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Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene Volume 7, 2010 - Issue 9
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Workers’ Experience of Slipping in U.S. Limited-Service Restaurants

Santosh K. Verma Center for Injury Epidemiology, Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety, Hopkinton, Massachusetts; Environmental and Occupational Medicine and Epidemiology Program, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts
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Wen-Ruey Chang Center for Physical Ergonomics, Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety, Hopkinton, Massachusetts
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Theodore K. Courtney Center for Injury Epidemiology, Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety, Hopkinton, Massachusetts; Environmental and Occupational Medicine and Epidemiology Program, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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David A. Lombardi Center for Injury Epidemiology, Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety, Hopkinton, Massachusetts; Environmental and Occupational Medicine and Epidemiology Program, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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Yueng-Hsiang Huang Center for Behavioral Sciences, Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety, Hopkinton, Massachusetts
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Melanye J. Brennan Center for Injury Epidemiology, Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety, Hopkinton, Massachusetts
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Murray A. Mittleman Environmental and Occupational Medicine and Epidemiology Program, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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Melissa J. Perry Environmental and Occupational Medicine and Epidemiology Program, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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Pages 491-500 | Published online: 14 Jun 2010

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