Amazon employs around 900,000 people in logistics. The crude annual mortality rate in the USA is around 911/100,000. If there are 900,000 employees working eight hours a day then around seven people a day are dying of natural causes on their shift. This is without considering that they are being worked to the bone.

>>> .00911 * (8 / (24 * 365)) * 900000 = 7.487671232876712

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acdha 19 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This only works if you assuming the mortality rates are evenly distributed. Most of the people who die are not working right until the end—and the conditions which lead to them dying usually aren’t compatible with a demanding job.

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hackingonempty 19 hours ago | parent [-]

You are correct that it is a rough estimate but my point stands. While most of us will never experience the shock of someone dying at work, it is an every day occurrence at the scale of Amazon.

	▲	acdha 7 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		You have provided no evidence supporting that belief and brushing aside the obvious challenges makes it hard to believe you have done the math. I’d also note that if this was actually true, it would be more surprising that they didn’t have a policy for dealing with it and had to improvise on the fly.
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queenkjuul 20 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

And making people continue to work when their coworker just died on the floor is nonetheless inhumane

	▲	DivingForGold 20 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Sounds like something out of a dystopian movie
	▲	hulitu 13 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		You have a deadline. /s

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6stringmerc 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The utter contempt you express for human life is abhorrent. Cloaking it in math only exacerbates your cruel disregard for, well, lacking shame in expressing such mental illness in public. I’d recommend therapy but you probably have a formula to justify not going to that either. Disgusting.

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explodes 16 hours ago | parent [-]

Whether you like it or not, these numbers provide context. The raw data make no moral judgements.

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hackingonempty 15 hours ago | parent [-]

When I saw the article I recalled a doctor who worked at the sports stadium. Probably every stadium has a doctor on duty because there are medical emergencies any time you get 50,000 people together. Sometimes people die while they are still on the premises.

So I wanted to know how approximately how many people you would expect die of natural causes per day in a group of people as large as Amazon warehouse workers.

If you expect people to die every day while working in an Amazon warehouse and there was no cause of death disclosed for the unfortunate person referenced in TFA then the fact that he died is not news.

	▲	roryirvine 13 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The death may not be particularly newsworthy, but the callous reaction of management certainly is.