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— Delivery driver Alonzo Harris was wrapping up his shift around 8 p.m. last Friday when his Amazon-issued phone started buzzing with a weather alert. Unfortunately, the automated voice reading the alert aloud as he drove was in Spanish, he said.... He couldn’t read the tornado warnings that local authorities were sending to his personal phone, either, because he was driving.Wp Get the full experience. Choose your plan ArrowRight Harris stopped at a gas station to fill up his van.... It also i

Kelly Nantel, an Amazon spokesperson, however, said employees receive emergency response training, which is “ reinforced throughout the year ”.... Nantel said the company’s buildings have “ emergency plans that identify exit routes and shelter areas ”.... It said it will also send hazard alert letters to three delivery service providers, who employed the injured worker and five of the employees who died....

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois: The family of a delivery driver who died last month when a tornado collapsed the central Illinois Amazon facility where he worked filed a wrongful death lawsuit Monday in Madison County. The action on behalf of Austin McEwen, 26, claims that Amazon failed to warn employees of dangerous weather or provide safe shelter before a tornado slammed the Edwardsville facility Dec 10, killing McEwen and five others.It is believed to be the first legal action taken in response to the