[cpncrunch]

Terrible article devoid of useful facts. Not that I'm defending amazon...it sounds like a terrible place to work. However, none of these deaths seems to be Amazon's fault. From the "dirty dozen":

● Andrew Lindsay and Israel Espana Argote, contract workers, died when the wall of an Amazon warehouse collapsed during a severe storm in Baltimore in November 2018.

● Brien James Daunt fell to his death during construction of an Amazon warehouse in Oildale, CA in January 2019. Falls from a height are a well-known – and preventable – hazard in the construction industry, with long-established protocols to reduce risks. CalOSHA is investigating the incident.

● Aviators Ricky Blakely, Conrad Jules Aska and Sean Archuleta died in February when an Air Atlas plane, carrying cargo for Amazon, crashed into Trinity Bay, southeast of Texas. Blakely and Aska worked for Air Atlas and were members of the Airline Professional Association (APA), Teamsters Local 224. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is investigating the incident.

[cactus2093]

Out of curiousity I looked up some rough numbers (which is clearly far beyond what either this article or this dirty dozen organization were willing to do). They name 7 deaths related to amazon, but 3 were in a plane crash and one was during construction on a warehouse, both of which Amazon would have very little to do with and were almost certainly not employees of AMazon. So really it's 3 deaths, out of a workforce of about 650,000 which is about 0.375% of the entire US workforce. The list highlights that there were 5,100 workplaces deaths total in 2018, so if they matched the averages then Amazon would have 19 deaths per year. Instead they have 3 deaths over the past 2 years (since November 2018).

Obviously any such deaths are a tragedy, but by the numbers there are clearly much more dangerous jobs in the US than being an Amazon worker.

[jcims]

Agree. Curious how having their own delivery trucks is going to move that needle.