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by cactus2093 2423 days ago
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.