OSHA records show amazon had twice the amount of serious injuries than lets say walmart in 2020. In 2019 their injury rate was in the 7's and it was twice the industry average.
https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/1/22463132/amazon-injury-rat...
Amazon delivery providers report injury rates even higher but don't get reported by amazon because they are technically hired by other companies.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/01/study-amazon-workers-injured...
> The SOC found that these DSPs reported injury rates of 14 and 13.3, respectively, per 100 workers. Additionally, the majority of injuries reported by DSPs in 2019 and 2020 were severe, requiring employees to take time off work to recover, the SOC said.
Comparing against the industry averages and against competitors is not the media exaggerating anything - its how you would understand what is normal or not.
edit: can't reply because hackernews is limiting my posting rate but for the poster below who asks maybe its because amazon is so good at reporting, the evidence suggests otherwise and there is no evidence to suggest they are reporting better.
It could be but the evidence suggests otherwise, so unless you have some evidence to the contrary all you're doing is conjecture. A higher injury rate is just be a higher injury rate unless there's evidence to suggest otherwise, which you don't seem to have.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/29/amazon-reportedly-downplayed...
>Amazon may also be underreporting warehouse worker injuries. A physician who inspected Amazon warehouses for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration found that workers at some Amazon facilities were being discouraged from reporting injuries and seeking outside medical care, according to Reveal.
>Another company initiative designed to curtail "lost-time injuries," or those requiring time off work, ended up preventing them from being counted as lost time, according to Reveal, directly contradicting Amazon executives' framing that such injuries were down due to enhanced safety measures.