Federal OSHA cites Amazon for ergonomic hazards tied to robotic/automated pace of work
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Record
| Company | Amazon |
| Industry | Warehouse automation |
| Type(s) | regulatory |
| Date | not documented (date not documented) |
| Time of day | not documented |
| Location | no physical site (recall / fleet-wide / aggregate record) |
| Severity | (recall, enforcement, or fleet-wide fault) |
| Scale | 3+ facilities cited, up to $46,875 in penalties |
| Confidence | high |
| Verified flag | Cited source on file; not independently re-verified |
Summary
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.
Primary source
Publisher: CNBC · Retrieved: 2026-09-16
Supporting source rows (1)
| Date | Supporting source row | Publisher | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| not documented | Federal OSHA cites Amazon for ergonomic hazards tied to robotic/automated pace of work | CNBC | CNBC |
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