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Carteret NJ, Federal work-safety investigators are looking into the death of an Amazon worker and an injury that potentially led to the death of another employee, adding to a probe already underway following a fatality during the company’s annual Prime Day shopping event in mid-July.
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All three Amazon workers died within the past month and were employed at company facilities in New Jersey. The new Occupational Health and Safety Administrationn (OSHA )
investigations are putting fresh scrutiny on Amazon’s injury rates and workplace safety procedures, which labor and safety advocates have long criticized as inadequate.
Department of Labor spokesperson Denisha Braxton confirmed Thursday that the most recent fatality took place last week at an Amazon facility in Monroe Township, about 20 miles northeast of Trenton. The second probe is looking into a July 24 accident at an Amazon facility in Robbinsville. The worker involved in that accident died three days later.
The worker deaths occurred as both unionization efforts and scrutiny of Amazon’s safety practices intensified in New Jersey and nationwide.
