Warehouse Automation Injuries: A Workers Compensation Lawyer’s Take
I have spent enough time at loading docks, in break rooms, and across conference tables to recognize the sound of a new kind of warehouse injury. It is the whir of a sortation line that never sleeps, the chirp of an autonomous cart inching behind a picker, the buzz of a scanner prompting the next task before the last motion has finished. Automation has changed the shape of warehouse work. It has not erased risk. It has shifted it in ways that catch people off guard. When