Amazon Uses Automation to Hide a Disastrous Record of Workplace Injuries

As robotization scales up, so do injuries

Brian Merchant
OneZero
Published in
4 min readSep 30, 2020

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For the last decade, Amazon has been on an automation spree. The retail behemoth is mechanizing its warehouses, buying up robotics companies, and transforming its facilities into state-of-the-art, semi-automated distribution centers. The goal is clear enough: to move, sort…

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Brian Merchant
OneZero

Senior editor, OneZero, books, futures, fiction. Author of The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone, founder of Terraform @ Motherboard @ VICE.