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What It's Like to Work at Troutdale's Notoriously Dangerous Amazon Warehouse
https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2019/12/09/27615479/what-its-like-to-work-at-troutdales-notoriously-dangerous-amazon-warehouse?fbclid=IwAR1M5Yv7OhzIc2zGfa8MjQB7B6yWIPQaK1V987TYAx0w9jIico5CPtx8aGcby Alex Zielinski Dec 9, 2019 at 5:02 pm
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Amazon doesnt want any long-term workers, he says. They want you to work hard and fast and get rid of you when your body cant take it anymore. Thats their business model.
The injury rate of workers at Troutdales Amazon warehousecalled PDX9is abnormally high, according to an investigation by Reveal, the multiplatform news organization from the nonprofit Center for Investigative Reporting. With the help of Amazon employees, Reveal was able to collect injury data from 23 of Amazons 110 fulfillment centers nationwide.
While Reveals journalists found that rate of workplace injuries at the Amazon warehouses they investigated is far above the industry standard, PDX9s was easily the worst: According to Amazons records, 26 out of every 100 workers at PDX9 sustained an injury in 2018.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics, meanwhile, found that in 2018, the average injury rate for all general warehousing and storage facilities was 4 in every 100 workers.
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What It's Like to Work at Troutdale's Notoriously Dangerous Amazon Warehouse (Original Post)
swag
Dec 2019
OP
I think this is in Portland Oregon..A reason not to purchase any goods from Amazon
Stuart G
Dec 2019
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Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)1. Sounds like MicroSoft back in the day . . .
Sanity Claws
(21,848 posts)3. When did Microsoft ever have a 26% injury rate?
I really don't understand your comment.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)6. You have obviously never worked at MicroSoft.
Go back and read the first sentence in the OP. Perfect description of how MS treated employees.
dalton99a
(81,486 posts)2. People are disposable to Bezos.
Stuart G
(38,427 posts)4. I think this is in Portland Oregon..A reason not to purchase any goods from Amazon
See second paragraph of above post..
"The injury rate of workers at Troutdales Amazon warehousecalled PDX9is abnormally high, according to an investigation by Reveal, the multiplatform news organization from the nonprofit Center for Investigative Reporting. With the help of Amazon employees, Reveal was able to collect injury data from 23 of Amazons 110 fulfillment centers nationwide."
MurrayDelph
(5,294 posts)5. Troutdale is a suburb of Portland
It's where the Historic Columbia River Highway begins
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historic_Columbia_River_Highway
which takes you past several waterfalls, the most-famous of which is Multnomah Falls.