New Expose Report on the hazardous working conditions of Amazon warehouse workers

 Citing Amazon’s own data, the NELP report found 11.1 injuries annually per 100 full-time-equivalent warehouse workers between 2018 and 2020. At non-Amazon warehouses, that rate was 5.2. The Shakopee facility is particularly dangerous, researchers noted, with an injury rate in 2020 that was higher than any industry in Minnesota.

https://advocate.stpaulunions.org/2021/12/15/report-exposes-human-cost-of-amazons-business-model-in-minnesota/ 

Clearly it is dangerous for anyone to work in a warehouse! I worked in a produce warehouse for two years. I worked in a salmon processing factory for a summer. I worked several other warehouse or factory jobs for a few months - another produce warehouse for a summer in the early 90s - a plastics factory for a couple months - a couple different recycling factory jobs for a couple months.

 What is clear from the report is that Amazon is not living up to its promise to create high-quality jobs for Minnesotans at its warehouses. If Amazon were, Tung said, its annual turnover rates – which reached 170% at the Shakopee facilities – would not be glaringly higher than other warehouses, which average 61% per year.

So this means all the workers are there LESS than a year!! Amazing. And other warehouse workers last a bit more than a year. It's basically a dangerous seasonal job with high burnout levels.