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Employee dies in Amazon warehouse in Oregon as colleagues are forced to keep working around the body

 

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Amazon has also patented a system that would put workers inside a cage mounted on a robot.

On April 6, a worker at Amazon’s PDX9 warehouse in Troutdale, Oregon, collapsed on the floor while helping unload trucks. His body lay motionless on the spot while the other workers continued their tasks around him, with the package conveyor belts running normally.

In 911 calls obtained via a public records request, one employee asked for an ambulance and was given instructions on how to use a defibrillator. In a second call, another worker told the dispatcher that the colleague had extensive blood coming from his head and a purplish appearance — clear signs that he had already died.

For more than an hour, warehouse operations continued without interruption. A supervisor reportedly ordered employees to turn away and not look at the body, instructing everyone to go back to work. Workers said they were in shock, some trembling uncontrollably, and received no explanation from management about what had happened.

An investigation by the independent outlet The Western Edge revealed that Amazon tried to prevent the death from becoming public. The case only came to light a week later when the publication released its report. Employees said they only learned about the incident through word of mouth in the hallways, with no official communication from the company.

Amazon confirmed the death and stated that OSHA — Oregon’s occupational safety agency — determined the incident was not related to working conditions. However, employees reported that excessive heat inside the warehouse, worsened by recently installed acoustic isolation curtains that reduced ventilation, may have contributed to the event.

In a statement, the company expressed regret for the loss, made grief counselors available on site, and sent workers home with pay after the incident. Even so, the case has reignited the debate about conditions in the company’s warehouses: OSHA data from 2024 show that Amazon’s distribution centers have rates of serious injuries more than twice the industry average.

Sources: https://www.thewesternedge.media/p/everyone-is-replaceable-death-rattles https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/13/an-amazon-warehouse-worker-died-on-the-job-at-oregon-facility/ https://thepostmillennial.com/oregon-amazon-worker-dies-on-warehouse-floor-workers-told-to-keep-working https://www.wionews.com/world/amazon-worker-dies-at-oregon-warehouse-operations-continued-around-body-here-s-what-we-know-1776171865513


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