Amazon.com Inc. warehouses in the United States, which employ millions of Americans, recorded a 38 percent rise in reported workplace injuries between 2020 and 2021, according to a new report released on April 12 by the Strategic Organizing Center (SOC), a labor activism group.
Former Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos pledged in a 2020 letter to shareholders that the company would become “Earth’s Safest Place to Work” after investing $300 million in workplace safety and instituting new protocols that the company claims are designed to reduce injuries.
Amazon has said that it plans to halve its warehouse injury rates by 2025, but SOC claims the company has ignored federal regulators’ recommendations to slow down the pace of work to reduce employee injuries.
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