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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Information Collection Activities;
Comment Request
Bureau of Labor Statistics,
Department of Labor.

AGENCY:

Notice of information collection;
request for comment.

ACTION:

The Department of Labor, as
part of its continuing effort to reduce
paperwork and respondent burden,
conducts a pre-clearance consultation
program to provide the general public
and Federal agencies with an
opportunity to comment on proposed
and/or continuing collections of
information in accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. This
program helps to ensure that requested
data can be provided in the desired
format, reporting burden (time and
financial resources) is minimized,
collection instruments are clearly
understood, and the impact of collection
requirements on respondents can be
properly assessed. The Bureau of Labor
Statistics (BLS) is soliciting comments
concerning the proposed revision of the
‘‘Survey of Occupational Injuries and
Illnesses.’’ A copy of the proposed
information collection request (ICR) can
be obtained by contacting the individual
listed below in the Addresses section of
this notice.

SUMMARY:

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Written comments must be
submitted to the office listed in the
Addresses section of this notice on or
before July 27, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Send comments to Nora
Kincaid, BLS Clearance Officer,
Division of Management Systems,
Bureau of Labor Statistics, Room 4080,
2 Massachusetts Avenue NE,
Washington, DC 20212. Written
comments also may be transmitted by
email to BLS_PRA_Public@bls.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Nora Kincaid, BLS Clearance Officer,
202–691–7628 (this is not a toll free
number). (See ADDRESSES section.)
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Statistics (BLS) will introduce the
publication of a new biennial case and
demographic data series for cases that
involve days of job transfer or restriction
(DJTR) for all industries. This shift will
result in significant changes to the SOII
news release and how publication tables
are presented to provide additional data
on the case circumstances and worker
demographics for DJTR cases, in
addition to details that have long been
published for cases involving days away
from work (DAFW). Biennial estimates
for DJTR and DAFW will be released
together. Summary industry estimates,
produced annually, will remain
unchanged.

I. Background
Section 24(a) of the Occupational
Safety and Health Act of 1970 requires
the Secretary of Labor to develop and
maintain an effective program of
collection, compilation, and analysis of
statistics on occupational injuries and
illnesses. The Commissioner of Labor
Statistics has been delegated the
responsibility for ‘‘Furthering the
purpose of the Occupational Safety and
Health Act by developing and
maintaining an effective program of
collection, compilation, analysis and
publication of occupational safety and
health statistics.’’ The BLS fulfills this
responsibility, in part, by conducting
the Survey of Occupational Injuries and
Illnesses in conjunction with
participating state statistical agencies.
The BLS Survey of Occupational
Injuries and Illnesses provides the
Nation’s primary indicator of the
progress towards achieving the goal of
safer and healthier workplaces. The
survey produces the overall rate of
occurrence of work injuries and
illnesses by industry which can be
compared to prior years to produce
measures of the rate of change. These
data are used to assess the Nation’s
progress in improving the safety and
health of America’s work places; to
prioritize scarce federal and state
resources; to guide the development of
injury and illness prevention strategies;
and to support Occupational Safety and
Health Administration (OSHA) and state
safety and health standards and
research. Data are essential for
evaluating the effectiveness of federal
and state programs for improving work
place safety and health. For these
reasons, it is necessary to provide
estimates separately for participating
states.
Effective with the release of estimates
from the Survey of Occupational and
Injuries and Illnesses (SOII) in
November 2023, the Bureau of Labor

II. Current Action
Office of Management and Budget
clearance is being sought for the Survey
of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses.
The survey measures the overall rate of
occurrence of work injuries and
illnesses by industry for private
industry, state governments, and local
governments. For the more serious
injuries and illnesses, those with days
away from work (DAFW), the survey
provides detailed information on the
injured/ill worker (age, sex, race,
industry, occupation, and length of
service), the time in shift, and the
circumstances of the injuries and
illnesses classified by standardized
codes (nature of the injury/illness, part
of body affected, primary and secondary
sources of the injury/illness, and the
event or exposure which produced the
injury/illness).
Days of job transfer or restriction
(DJTR) cases have become more
prevalent since 1992 when detailed data
were first collected only for days-awayfrom-work (DAFW) cases. In 1992, DJTR
cases accounted for 21 percent of total
days away from work, days of restricted
work activity, or job transfer cases
(DART). By 2011, DJTR accounted for 40
percent of these cases. At that time, the
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) began a
series of three 3-year pilot studies from
2011–19 to collect DJTR case details for
select industries. When these pilot
studies concluded with 2019 data, DJTR
cases accounted for 43 percent of DART
cases.
The aforementioned pilot studies
conducted by the BLS were intended to
learn more about occupational injuries
and illnesses that resulted in days of job
transfer or work restriction (DJTR) by
comparing the circumstances and
worker characteristics of injuries and
illnesses that required days away from
work (DAFW) to recuperate and those
that led to DJTR only. Detailed data on
DJTR cases will lead to a better
understanding of how occupational

