In the US, in the state of Illinois at a warehouse, Amazon is facing an inquiry over the safety and health policies when 6 workers died, when the warehouse building was demolished by a tornado.
One of the victim’s sisters commented on social media, “this would never happen if they cared about lives of peoples over productivity.”
While the company says, in response to the tornado its team had worked fast. On Friday, the roof of the warehouse collapsed due to the storm striking.
An Amazon speaker, Kelly Nantel, addressed that the company is extremely depressed by these deaths.
Clayton Cope, 29, is one among those who died in the warehouse, spoke with his family on phone, soon the mother of Clayton Carla addressed, she had called her son for warning him about the tornado’s approach.
Carla informed NBC affiliated television station KSDK, “We brief him it appears like storm heading that way and he requires a shelter to get in.”
She also stated that “earlier Clayton was trained under Navy and if he would know then he would warn his co-workers firstly.”
Presently, the inquiry is being set, questioning, whether workers were advised to go there quickly, whether adequate shelter was available for workers, and whether the shift have delayed ahead that evening for informing about severe weather.
Amazon addressed when BBC contacted, as the events were “happening extremely fast”, the Edwardsville site has received an alert of the tornado in between 20:06 and 20:16 according to the local time, before striking the tornado to the building at 20:27.
However, the company mentioned that, the team has worked “extremely fast” and ensured that as many partners, workers and employees could reach the site place of shelter.
Austin J McEwen, 26, one of the cargo drivers, died in the bathroom, whereas many of the workers stated that, they have been guided to get into the shelter after receiving an emergency alert on their cell phones.
David Kosiak, 26, who was working for three months in the facility sector, said just I was getting inside the building and they started shouting and crying, “shelter in place! We were at the bathrooms, that is where they sent all of us.”
Mr. Kosiak also said that “It was very loud sound like a train coming through the building and the tiles of the ceiling came down flying. Until we left, they made us ‘shelter in place’ and we were there for almost two and a half hours.”
However, Amazon stated that obeying the company procedures of tornado alert was for all the employees to be ‘directed and notified in the designated and pointed shelter in place location.”
While the firm addressed that, “most of our team had taken shelter at the assigned location, but a small group of individuals had taken shelter in a part of a building and that was hit by the tornado, this is the situation where the loss of many lives taken place.”
But the sister of Clayton stated at BBC, that from the conversation among her parents and brother she came to know that, her brother and other workers were not instantly informed and alert them to shelter after sounding the siren of first warning.
On Friday evening, the deadly storms have been through six US states by damaging homes and businesses approx.200 miles that is a 322 km area with almost 100 people’s death.
In the city of Mayfield, Kentucky eight people’s death was noted in the factory of the candle.
The National Weather Services stated that the storm had escalated quickly and hit the Amazon warehouse with the winds of almost expanding at 150 miles per hour that is 241 km per hour, by ripping the roof of the warehouse at the size of a football field structure. Even 11 inches that are 28 cm thick wall made of concrete fell by itself.
