For years, Amazon warehouse workers have been speaking up about unsafe conditions and the risk of injury they say they face while churning out millions of packages every day. Now their claims are being backed up by federal investigators who cited Amazon for “failing to keep workers safe” and new 2022 facility-level injury data that shows Amazon workers get injured at a rate of 6.9 for every 100 workers. CNBC spoke with Amazon workers who’ve been hurt and asked the government, and Amazon, what’s being done to make warehouses safer.
Chapters:
00:00 — Introduction
02:13 – Injured at higher rates
07:09 — How workers get hurt
10:25 — Problematic injury reporting
14:42 — Promises to do better
19:21 — Workers taking action
Produced and Shot by: Katie Tarasov
Edit by: Evan Lee Miller
Animation: Christina Locopo, Jason Reginato and Alex Wood
Supervising Producer: Jeniece Pettitt
Additional Camera: Liam Mays and Lucas Mullikin
Additional Footage: Amazon, Bobby Gosvener, C-SPAN2, Getty Images, Jennifer Crane, Lanita Hammons, Strategic Organizing Center, The Committee on Education & The Workforce
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Why So Many Amazon Workers Are Getting Hurt