>All six workers who died at Amazon facilities and operations during the past six months were employees of
other firms or contract workers, rather than full-time Amazon employees.
● Andrew Lindsay and Israel Espana Argote, contract workers, died when the wall of an Amazon
warehouse collapsed during a severe storm in Baltimore in November 2018.
● Brien James Daunt fell to his death during construction of an Amazon warehouse in Oildale, CA in
January 2019. Falls from a height are a well-known – and preventable – hazard in the construction
industry, with long-established protocols to reduce risks. CalOSHA is investigating the incident.
● Aviators Ricky Blakely, Conrad Jules Aska and Sean Archuleta died in February when an Air Atlas
plane, carrying cargo for Amazon, crashed into Trinity Bay, southeast of Texas. Blakely and Aska
worked for Air Atlas and were members of the Airline Professional Association (APA), Teamsters Local
224. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is investigating the incident.
> All six workers who died at Amazon facilities and operations during the past six months were employees of other firms or contract workers, rather than full-time Amazon employees.
That changes nothing. They were working to Amazon's rules at Amazon operations. Amazon bears responsibility for the firms they choose to work with and the requirements they give them.
Okay, sure but contractors dying in accidents at a work site is a hugely different narrative than "Amazon is working their warehouse staff... to death" which is what is currently happening.
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>All six workers who died at Amazon facilities and operations during the past six months were employees of other firms or contract workers, rather than full-time Amazon employees.
● Andrew Lindsay and Israel Espana Argote, contract workers, died when the wall of an Amazon warehouse collapsed during a severe storm in Baltimore in November 2018.
● Brien James Daunt fell to his death during construction of an Amazon warehouse in Oildale, CA in January 2019. Falls from a height are a well-known – and preventable – hazard in the construction industry, with long-established protocols to reduce risks. CalOSHA is investigating the incident.
● Aviators Ricky Blakely, Conrad Jules Aska and Sean Archuleta died in February when an Air Atlas plane, carrying cargo for Amazon, crashed into Trinity Bay, southeast of Texas. Blakely and Aska worked for Air Atlas and were members of the Airline Professional Association (APA), Teamsters Local 224. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is investigating the incident.