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It might be high there, but Troutdale, OR is #1. What a horrible company to work for. "The most dangerous facility, according to the piece, is Amazon's warehous
by cronix 7y ago
It might be high there, but Troutdale, OR is #1. What a horrible company to work for. "The most dangerous facility, according to the piece, is Amazon's warehouse in Troutdale, Ore., which had a serious injury rate of 26 per 100 workers, more than six times the industry average."
https://www.wweek.com/news/business/2019/11/27/amazon-warehouse-in-troutdale-under-scrutiny/ https://www.wweek.com/news/business/2019/11/27/amazon-wareho...
- Mvhsz 7y ago> serious injury rate of 26 per 100 workers Do you know the time period for this stat, I couldn't find it in the linked article.
- jellicle 7y agoThe OSHA incident rate is per 200,000 employee-hours, which is roughly 100 people, full-time, for a year. So for every 100 people that Amazon employs full-time-equivalent in that warehouse, about 26 of them will have a serious OSHA-reported incident each year.
- HarryHirsch 7y agoIn the chemical laboratory this would be unacceptable.
- cmcd 7y agoIt is unacceptable here as well.
- jandrese 7y ago> a serious injury rate of 26 per 100 workers What? A worse than 1/4 chance you will be maimed? That seems absurdly high. Deep sea crab fishing off the Alaska coast is a safer profession!
- hurxnid 7y agoI’m interested in the fact that “normal” is a 1 in 25 chance.
- dobleboble 7y agoHave you ever worked in a large warehouse?
- corodra 7y agoThe last time an article on HN about Amazon's warehouses being dangerous came out, a number of folks tried to argue that it's no big deal because they weren't dying. Thus, it's a safe place to work. High accident rates are perfectly fine as long as they dont die...
- badrequest 7y agoWhat a boring dystopia we've come to inhabit.
- cjslep 7y agoEvil is banal.
- corodra 7y agoWhat's sad, all fictional portrayals of dystopias are struggles and fights. Like, "the good guys died in battle from being killed by the bad guys". Now, if you speak up against FAANG or some other company making bullshit promises to "save the world", it's the people that stomp out the "good guys". Don't get me wrong, it's clever on them. But it's sad and makes the coming decades unnerving if these companies aren't lassoed into control. Apple is especially guilty of the whole cult following thing where they can do no wrong in the eyes of their zealots. Their continued growth and profiting is a symbol not of parasitic nature, but of their divinity to these people. Goddamn it, and I'm a red blooded capitalist. How do we resurrect Teddy Roosevelt, the old Bull Moose himself? We need Teddy...
- lawn 7y agoThat sounds absurdly high. What constitutes a serious injury?
- troydavis 7y agoApparently this is the definition used: > Its rate of serious injuries—those requiring job restrictions or days off work—was more than four times the industry average I'd like to see the set of job restrictions. (Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/11/amazon-warehouse-reports-show-worker-injuries/602530/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/11/amazo...)
- JustSomeNobody 7y agoHow can anyone inside Amazon look at those numbers and think, "Meh."? Otherwise they'd fix it. Actually, they never would have let it get this high. To be this high, nobody with any ability to fix it cared. Period.
- balt_s 7y agoThey look at the opposing political party and think "they are the real monsters, we're the Good People"; America's a helluva drug.