[Federal Register: November 8, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 217)]
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CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION

 
Petition Requesting Standard for Bunk Bed Cornerposts

AGENCY: Consumer Product Safety Commission.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Commission has received a petition (CP-03-1/ HP-03-1) 
requesting that the Commission establish a standard for bunk bed 
cornerposts. The Commission solicits written comments concerning the 
petition.

DATES: The Office of the Secretary must receive comments on the 
petition by January 7, 2003.

ADDRESSES: Comments, preferably in five copies, on the petition should 
be mailed to the Office of the Secretary, Consumer Product Safety 
Commission, Washington, DC 20207, telephone (301) 504-0800, or 
delivered to the Office of the Secretary, Room 501, 4330 East-West 
Highway, Bethesda, Maryland 20814. Comments may also be filed by 
telefacsimile to (301) 504-0127 or by email to cpsc-os@cpsc.gov. 
Comments should be captioned ``Petition CP-03-1/HP-03-1, Petition on 
Bunk Bed Cornerposts.'' A copy of the petition is available for 
inspection at the Commission's Public Reading Room, Room 419, 4330 
East-West Highway, Bethesda, Maryland, and on the Commission's website 
at http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/leaving.cgi?from=leavingFR.html&log=linklog&to=http://www.cpsc.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rockelle Hammond, Office of the 
Secretary, Consumer Product Safety Commission, Washington, DC 20207; 
telephone (301) 504-0800, ext. 1232.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Commission has received correspondence 
from the Danny Foundation requesting that the Commission establish a 
standard to address the hazard of strangulation posed by bunk bed 
cornerposts. The Commission is docketing this request as a petition 
under the Consumer Product Safety Act, 15 U.S.C. 2057, and the Federal 
Hazardous Substances Act, 15 U.S.C. 1261(q)(1)(A). The petitioner 
asserts that, due to the height of bunk beds, cornerposts on bunk beds 
pose a substantial risk to children when their clothing, bedding or 
other items become caught on the cornerposts. In such circumstances, 
children can hang from the caught item and die. The petitioner states 
that such incidents have resulted in fourteen deaths to American 
children since 1993.
    Interested parties may obtain a copy of the petition by writing or 
calling the Office of the Secretary, Consumer Product Safety 
Commission, Washington, DC 20207; telephone (301) 504-0800. Copies of 
the petition are also available for inspection from 8:30 a.m. to 5 
p.m., Monday through Friday, in the Commission's Public Reading Room, 
Room 419, 4330 East-West Highway, Bethesda, Maryland, or from the 
Commission's website at http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/leaving.cgi?from=leavingFR.html&log=linklog&to=http://www.cpsc.gov.

    Dated: November 4, 2002.
Todd Stevenson,
Secretary, Consumer Product Safety Commission.
[FR Doc. 02-28420 Filed 11-7-02; 8:45 am]
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