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Amazon's popular Prime Day sales event has been "a major cause of injuries" for warehouse workers who pick and pack customer orders at the e-commerce giant's facilities across the United States, according to a report released ...
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More than two-thirds of Amazon.com Inc. U.S. warehouse workers surveyed by researchers reported that they took unpaid time off to recover from pain or exhaustion sustained on the job.
Oct 26, 2023
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Washington's Department of Labor and Industries has cited a fourth Amazon warehouse, accusing the company of knowingly putting workers at risk of injury.
Aug 21, 2023
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Stroke is the most important cause of disability for adults in the EU, which affects approximately 1.1 million inhabitants each year. After a stroke, patients commonly need rehabilitation to relearn to walk, talk, or perform ...
Jun 29, 2023
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Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has opened a Senate investigation into Amazon's warehouse safety practices, the latest in a series of probes he's initiated against big corporations in his role as chairman of a committee that ...
Jun 20, 2023
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Amazon's total injury rate for warehouse workers took a dip last year, but injuries were still worse than they were in 2020, according to an analysis released Wednesday by a coalition of labor unions.
Apr 12, 2023
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Amazon may be on the hook to make changes to improve worker safety at a Kent warehouse following a new court ruling.
Mar 16, 2023
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OSHA proposed a fine of $60,269 for Amazon after finding injury lists at three warehouses put workers at "high risk for lower back injuries and musculoskeletal disorders."
Jan 23, 2023
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Federal safety investigators cited three Amazon warehouses for putting workers at serious risk of injury from the bending, twisting and lifting required to rapidly move and stack packages for hours.
Jan 19, 2023
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A team of researchers from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Stanford University led by Prof. Katie Driggs-Campbell, have recently developed a new deep reinforcement learning-based method that could improve the ...
