The collapse of an Amazon warehouse in Edwardsville, Illinois, has spurred questions about the company's workplace safety policies.
The collapse of an Amazon warehouse in Edwardsville, Illinois, has spurred questions about the company's workplace safety policies and whether federal regulations on emergency preparedness should be strengthened.
Amazon spokesperson Kelly Nantel said during the news conference that the building was constructed consistent with code. At 8:06 p.m. local time, the National Weather Service sent out an emergency alert of a tornado warning in the area. After hours of laying underneath concrete rubble, Yost was freed by emergency responders and airlifted to the nearby Saint Louis University Hospital, Deckard said. He sustained serious injuries,Last week, after undergoing surgery, Yost was released from Saint Louis University Hospital and is recovering at home, Deckard said.
While the workers often wear Amazon uniforms and drive Amazon-branded vans, they are technically employees of the third-party delivery firms they work for. This arrangement, which has become increasingly standard among gig economy companies, hasSome delivery drivers who were still on the road Dec. 10 as the weather worsened were told to park their vehicle in a designated area or just drive home, said Summer Paolini, a dispatcher for Boxify Logistics at the Edwardsville warehouse.
The majority of employees that were in the building at the time that the tornado hit were huddled in a shelter area located in an interior room near the facility's north side, Nantel told reporters at the news conference last week. The workers pointed to a lack of tornado drills and inadequate shelter areas as shortcomings in Amazon's safety policies. Jameisha Ross, an Amazon warehouse worker at another Edwardsville facility, known as STL6, said her site has a "severe weather assembly area," designated by a sign hanging from the ceiling, that is "surrounded by very heavy bulk items."Jameisha Ross
say that basements, storm cellars or small interior rooms provide the best protection from a tornado. But the federal government doesn't require specially built storm shelters in warehouses. Additionally, when there are violations discovered as a result of an OSHA investigation, the monetary penalties are typically several thousand dollars, a paltry sum for many large corporations.
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