A report published by Gig Workers Rising documents 50 gig workers that were killed while working for platform companies Uber, DoorDash, Lyft, Instacart, Postmates, and Grubhub since 2017. The report outlines the safety concerns of gig workers working for platform companies, the lack of protections provided by companies, and in many cases their failure to provide compensation to families.

The report also includes the following worker demands:

1. Compensation: Workers are demanding policymakers force corporations to ensure that injured or murdered workers and families receive workers’ compensation to make them whole. Policymakers should also push app corporations to compensate all impacted workers and families retroactively starting in 2016.
   
2. No forced arbitration: App corporations force workers to sign arbitration agreements, leaving individual workers and their families to fight on their own against billion dollar corporations when something happens - all in secret. Workers are demanding policy makers prevent corporations from forcing workers to sign these arbitration clauses and ensure that platform workers have the right to access the full protection of our court system.
   
3. Transparency: Every app corporation with operations in the US must publicly report data about injuries and deaths on the job each year. Workers are demanding policy makers force corporations to share data that includes information about the worker’s race, ethnicity, and gender, for each of the following incidents: Motor vehicle fatalities; Motor vehicle injuries; Fatal physical assault; Non-fatal physical assault; Sexual assault; Verbal assault; Information on the injury or death compensation paid out to workers, or their families.
   
4. A union: App workers know that corporations can do more to keep workers safe. App workers also know best what they need in order to be and to feel safe at work. Workers should have the freedom to organize, and to form independent worker organizations like a union, which would give workers the power to collectively bargain with corporations and establish policies that make this work safer.

Company comments can be found in the articles linked below.