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There is a growing safety crisis at @Amazon.

A new report based on internal company documents show the company has effectively covered up a major safety crisis at its warehouses.

The report adds that things have gotten much worse since Amazon brought in robots.

The documents consist of weekly data from 2016 through 2019 from more than one hundred and fifty Amazon warehouses.

They show that the company has profoundly misled lawmakers and the public about its mounting injury crisis.

Amazon often points to the tens of millions of dollars it has invested to enhance safety practices.

Yet Amazon’s injury rates have gone up each of the past four years.

In 2019, Amazon fulfillment centers recorded fourteen thousand serious injuries. The overall rate of injuries was 33% higher than in 2016 and nearly double the most recent industry standard, @reveal reports.

The data back up the accounts of @Amazon workers who say the company has used the robots to ratchet up production quotas.

Now humans can’t keep up without hurting themselves.

Injury rates are significantly higher at Amazon’s robotic warehouses than at its traditional sites.

The robots bring items so quickly that the productivity expectations for workers have more than doubled.

Workers called pickers previously had to grab and scan about one hundred items an hour.

At robotic fulfillment centers, they were expected to handle up to 400 per hour.

For years, injury rates have spiked during the weeks of Prime Day and Cyber Monday, contrary to @Amazon’s public claims.

Those two weeks had the highest rate of serious injuries for all of 2019.

In May, Amazon chairman @JeffBezos said, "Nothing is more important than the health and well-being of our employees."

Well, Jeff: prove it.

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