The agency accused Amazon of misclassifying workplace injuries as not requiring time off work or a job transfer or restriction in cases in which they did so.
In one case, a worker’s head injury was classified as a muscle strain, OSHA said. In other cases, Amazon did not report required details about injuries.Amazon was fined about $8,300 for alleged violations in Waukegan. In total, OSHA issued about $29,000 in proposed penalties for violations at all six facilities cited, which are located in Florida, New York, Colorado and Idaho in addition to Illinois.
“We invest hundreds of millions of dollars every year into ensuring we have a robust safety program to protect [employees],” Nantel said. “Accurate recordkeeping is a critical element of that program and while we acknowledge there might have been a small number of administrative errors over the years, we are confident in the numbers we’ve reported to the government.”
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