Amazon’s warehouse injury rates are so high that it faces a more costly workers’ comp classification
Washington is proposing that Amazon be classified differently from other warehouse-owning companies Just last month, a stunning report showed how Amazon fulfillment centers; across the country saw rising injury rates between 2016 and 2019, sourced; from internal company data. And now, proposed legislation in Washington; state would mean Amazon could pay a higher workers’ compensation premium; than other warehouse-owning companies next year. To make this happen, the state wants to put warehouses that function like Amazon’s into a separate risk classification. While the proposed classification for “fulfillment centers” doesn’t say the word Amazon anywhere, how they are defined seems to fit the description of the company: Have an online marketplace to sell their own merchandise and third-party sellers’ merchandise; Sell their own name brand merchandise retail online; Offer warehousing and order fulfillment services for third-party sellers; Use automated vehicles and robo