Senate probe finds Amazon manipulates workplace injury data

FOR YEARS, WORKER advocates and some government officials have argued that Amazon's strict production quotas lead to high rates of injury for its warehouse employees.

- NOAM SCHEIBER

And for years, Amazon has rejected the criticism, arguing that it doesn't use strict quotas, and that its injury rates are falling close to or below the industry average.

On Sunday, the majority staff of the Senate Committee on health, education, labor, and pensions, which is chaired by Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, published an investigation that found that Amazon itself had documented the link between its quotas and elevated injury rates.