An Amazon worker collapsed and passed away on the warehouse floor as staff were told to work around the body.
— Amazon workers in Oregon allege the company told them to continue to work while a worker lay dead in the facility, according to reporting from The Western Edge.
On April 6, a 46-year-old worker collapsed and died on the second level of an Amazon warehouse.
The worker was a “tote runner,” according to employees. Tote runner jobs involve gathering stacks of yellow plastic bins as tall as a person, loading them onto a cart and hauling them up and down the long corridors of the warehouse for delivery to other workers, who will fill them with the goods that go onto trucks.
An employee who called for an ambulance told the dispatcher, “We have an associate here who I believe is probably dead. This person does have extensive blood coming from their head. They are very blue looking.”
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Several employees acknowledged being instructed to continue fetching totes, picking items off shelves and loading them onto trucks for delivery as the man lay dead. According to the Western Edge, as a woman performed CPR, another employee asked if he could help. A manager told them, “It has to be management or safety team,” and to “just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work.” The employee told Western Edge that the manager may have been in shock as he said it.
First responders arrived on the scene, which led to the area where the worker lay eventually being closed off.
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