
National COSH Announces Dirty Dozen Employers
Amazon, Starbucks and Dollar General among National Council for Occupational Safety and Healths list.
- By Alex Saurman
- Apr 28, 2022
Yesterday, the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health (COSH) announced this years dirty dozen employers, companies who have unsafe work practices.
According to a press release[1], the 12 employers are:
- Amazon (an Alabama site and nationwide)
- Atlantic Coast Utilities/Laurence Moloney (Boston, Massachusetts)
- Daikin America (Alabama)
- Dollar General (Nationwide)
- Ernst Nursery and Farms (Oregon)
- Foundation Food Group/Gold Creek Foods (Georgia)
- Hilton Hotels (Nationwide)
- Kingspan Light and Air (California)
- Liox Cleaners/Wash Supply Laundromat (New York)
- Mayfield Consumer Products (Kentucky)
- Refresco (New Jersey)
- Starbucks (Nationwide)
This is Amazons third time on the list. Amazon is on the list because of an incident at a Bessemer, Alabama facility where six workers died and because of the higher-than-average injury rate.
Some of the employers, such as Liox Cleaners/Wash Supply Laundromat, Refresco and Starbucks, are listed because they put workers at risk for COVID-19.
Others made the list because employees died while on the job, such as at Ernst Nursery and Farms. Here, a worker died during a heat wave. At Mayfield Consumer Products, nine workers died after they were told to stay on site during a tornado.
According to National COSH[2], in 2020, more than 4,700 workers died because of workplace incidents. It estimates that more than 95,000 workers die every year from long-term exposure to hazards and toxins.
National COSH announced this during Workers Memorial Week[3], a week to remember those who lost their lives on the job, and one day before Workers Memorial Day[4].
To learn more about the dirty dozen, read the press release[5].
References
- ^ press release (coshnetwork.org)
- ^ National COSH (nationalcosh.org)
- ^ Workers Memorial Week (nationalcosh.org)
- ^ Workers Memorial Day (ohsonline.com)
- ^ press release (coshnetwork.org)