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Amazon Prime Day, the 48-hour discount blitz that kicks off Tuesday, is a “major” cause of worker injuries, according to the preliminary results of a Senate probe.
The Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee on Tuesday released the interim results of a yearlong investigation into Amazon’s warehouse working conditions just as the company holds its annual Prime Day deals event.
Amazon provided the committee with internal data from Prime Day 2019 that showed its total injury rate, including those the company is not required to disclose to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, was “just under” 45 injuries per 100 workers, which amounts to “nearly half of the company’s warehouse workers,” the report states.