Failure to Deliver: Amazon Falls Short on Safety
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Four years after Amazon pledged to make the company “Earth’s Safest Place to Work” by cutting its total injury rate in half by 2025, a new analysis from the Strategic Organizing Center (SOC) shows that Amazon’s management has failed to deliver the safety improvements that it promised, and is nowhere near meeting its own injury reduction goals. In 2024, Amazon’s total injury rate was 80% higher than its target rate for 2025.
Drawing on newly released injury data Amazon itself submitted to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the Strategic Organizing Center’s (SOC) analysis reveals that Amazon’s injury rate remained alarmingly high in 2024 and has not meaningfully improved in recent years. SOC found that in 2024, the rate of serious injuries in Amazon’s warehouses was nearly double that of non-Amazon warehouses, highlighting that Amazon’s operations have continued to be dramatically more dangerous for workers than the broader warehouse industry.
