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by papln 2430 days ago
Headline is deceptive. There is no objective metric of "most dangerous" here. The list is a list of "employers that an activist group wants to make noise about."

Does Amazon have problems to address? Absolutely. Is it "most dangerous"? Absolutely not.

It's farcical to claim that Amazon is a top-12 most-dangerous place to work.

Here's a real list:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/careers/2018/01/09/work...

#1 Logging: 100 per 100K annual death rate.

#13 Construction labor: 25 per 100K

#25 HVAC 8 per 100K

That's over dozen job types, encompassing many more employers.

Amazon warehouse: 10 per 100K+: ~10 deaths / 100,000+ warehouse employees (I can't find a clear number of full-time-equivalent, but Time says "300K employees", World Socialists say 125K warehouse workers in 2017)

USA unintentional injury death rate: 50 per 100K

USA heart attack death rate: 100+ per 100K

USA heart disease death rate, age 45-64: 150 per 100K

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr68/nvsr68_05-508.pdf