Federal work-safety detectives are looking into the death of an Amazon employee and an injury that possibly led to the death of another worker, including to a probe currently underway following a 3rd casualty throughout the business’s yearly Prime Day shopping occasion in mid-July.
All 3 Amazon employees passedaway within the past month and were used at business centers in New Jersey.
The brand-new Occupational Health and Safety Administration examinations are putting fresh analysis on Amazon’s injury rates and workplace-safety treatments, which have long been slammed by labor and security supporters as insufficient.
Department of Labor representative Denisha Braxton validated Thursday that the most-recent casualty took location last week at an Amazon center in Monroe Township, about 20 miles (35 kilometers) northeast of Trenton. The 2nd probe is looking into a July 24 mishap at an Amazon center in Robbinsville. The employee included in that mishap passedaway 3 days lateron, according to Braxton.
In a declaration, Robbinsville Police Chief Michael Polaski stated authorities reacted to the storagefacility, called PNE5, on July 24 after getting a report that a employee fell from a three-foot (one-meter) ladder and struck his head.
Polaski stated the employee was mindful and alert when authorities shownup. But authorities were informed CPR was carriedout on the individual by other employees previous to their arrival, he sa