National COSH’s Dirty Dozen 2018 report reviewed information from health and safety activists and evaluated the “severity of injuries to workers; exposure to unnecessary and preventable risk; repeat citations by relevant state and federal authorities; and activity by workers to improve their health and safety conditions.”
According to the report, there have been seven deaths in Amazon warehouses since 2013, three of which occurred within a five-week span in 2017. At Tesla, recordable worker injuries at its factory in Fremont, Calif., were 31 percent higher than the industry average, and the rate of serious injuries was 83 percent higher than the industry average.
Here are the 12 companies National COSH dubbed “the dirty dozen,” listed in the order they appear in the report.
1. Amazon
2. Case Farms
3. Dine Brands Global (IHOP and Applebee’s)
4. JK Excavating
5. Lowe’s Home
6. Lynnway Auto Auction
7. New York and Atlantic Railway
8. Patterson UTI Energy
9. Sarbanand Farms
10. Tesla Motors
11. Verla International
12. Waste Management
Click here to access the full report.
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