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.
