Amazon warehouse injuries rose 20% last year and represent 49% of all U.S. warehouse injuries for the year, a surprising new report finds.
April 14, 2022 – About 38,000 Amazon workers were injured on the job in 2021, a 20% increase over the previous year, according toThose Amazon warehouse injuries represented 49% of all U.S. warehouse injuries for the year, the report said. The serious injury rate at Amazon warehouses was 6.8 per 100 workers, compared to 3.3 per 100 workers at non-Amazon warehouses, the report said.
“Like other companies in the industry, we saw an increase in recordable injuries during this time from 2020 to 2021 as we trained so many new people – however, when you compare 2021 to 2019, our recordable injury rate declined more than 13% year over year,” the spokesperson told Gizmodo. About 89% of the Amazon injuries were so severe, the workers either left work or were unable to perform their normal functions, according to the report, which also found that Amazon warehouse workers needed around 19 more days to recover from injuries than workers at non-Amazon warehouses.
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