Mental Health | Emergency call logs reveal harrowing suicidal employee crisis at Amazon

Warning: this article contains descriptions of suicidal threats.

A harrowing investigation by the Daily Beast has revealed dozens of calls made by Amazon warehouses in the past five years to emergency services about employees on the brink of suicide.

The researchers found that between October 2013 and October 2018, emergency workers were summoned to Amazon warehouses in the US at least 189 times for suicide attempts, suicidal thoughts, and other mental health episodes, according to 911 call logs, ambulance and police reports.

“I have a suicidal employee in one of our offices, he attempted to cut himself three or four times tonight,” said one such emergency call.