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Amazon employees share stories of accidents and mistreatment

Amazon employees share stories of accidents and mistreatment

Amazon has come under scrutiny for the awful conditions that some workers say they are forced to work in.

Thirty-one current or recently employed drivers spoke to Business Insider about their experience delivering packages for Amazon.

Among those employees was delivery driver Zachariah Vargus. He says that he was six hours into his shift delivering packages for Amazon when he accidentally slammed the truck door on his fingers. His middle and ring fingers were trapped as soon as the door clicked shut.

He recalls blood pouring from his fingers after he managed to free them. The lacerations were so deep that he thought he caught a glimpse of bone once he had wiped all of the blood away.

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