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Amazon’s relentless efforts for efficiency are leading to pressure on people working in distribution centers to achieve their targets, and the number of incidents that accompany them is increasing, reports reported.
As of June 2019, 125,000 people are working at 110 Amazon distribution centers in the United States. According to reports, a survey of 23 distribution centers revealed that in 2018, the rate of accidents among full-time workers was 9.6%. The average for industry in the United States is 4%.
The report, for example, reports that the incidence of heavy disasters at the Eastvale distribution center in California is 442 per year, more than four times the industry average. The distribution center requires more than 300 items per hour to be picked from shelves and inspected to achieve employee target efficiency. This is a figure that calculates that one should be checked every 11 seconds.
The accident rate of the JFK8 distribution center in Staten Island, New York, operated since the second half of 2018 is said to be 15%. It seems that there were many employees who were unfamiliar with the work that many accidents occurred while the recordable uptime was less than 4 months. However, according to OSHA data, this is a considerable number considering that many major disasters have occurred, such as having to close the business for an average of two months or longer. For reference, the incidence of accidents at sawmills with a lot of dangerous work is 6.1%, and 10.2% at steel mills.
In another report, a pregnant female employee asked for a light job relocation, but the manager ignored it, and the woman had a miscarriage. However, even if this happens, most employees are compelled to accept heavy labor for a living. Related information can be found here .
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