Health and Safety at Amazon
Since 2021, the SOC has analyzed injury data from Amazon and exposed the company’s ongoing failure to keep workers safe on the job. We support the grassroots, worker-driven struggles for safety and fair treatment at Amazon, using comprehensive data analysis to back up workers’ firsthand accounts of the dangerous conditions they face on the job.
Our research pierces Amazon’s corporate spin and shines a light on management’s choice to prioritize delivery speeds and profits over the health and safety of its workers. We have exposed misrepresentations by Amazon’s executives who have repeatedly sought to mislead investors and the public about the scale of its injury crisis. SOC reports are repeatedly cited in national media outlets and by prominent Congressional voices as the authoritative source on the injury crisis at Amazon.
Read our most recent report “Same-Day Injury,” (2024) which exposed huge spikes in serious injuries during the weeks of Amazon’s Prime Day and holiday sales events.
Read our previous reports “In Denial” (2023), “The Injury Machine” (2022) and “Primed for Pain” (2021), exposing the role Amazon’s pace of work plays in its astronomical warehouse injury rates.
Read “The Worst Mile” (2022), our report about the high injury rates among drivers at Amazon’s captive contracted delivery services, including Amazon’s extreme control over every aspect of drivers’ workdays.
Read our July 2022 complaint to the Securities and Exchange Commission urging it to hold Amazon CEO Andy Jassy accountable for misleading shareholders by misrepresenting facts about the injury crisis at Amazon.
