Seven people have died on the job in Amazon's warehouses since 2013 — here's what happened (AMZN)

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April 28, 2018 2:31 PM

A new report from the nonprofit National Council for Occupational Safety and Health has put Amazon on its "dirty dozen" list for workplace safety.

A new report claims that seven
The report was compiled by National Council for Occupational Safety and Health, a private nonprofit worker advocacy group, which named it as one of their "dirty dozen" companies.

Amazon landed on the list for "a disturbing pattern of preventable deaths," the report says, including seven deaths since 2013. Eleven other companies landed on the list, including Tesla.

"Amazon workers suffer injuries – and sometimes lose their lives – in a work environment with a relentless demand to fill orders and close monitoring of employee actions," the report reads.

The seven workers at Amazon who lost their lives were involved in several different kinds of accidents and crashes. According to the report, two were crushed by forklifts in the warehouses, one was run over by a truck, one was killed by an SUV driver, one suffered a fatal heart-related event during an overnight shift, one was dragged and crushed by a conveyor belt, and one was killed and crushed by a pallet loader.

Amazon, in a statement to Business Insider, defended its workplace safety record, noting the training all employees have to go through, and its commitment to improving safety throughout its warehouse network in conjunction with its high standards.

Amazon also said that it takes "any serious incident" seriously, and is working to improve.

Read Amazon's full statement below.

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