Amazon manipulated injury data to make warehouses appear safer, a Senate probe finds

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Source: NPR

December 16, 2024 2:28 PM ET



A Senate committee investigation accused the nation's largest online retailer Amazon of putting workers at risk of injury in the name of speed — while manipulating workplace injury data to portray its warehouses as safer than they truly are.

The findings were released late Sunday by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension (HELP) Committee, led by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. The report stems from an 18-month investigation that reviewed seven years of Amazon workplace injury data and interviewed over 130 Amazon workers.

It found that despite Amazon's claims of safe working conditions, company data showed that its warehouses have "significantly higher" injury rates than both the industry average and non-Amazon warehouses.

More specifically, over the past seven years, Amazon workers were nearly twice as likely to be injured compared to workers at other warehouses in the sector. The report also found in 2023, Amazon warehouses recorded more than 30% more injuries than the industry average.

Read more: https://www.npr.org/2024/12/16/nx-s1-5230240/amazon-injury-warehouse-senate-investigation

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Link to Senate Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions Committee PRESS RELEASE - NEWS: Sanders Releases Sweeping Report Exposing How Amazon’s Obsession with Speed Injures Workers at Unprecedented Rates

Link to REPORT is here

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1. There won't be probes like this come January. -nt

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

2. I'm wondering if there will still be an OSHA agency.

[SunSeeker]

3. I have a friend who worked at an Amazon warehouse. It was the worst job of her life.

It was a warehouse that also stocked frozen items. She had to spend hours in the freezer and was always getting sick. She finally quit after they refused to transfer her to another task outside the freezer.