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... The big picture: The online retail giant has faced intense scrutiny in recent years over allegations of unsafe or grueling work conditions.

- - - Amazon warehouses recorded over 30% more injuries than the warehousing industry average in 2023, per an analysis of company data highlighted in the report.

- - - "Amazon forces workers to operate in a system that demands impossible rates and treats them as disposable when they are injured," Sanders said in a statement. His panel's 18-month probe drew from over 130 interviews with workers and company documents.

- - - In a statement, Amazon said it cooperated with the investigation and pushed back on what it called the "biased nature" of the report and its findings.

Driving the news: The report alleged that Amazon cherry-picks data to obscure disproportionately dangerous facilities compared to other industry warehouses.

- - - Some workers interviewed said they routinely bypassed safety measures to meet "productivity requirements." The findings also cited workers who said they suffered chronic pain and temporary or permanent disabilities because of injuries sustained in Amazon warehouses.

- - - The report stated that in each of the past seven years, Amazon workers are about twice as likely to be injured as workers in non-Amazon warehouses. ...