911 calls from Amazon warehouses show emotional distress and suicide threats

The Daily Beast reported that emergency services were called to different Amazon warehouses around the US at least 189 times between October 2013 and October 2018 to respond to workers’ “suicide attempts, suicidal thoughts, and other mental health episodes.” An investigation from The Daily Beast found that “emergency workers were summoned to Amazon warehouses at least 189 times for suicide attempts, suicidal thoughts, and other mental health episodes” between October 2013 and October 2018, at 46 fulfillment centers around the United States. The Daily Beast noted that its report was “not evidence that Amazon staffers experience suicidal episodes more often than other American workers, in or out of a warehouse.”

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