WASHINGTON—The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued a hazard alert letter to Amazon.com Inc on Tuesday after six contractors were fatally injured and another was severely injured when a tornado struck Amazon’s Edwardsville, Illinois, warehouse in December 2021.
OSHA did not issue any violations or citations after the warehouse collapse following the Category 3 tornado, saying that Amazon’s severe weather emergency procedures met minimal federal safety guidelines for storm sheltering. But OSHA said its inspection following the incident detailed items that raised “concerns about the potential risk to employees during severe weather emergencies.”
