Abstract

To the Editor .— Runyan et al1 recently reported the results of a telephone-based cross-sectional survey of US youth aged 14 to 18 years regarding their activities and injury experiences in the retail and service sectors of the workplace. Their results revealed numerous areas of violation of federal laws regarding the types of work, conditions of work, and orientation and supervision for youth. As the authors themselves pointed out, recall bias is an important limitation to such a methodology and likely leads to a considerable underestimation of actual risk. This is particularly true with regard to certain circumstances in the workplace that might …

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