Amazon Workers United for Safety: Our Lives Are on the Line

We’re building a movement of Amazon workers to take on the safety crisis at Amazon and win health and safety improvements at our jobs. We provide tools, research, and resources to take action to better working conditions at Amazon warehouses across the country.
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Amazon's injury crisis by the numbers

Understanding the safety crisis starts with the data. Explore worker injury records from Amazon facilities across the United States, both by individual facilities and across larger geographies. 

Who we are

Amazon Workers United for Safety is a community of Amazon workers seeking to organize to improve safety conditions at warehouses and other facilities around the country. Amazon Workers United for Safety is a project of the Strategic Organizing Center.

Stories from Amazon workers

Read firsthand accounts of Amazon workers who have faced serious risks and experienced life-altering injuries at Amazon facilities across the United States.

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Iesha Conley

I worked at Amazon’s fulfillment warehouse JFK8 as a full-time picker. In November of 2020, while picking items on a...

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Torrie Washington

At Amazon, speed mattered more than safety. I injured my back pushing and pulling heavy carts across the warehouse and...

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Thomas Walls

My brother-in-law, Rodger, was a beloved member of our family. Two years ago, he fell off a ladder at an...

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Denise J. Jenkins

I started working for Amazon in January of 2022 as a stower. This job required me to lift heavy objects...

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R. Craig Bolander

I started working at Amazon in 2020 during the peak of COVID at DFW7 in Texas. I started out as...

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Lisa Salas

I worked at Amazon for five years, and in April 2023 I injured my back on the night shift while...

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Jeffrey Swindle

I worked as a stacker, pallet jack, and in moving and labeling at several Amazon facilities in Washington, including BFI4...

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Our reports

Since 2020, the SOC has exposed Amazon’s ongoing failure to keep workers safe by analyzing Amazon’s own injury data, conducting surveys of Amazon workers, and collecting firsthand accounts of the dangerous conditions they face on the job.

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Featured Report

Failure to Deliver: Amazon Falls Short on Safety

Four years after Amazon pledged to cut its injury rate in half by 2025, SOC’s analysis of the company’s 2024 injury data found that four in ten Amazon workers in the US worked in facilities where the injury rate increased...

Worker resources

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Share your story

Do you currently work or have you worked at an Amazon facility? Have you experienced productivity rate pressure or other working conditions that threatened your health and safety? Have you suffered an injury on the job? You are not alone. Share your story with us today.

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