Caroline O'Donovan and Lauren Kaori Gurley at The Washington Post report on a sweeping Congressional investigation into Worker safety at Amazon that found that the Nation’s largest on-line retailer manipulated data on warehouse Worker injuries and disregarded internal research on improving safety.  The report was released by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, which is chaired by U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (Independent-Vermont).  “In its endless pursuit of profits, Amazon sacrifices Workers’ bodies under the constant pressure of a surveillance system that enforces impossible rates,” Sanders said.  The Committee found Amazon workplaces recorded 30% more injuries in 2023 than the Warehousing Industry average and that the company cherry-picks statistics to hide the fact its warehouses are significantly more dangerous than other companies’ facilities.  A Washington Post analysis of Federal data in 2021 found Amazon’s injury rates were nearly double those of other businesses in the Warehousing Industry.

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