Posted on 05/03/2022 3:47:03 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. (AP) — The mother of a man who was killed in December when a tornado slammed into an Amazon facility in Illinois said on Tuesday that her son was only in the building because he was called into work on his day off.
“It breaks my heart that DeAndre was scheduled to take his day off but was called from dispatch to work an extra shift,” said Deon January, the mother of DeAndre Morrow.
January, whose son was one of six people killed Dec. 10 when the tornado obliterated nearly half of the sprawling facility in the southwestern Illinois community of Edwardsville, appeared with attorney Ben Crump, who has filed a wrongful death lawsuit on her behalf.
“We believe (the tragedy) was completely preventable if Amazon lived up to its words,” said Crump, a prominent civil rights and personal injury attorney whose clients have included the families of George Floyd and, more recently, the family of Patrick Lyoya, who was fatally shot last month by a Grand Rapids, Mich., police officer. “And those words were ‘We aim to be Earth’s safest place to work. We are committed to ensuring the safety and wellbeing of all Amazon employees every day.’ ”
Crump and January were joined by several other people, including four people who survived the tornado at the facility, and said they now suffer from PTSD.
“Because of Amazon’s apathy and greed, I had to do what no mother should. Bury my child,” January said.
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This is a simple workers compensation case. Crump is just bull sh*ting and probably charging the family a huge fee.
“same sepia tone “
Remember it well.
But the closest I ever came to driving through a tornado was here in Maryland. I was driving home after work and they were reporting a nado about 20 miles away then I saw a huge tree flying across the road I was driving on!
Kept driving. Had 2 kidlets at home and had to get them to the basement.
He was probably going to make big OT pay and he was not forced to come in...just say no
I must admit, I also struggle with the advice in case of a tornado to leave your vehicle and lie down in a low spot during rain. I’m going to GTFO which seems like a much better option.
The tornado is to blame, not the employer. How would Amazon know a tornado was going to hit the warehouse? Would it be her son’s fault if he’d stayed home and the tornado killed him there?
“Deep pockets attract foul-smelling beasts.”
“You may be eligible for ample financial compensation”.
You lost Me at “Benjamin Crump”.
CC
Wanna bet ?
(color me somewhat cynical)
Wouldn’t it make more sense to shout at the tornado?
I mean Amazon didn’t just invite the tornado in. Sure dont think they wanted it to destroy their warehouse and employees.
She shouldnt be out making such statements if shes actually mourning. Seems like you have to have another agenda going on to take you away from family and mkurning to do what she did.
This is a nuisance lawsuit.
The attorney should be disbarred.
Even mighty Amazon cannot control the weather.
I thought the low spot during rain thing was if you are on a golf course or any open space during a bad lightning storm.
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But Amazon can build basements in Tornado Alley. That ain’t hard.
Grew up in Tornado Alley. A Basement is just plain common sense.
Not having one is negligent.
The truck factory in North Texas where I worked had 18” reinforced cement “Islands” throughout the plant. They served as bathrooms, offices and medical. Each had at least to doors and were just short walks from anywhere in the plant. In 33 years we real short walk alert 6 times and drills once a year. Long waks were fire drills and you went outside, had two real ones of those but they were just minor.
Because they knew the conditions were favorable for a tornado?
The locality could easily have required such a basement in their building code.
If they did not then the plaintiff should sue the local authorities.
If you live in Southern Illinois, you are rolling the dice every year that a tornado catches you. And those tornado warnings don’t give you a 3 day “heads up” like hurricane warnings.
If Amazon can’t operate when conditions are favorable for a tornado, then they have to close their facilities in Southern Illinois, and quite a few other states, for probably 3 months a year. Americans aren’t going to wait that long for their cheap crap deliveries.
Some other poster noted they really should have had a basement/shelter, and that’s probably the real negligence at play here.
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