[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 49, Volume 5]
[Revised as of October 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 49CFR579.25]

[Page 936-937]
 
                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION
 
                            OF TRANSPORTATION
 
PART 579--REPORTING OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS ABOUT POTENTIAL DEFECTS--Table of Contents
 
            Subpart C--Reporting of Early Warning Information
 
Sec. 579.25  Reporting requirements for manufacturers of child restraint systems.

    For each reporting period, a manufacturer who has manufactured for 
sale, offered for sale, imported, or sold child restraint systems in the 
United States shall submit the information described in this section. 
For paragraphs (a) and (c) of this section, the manufacturer shall 
submit information separately with respect to each make, model, and 
production year of child restraint system manufactured during the 
reporting period and the four production years prior to the earliest 
production year in the reporting period, including models no longer in 
production.
    (a) Production information. Information that states the 
manufacturer's name, the quarterly reporting period,

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the make, the model, the production year, and the production. The 
production shall be stated as either the cumulative production of the 
current model year to the end of the reporting period, or the total 
calendar year production for each calendar year for which production has 
ceased.
    (b) Information on incidents involving death or injury. For all 
child restraint systems less than five calendar years old as of the 
beginning of the reporting period:
    (1) A report on each incident involving one or more deaths or 
injuries occurring in the United States that is identified in a claim 
against and received by the manufacturer or in a notice received by the 
manufacturer which notice alleges or proves that the death or injury was 
caused by a possible defect in the manufacturer's child restraint 
system, together with each incident involving one or more deaths 
occurring in a foreign country that is identified in a claim against and 
received by the manufacturer involving the manufacturer's child 
restraint system, if the child restraint system is identical or 
substantially similar to a child restraint system that the manufacturer 
has offered for sale in the United States. The report shall be submitted 
as a report on child restraint systems and organized such that incidents 
are reported alphabetically by make, within each make alphabetically by 
model, and within each model chronologically by production year.
    (2) For each such incident described in paragraph (b)(1) of this 
section, the manufacturer shall separately report the make, model, and 
production year of the child restraint system, the incident date, the 
number of deaths, the number of injuries for incidents occurring in the 
United States, the State or foreign country where the incident occurred, 
and each system or component of the child restraint system that 
allegedly contributed to the incident, coded as follows: 51 buckle and 
restraint harness, 52 seat shell, 53 handle, 54 base, 98 where a system 
or component not covered by categories 51 through 54 is specified in the 
claim or notice, and 99 where no system or component of the child 
restraint system is specified in the claim or notice. If an incident 
involves more than one such code, each shall be reported separately in 
the report.
    (c) Numbers of consumer complaints and warranty claims, and field 
reports. Separate reports on the numbers of those consumer complaints 
and warranty claims, and field reports, which involve the systems and 
components that are specified in codes 51 through 54 in paragraph (b)(2) 
of this section. Each such report shall state, separately by each such 
code, the number of such consumer complaints and warranty claims, or 
field reports, respectively, that involves the systems or components 
indicated by the code. If an underlying consumer complaint and warranty 
claim, or field report, involves more than one such code, each shall be 
counted separately in the report with no limit on the number of codes to 
be included. No reporting is necessary if the system or component 
involved is not specified in such codes.
    (d) Copies of field reports. For all child restraint systems less 
than five years old as of the beginning of the reporting period, a copy 
of each field report (other than a dealer field report) involving one or 
more of the systems or components identified in paragraph (b)(2) of this 
section, containing any assessment of an alleged failure, malfunction, 
lack of durability or other performance problem of the child restraint 
system (including any part thereof) that is originated by an employee or 
representative of the manufacturer and that the manufacturer received 
during the reporting period. These documents shall be submitted 
alphabetically by make, within each make alphabetically by model, and 
within each model chronologically by production year.