As a result of Reveal reporter Will Evans’ investigation into injuries at Amazon warehouses across the country last year, sources shared a trove of internal records, giving an unprecedented view into the company’s safety record.
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Senior Reporter and Producer
Will Evans is a senior reporter and producer for Reveal, covering labor and tech. His reporting has prompted government investigations, legislation, reforms and prosecutions. A series on working conditions at Amazon warehouses was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize and won a Gerald Loeb Award. His work has also won multiple Investigative Reporters and Editors Awards, including for a series on safety problems at Tesla. Other investigations have exposed secret spying at Uber, illegal discrimination in the temp industry and rampant fraud in California's drug rehab system for the poor. Prior to joining The Center for Investigative Reporting in 2005, Evans was a reporter at The Sacramento Bee. He is based in Reveal's Emeryville, California, office.
Lawmakers demand Amazon answer for deception on worker injuries
Sen. Elizabeth Warren and others want the company to account for the ways it misled the public, press and lawmakers.
How Amazon hid its safety crisis
Robots. Prime Day. Holiday peak. Internal records show Amazon has deceived the public on rising injury rates among its warehouse workers.
Catching Amazon in a lie
Amazon says its warehouses are safe for workers. But the numbers reveal that workers are getting hurt much more often than the company claims.
‘We’re not treated like people. We’re numbers.’
This comic shares the experiences of someone working in Amazon’s Staten Island warehouse during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Inside one of Amazon’s hardest-hit warehouses: ‘Why aren’t we closing the building?’
The company’s long-simmering tensions with its warehouse workers have spilled over in the coronavirus pandemic.
Indiana shouldn’t have let Amazon off the hook for worker’s death, new investigation says
As Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb tried to land Amazon’s HQ2, state officials dropped serious safety citations against the company.
Pandemic, protests and profits
Protesters around the country are pushing to loosen stay-at-home orders. Meanwhile, some Amazon workers say not enough is being done to protect them.
Tesla workers say company risked lives by sending them to work in shutdown
“It’s pretty shady,” said one worker who was called in to fix paint on new cars.
Quarantine nation
Quarantines are supposed to contain the new coronavirus, but are the right people going into isolation, and are federal guidelines strong enough?