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Federal OSHA cites Amazon for ergonomic hazards tied to robotic/automated pace of work

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Record

CompanyAmazon
Categorywarehouse automation
Typeregulatory
Date
Time of daynot documented
Locationno physical site (recall / fleet-wide / aggregate record)
SeverityS3 (recall, enforcement, or fleet-wide fault)
Scale3+ facilities cited, up to $46,875 in penalties
Confidencehigh
VerificationCited source on file; not independently re-verified
SourceCNBC

What happened

OSHA cited Amazon warehouses in New Windsor NY, Waukegan IL, and Deltona FL for ergonomic hazards, finding that Amazon's equipment and production operations - including its own robots - combined with pace/quota systems to create serious injury risk; part of a wider series of 2023 citations across multiple facilities.

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