Amazon Prime Day is not great for everyone. A Senate report finds that Amazon workers get hurt in the mad rush for deals.
The Senate analyzed Prime Day in 2019 and found over 10 injuries per 100 workers reported to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), which is “more than double the industry average.” The report found that injuries not disclosed to OSHA “was just under 45 injuries per 100 workers, [which is] nearly half of the company’s warehouse workers.” Yikes!
The injury rate increases around the holidays too when workers “process twice as many packages per day” than they do during normal periods. The committee accuses Amazon of skirting and “sometimes even outright [ignoring] critical safety protocols.”
So what are consumers to do? Not shop Amazon Prime Day? Demand that Congress implement more safety regulations? What do you think?
