Parents of worker killed in tornado that hit Amazon facility are suing the company for wrongful death

Every time a tech company is sued, an angel gets its wings.

Not that I have any love lost for Amazon, but are they blaming Jeff Bezos not turning on his machine that controls the weather?

R2, workers were not allowed to leave despite storm warnings.

I think the real issue is those flimsy trailers that they house the workers and products in. Talk about cost cutting.

The truth is that Amazon knew those “structures” could not withstand tornados. So they made a calculation. The cost of being sued (not to mention dead employees) is cheaper than building safe structures.

So in other words, judgment for the plaintiff!

I was a desk clerk at a hotel in college. I went through several tornado warnings while standing at my post. I was the only person who could directly communicate with our guests. I know I was lucky, but my home was hit by a tornado when I was fourteen years old, so I was a bit immune from the scare.

What a mess.

I have to tell you, at first the information we had was that they had an above-ground safety area that the employees went to, and I thought that maybe for once Amazon didn't do anything strictly wrong.

Then we found out that the drivers were barely able to get back in time and I had to wonder why, and a few days later we see all the texts from supervisors telling drivers they had to keep delivering, that the main Amazon authority wouldn't allow drivers to stop their routes during a tornado and seek shelter.

Then we found out those safety areas were just bathrooms, and the people who were killed were drivers who had barely gotten back to the warehouse and who ran into a bathroom for safety, just as they had been told to do.

I say they should sue Amazon into fucking oblivion.

[quote]workers were not allowed to leave despite storm warnings

You're not supposed to leave a building and go driving around when there's a tornado on the way. That's stupid. I'm sorry people here who have never lived in tornado country don't know that, but leaving the building and getting into your car isn't smart.

You can't say "the drivers should have been allowed to stop delivering and seek shelter" AND say "the employees should have been allowed to leave the building and go drive around." That's contradictory.

The problem is that the warehouse didn't actually have a safe room like they claimed, they just told people to hide in the bathrooms. IL doesn't require underground tornado shelters in workplaces so Amazon didn't strictly break the law in that detail, but I can't figure out if IL requires an interior safe room in warehouses. Even if IL doesn't require that, I would bet anything that those buildings were not up to code, they were INCREDIBLY flimsy. Plus they didn't allow drivers to stop delivering.

“You can't say "the drivers should have been allowed to stop delivering and seek shelter" AND say "the employees should have been allowed to leave the building and go drive around." That's contradictory.”

These were two different sets of people, you stupid moron.

At two different times in the storyline.

Get that money!!

R9 is too dumb to be on the jury.

[quote]These were two different sets of people, you stupid moron.

No, they were all Amazon employees. Employees in the warehouse weren't allowed to leave, as someone already mentioned, but the drivers who were out delivering packages weren't allowed to come back.

You're trying too hard to start a fight. Go find someone else to alleviate your boredom.