Peak Seasons, Peak Injuries: Amazon Warehouses Are Especially Dangerous During Prime Day and the Holiday Season—and the Company Knows It

On July 16 and 17, 2024, Amazon will hold its annual Prime Day event, where it discounts products for Amazon Prime subscribers. The event is a major source of revenue for the company, but Prime Day is also a major cause of injuries for the warehouse workers who make it possible. As part of an ongoing investigation into Amazon’s warehouse safety practices, Sen Bernie Sanders (D-VT), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP Committee), is releasing this interim report on the extremely unsafe conditions in Amazon warehouses during Prime Day and the holiday season and calling on the company to do more to protect warehouse workers. This interim report sheds light on Amazon workers’ experiences during Prime Day and the holiday season—where the rate of recordable injuries is over 10 injuries per 100 workers, more than double the industry average.