Amazon worker injury rates still double those of other warehouse workers: study

For the second year in a row, an annual report’s findings that serious-injury rates at Amazon.com Inc.’s warehouses were more than twice the rates at other warehouses coincides with a shareholder resolution calling for an independent audit of worker health and safety.

The injury rate of 6.6 per 100 workers at Amazon’s U.S. warehouses in 2022 was an improvement from last year’s rate of 6.8 per 100 workers, but still more than double that of 3.2 per 100 workers at non-Amazon warehouses, according to a report released Wednesday…