"PACKAGING PAIN: Workplace Injuries in Amazon's Empire", December 2019

...This report relies on data... logs collected from Amazon warehouses around the country to develop a systematic understanding of health and safety performance at the company’s facilities and identify solutions for making these workplaces safer for workers. Amazon’s own internal data paints a very troubling picture about what is happening inside the company’s fulfillment centers... [including]:

• ...Injury rates... three times as high as the injury rate across all private employers...
• ...88.9 percent of workers who were injured had to miss work or be placed on restricted duty...
• Injury rates spike during the peak holiday shopping season between Black Friday and Christmas...