OSHA Cites Amazon for Failing to Document Warehouse Accidents

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Amazon.com Inc. didn’t file accidents and diseases at warehouses across the U.S., based on federal office security regulators, a discovering that undermines the corporate’s pledges to enhance employee security in its services.

The Occupational Security and Well being Administration cited the Seattle-based e-commerce large for 14 record-keeping violations throughout an ongoing probe of six services in Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Illinois and New York. The unrecorded incidents included accidents to wrists, knees, backs and shoulders that resulted in workers lacking work, OSHA stated.

“Fixing well being and security issues within the office requires harm and sickness information to be correct and clear,” OSHA chief Doug Parker stated in a launch. “Our concern is that nothing can be performed to maintain an harm from recurring if it isn’t even recorded within the logbook which — in an organization the scale of Amazon — might have vital penalties for numerous employees.”

Amazon faces fines of $29,008 for the violations.

“The protection of our workers is our prime precedence, and we make investments a whole lot of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} yearly into guaranteeing we’ve got a sturdy security program to guard them,” Kelly Nantel, an organization spokesperson, stated in an e-mail. “Correct record-keeping is a important factor of that program and whereas we acknowledge there might have been small administrative errors over time, we’ve been assured within the numbers we’ve reported to the federal government. We’re happy that OSHA reached the identical conclusion right this moment.”

Amazon ranks No. 19 on the Transport Subjects Prime 100 checklist of the most important personal carriers in North America.

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