The company says it wants to be the 'Safest Place to Work.'
Amazon workers only make up a third of US warehouse employees, but in 2021, they suffered 49 percent of the injuries for the entire warehouse industry, according to. After analyzing data from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration , the union coalition found that Amazon workers are twice as likely to be seriously injured than people who work in warehouses for other companies.
The report considers “serious injuries” to be ones where workers either have to take time off to recover or have their workloads reduced, following of “cases with days away from work” and “cases with job transfer or restriction.” The data shows that, over time, the company has been shifting more toward putting people on light duty, rather than having them take time off.
It’s also worth noting that even with that slowed pace of work in 2020, Amazon has been criticized for how it treated workers in its response to COVID-19, especially in New York, where organizers were motivated to
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