it s more dangerous than occupations like coal mining and log. amazon is, should be held to account for some of these safety conditions. what does that mean hold to account? are they violating any labor laws? they have been cited by occupational safety and health administration and they have faced some consequences, but the regulatory regime in this country is so weak, that many companies the size of amazon can get away with devastating injuries and some deaths we ve seen at amazon warehouses. i want to read what amazon told reveal about its injury report. they said this. amazon s injury rates are so high because of its aggressive about reporting their own worker injuries and they are very cautious about allowing injured workers to return to work before they are ready. they are basically making the argument it s because of their standards they record every one of these possible injuries that we re aware of them.
of 9.6 per 100 full-time workers. that s double than the national average. joining me is an author who is looking into the cost of black friday for amazon s workers. what did you learn about the toll this is take on those workers? the focus on total efficiency at amazon is take really bad toll on workers bodies as well as their mental health. there s an investigation about these pretty devastating injury rates at amazon warehouses. they are becoming a dominant force in the warehouse logistics industry. amazon is in a position to release standards for this industry. what we see from injury reports that s amazon s own recorded data. the injury rates are astounding.
antitrust laws to bear or bring labor laws to bear on amazon and it s probably about time. do you foresee any of those changes happening? because as it relates to even just holiday shopping, we know shopping online is only going to increase. yeah. it s really difficult for us as consumers to envision disentangling yourselves from amazon s market power but that s not entirely our fault. amazon has grown to such an extent that it s preach, you know, it s really difficult to do any sort of online transaction without running into amazon. but there has been a ground swell of labor organizing in amazon warehouses, there s been a coalition, national coalition that s recently emerged as a grassroots coalition that s designed to campaign for workplace stress test across the country. recently in new york we saw plans for amazon s hq2 headquarters, corporate
on getting injury records from around the country from amazon warehouses. and we ended up getting 23 amazon warehouses and found that these injury rate overall was me than double the industry average. and hearing these these accounts of people stuck at home, you know, in lifelong pain essentially, meanwhile they ve been replaced by the next worker as long as they can make it until they get injured. it was it s it was astounding. ashley robinson, the amazon spokesperson, said amazon s injury rates aresp high because it s aggressive about recording worker injuries and cautious about allowing injured workers to return to work before they re ready. yeah. that s amazon says basically they re really good at counting injuries and other companies aren t as good at that. even if that were true, and a lot of workers would beg to differ, butou you know, even if you re good at counting injuries, you re still injuring a ton of people. i mean, some of these rates are just off the charts.
bathroom and women are discriminated against when pregnant. it s a problem and something we don t see, we don t feel on a daily basis. we re happy our boxes show up. the efficiency. right. at what cost you re saying in some of these companies because the new york times reports quote in amazon warehouses employees monitored by sophisticated e welcome trlectrs to ensure they are packing enough boxes an hour. amazon is particularly good. they are geniuses when it comes to vacuuming up data about every aspect of the operation and measuring people with the data. they have strict benchmarks but this is the trend in american life that especially publicly traded companies who have a fa douc f