Amazon accounts for about 33% of all warehouse workers but was responsible for 49% of the nation's warehouse injuries last year.
Amazon’s most recent example of double digit growth likely isn’t one it’s eager to tell shareholders.Last year Amazon facility workers endured nearly 40,000 injuries, with the company recording a 20% increase in its overall injury rate between 2020-2021. Just around half of all U.S. warehouse worker
found Amazon workers were exposed to significantly more potential risk than other warehouse workers. To put that into 89% of the 38,334 recorded injuries were reportedly so severe they either left workers unable to perform their normal functions or forced them to miss work altogether. Injury rates were also reportedly higher at Amazon’s largely automatic, robotic warehouse than their less automated sites, despite previous
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