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injuries and illnesses are managed and
give a more complete accounting of the
types of injuries and illnesses that occur
to workers and how they occurred. Prior
to these pilot studies, the BLS Survey of
Occupational Injuries and Illnesses
(SOII) collected and published only data
on the case circumstances and worker
characteristics for DAFW cases. These
pilot studies expanded the SOII to
collect and report the same detail for
DJTR cases for select industries. Data
from these pilots can be found at
https://www.bls.gov/iif/soiidata.htm#djtr.
The proportion of DJTR cases as a
percentage of DART cases among
private industry overall has trended
higher since 1992, while the proportion
of DAFW cases has trended downward
over this period. Both the incidence rate
and number of cases of DJTR has
exceeded that of DAFW in the
manufacturing industry sector since the
late 1990s. The pilot collection of DJTR
case details has provided important
insights into workplace safety and
health data that were previously
unavailable. Analysis of DJTR data
showed that their inclusion provides a
more complete understanding of the
circumstances leading to occupational
injuries and illnesses than DAFW cases
alone can provide. For example, DJTR
cases as a percentage of DART cases in
the Food services and drinking places
industry remained the same regardless

of the age of the worker. While in the
Amusement, gambling, and recreation
industry, workers under the age of 45
had a higher percentage of DJTR cases
than DAFW cases. If studying only a few
selected industries, policy makers and
researchers would be unable to
determine the complete picture of this
phenomenon. If all industries could be
analyzed, safety resources and return-towork strategies could be developed to
address the unique work experiences by
the age of the worker or by other
characteristics.
Based on the findings from these
studies and the depth of information
they produced, as well as the
recommendation from the National
Academy of Sciences (NAS) A Smarter
National Surveillance System for
Occupational Safety and Health in the
21st Century,1 the BLS decided to
collect information on DJTR cases for all
industries. Particularly,
Recommendation A from Chapter 4 of
the NAS report noted, ‘‘BLS should
routinely collect detailed case and
demographic data for injuries and
illnesses resulting in job transfer or
restricted duty as well as those resulting
in days away from work.’’ The report
further notes that this could be easily
accomplished in the short term with
minimal impact to respondent burden
due to the fact that these data are
already recorded by employers.

III. Desired Focus of Comments
The Bureau of Labor Statistics is
particularly interested in comments
that:
• Evaluate whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the
functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility.
• Evaluate the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used.
• Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected.
• Minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, including through the
use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submissions
of responses.
Title of Collection: Survey of
Occupational Injuries and Illnesses.
OMB Number: 1220–0045.
Type of Review: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Affected Public: Businesses or other
for-profits; Not-for-profit institutions;
Farms; State, Local or Tribal
Governments.

BLS 9300 RESPONDENT BURDEN ESTIMATES
Total
respondents

Form 9300

Average time
per response
(minutes)

Total
responses

Frequency

Estimated
burden
hours

Total Reporting Burden .....................
Total Recording Burden ....................

86,200
232,800

Annually ............................................
Annually ............................................

86,200
232,800

63.698
24.831

91,513
96,346

Totals .........................................

232,800

Annually ............................................

232,800

........................

187,859

Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and/or
included in the request for Office of
Management and Budget approval of the
information collection request; they also
will become a matter of public record.
Signed at Washington, DC, this 25th day of
May 2021.
Leslie Bennett,
Acting Chief, Division of Management
Systems.
[FR Doc. 2021–11367 Filed 5–27–21; 8:45 am]
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Mine Safety and Health Administration
Petitions for Modification of
Application of Existing Mandatory
Safety Standards
Mine Safety and Health
Administration, Labor.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

This notice includes the
summaries of three petitions for
modification submitted to the Mine
Safety and Health Administration
(MSHA) by the party listed below.

SUMMARY:

All comments on the petitions
must be received by MSHA’s Office of
Standards, Regulations, and Variances
on or before June 28, 2021.
ADDRESSES: You may submit your
comments including the docket number
of the petition by any of the following
methods:
1. Electronic Mail: zzMSHAcomments@dol.gov. Include the docket
number of the petition in the subject
line of the message.
2. Facsimile: 202–693–9441.
3. Regular Mail or Hand Delivery:
MSHA, Office of Standards,
Regulations, and Variances, 201 12th
DATES:

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

1 See https://www.nap.edu/catalog/24835/asmarter-national-surveillance-system-foroccupational-safety-and-health-in-the-21st-century.

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