals and follow-ups. This helps spot dangers and keep people safe. They want to extend this data collection past May 31, 2025, and are open to comments until June 23, 2025.
Analyzed Economic Effects
4 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 3 costs, 0 mixed.
Hospitals face reporting time and costs
Hospitals and contractor NEISS respondents (estimated 160 respondents) will continue to spend substantial staff time reporting data: CPSC estimates an average burden of 720 hours per respondent and total NEISS respondent costs of about $6.9 million per year, with an average cost per respondent of about $43,000. NEISS coders review about 4.5 million charts annually and enter about 1.15 million reportable records.
NEISS data collection will continue
CPSC is seeking to extend the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS) data collection past the current OMB approval that expires on May 31, 2025. NEISS collects hospital emergency department data and follow-up interviews used to identify unsafe consumer products and to support standards, recalls, and public education.
Individuals may spend hours in follow-up interviews
If you are contacted for a follow-up investigation, CPSC estimates an average burden of about 4.5 hours per on-site interview and 20 minutes for in-depth telephone or internet interviews. CPSC expects about 2,950 individual respondents and estimates 13,523 annual burden hours for these interviews with a public-valued cost of about $633,417 per year.
Brand and model details not shared publicly
CPSC states it does not include product brand names or model numbers in NEISS data it shares publicly because of section 6(b) of the Consumer Product Safety Act (15 U.S.C. 2055(b)).
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