In A Tornado-Hit Warehouse, 4 Amazon Drivers Sued The Company

Amazon is being sued by four drivers who were inside an Amazon warehouse when a tornado damaged part of it. Moreover, they want the company to pay them money.

It was a tornado that hit the Edwardsville, Illinois warehouse in December. The roof of the warehouse fell down.

A terrible tornado hit the warehouse in Dec 2021

In Dec 2021, at the Amazon warehouse in Edwardsville, Illinois, a terrible tornado hit the warehouse. Luckily, no one was hurt. The tornado caused the roof of the warehouse to fall down, killing six people.

A lawyer for the four Amazon drivers who filed a complaint together said Tuesday that they had done so. Jamarco Hickman, Evan Jensen, Jada Williams, and Deontae Yancey all worked for the company.

The company is accused of threatening employers to terminate from company

A draught of the complaint says that both Jensen and Williams wanted to go home, but warehouse officials said they would fire them if they did, so they did not go.

Yancey was told to hide in a bathroom at the warehouse, and when he tried to leave, warehouse officials told him to stay, the suit says.

The lawsuit says that when Hickman came back from his delivery route, he was told to stay in the restrooms of the warehouse.

Virden’s partner told The New York Post that he texted her to say that Amazon wouldn’t let him leave until the storm had passed.

Drivers are suing Amazon because they say the company didn’t change workers’ schedules even though they knew about the storm.

What lawsuit says?

The lawsuit says that the drivers were inside the warehouse when the tornado hit. They suffered “devastating physical and emotional injuries.” It doesn’t say more about what happened to the drivers, though.

An attorney for the drivers said in a press statement that Amazon had many chances to put the safety of their employees first, but they chose to make money instead.

As soon as Crump said he was representing the mother of a worker who died in the collapse, he also said he was going to file a new lawsuit against the company.

The company didn’t answer right away when Insider asked about the drivers’ lawsuit.

The family of Austin McEwen, also sued Amazon in January

The family of Austin McEwen, a driver who died in the accident, also sued Amazon in January.

McEwen’s family said that the company didn’t get the warehouse out of the way quickly enough. At the time, Amazon told Insider that the lawsuit “misunderstands important facts” about how much warning the facility had about a storm and that the lawsuit should not go forward.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is looking into the collapse of the Edwardsville warehouse. The House Oversight Committee said earlier this month that it was going to look into the same thing, too.

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