Amazon Prime Day is an especially dangerous time for warehouse workers, Senate report says [Video]

Amazon’s annual Prime Day promotion kicked off on Tuesday, with the event offering deals for members and generating billions in revenue for the retailer. It can also raise the risk of getting hurt for the company’s hundreds of thousands of warehouse workers, according to a new congressional report. 

Amazon warehouse workers are more than twice as likely to be injured during the Prime Day event than their industry peers, with its reportable injuries surpassing 10 per 100 workers during Prime Day 2019, according to findings released Monday by Bernie Sanders, chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.

“The incredibly dangerous working conditions at Amazon revealed in this investigation are a perfect example of the type of corporate greed that the American people are sick and tired of,” Sanders said Tuesday.

The injury rate increases when including incidents that aren’t reported to government regulators, noted the report, which based its conclusions …