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Consumer Product Safety Commission

NOTICE: NOTICES

DOCUMENT ACTION: Notice.

SUBJECT CATEGORY: Petition Requesting Labeling of Weightlifting Bench Press Benches To Reduce or Prevent Deaths Due to Asphyxia/Anoxia (Petition No. CP 03- 3)

DATES: The Office of the Secretary must receive comments on the petition by September 16, 2003.

DOCUMENT SUMMARY: The Commission has received a petition (CP 03-3) requesting that the Commission require labeling of weightlifting bench press benches to reduce or prevent deaths from asphyxia/anoxia due to being trapped beneath a bench press barbell. The Commission solicits written comments concerning the petition.

SUMMARY: Weightlifting bench press benches; labeling to reduce or prevent deaths due to asphyxia/anoxia; petition,

SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION

The Commission has received correspondence from V. Patteson Lombardi, Ph.D., requesting that the Commission require a warning label on both uprights of all ``manufactured, publicly available'' weightlifting bench press benches. The petitioner asserts that the labeling is necessary to reduce or eliminate deaths due to asphyxia/anoxia caused by being trapped under a bench press barbell. The petitioner provides information concerning a number of deaths he states involve such incidents.

The Commission is docketing the correspondence as a petition under provisions of the Consumer Product Safety Act, 15 U.S.C. 20512084.

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) 5040800. The petition is available on the CPSC Web site at http://www.cpsc.gov. A copy of the petition is 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 EastWest Highway, Bethesda, Maryland.

Dated: July 10, 2003.
Todd A. Stevenson,
Secretary, Consumer Product Safety Commission.
[FR Doc. 0318170 Filed 71703; 8:45 am]
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT Rockelle Hammond, Office of the Secretary, Consumer Product Safety Commission, Washington, DC 20207; telephone (301) 5046833, email rhammond@cpsc.gov.