Monday, November 25, 2019

in Dec 2018, The National Council for Occupational Safety and Health (National COSH) placed Amazon on its 2018 “Dirty Dozen" report of "employers who put workers and communities at risk.".

It's not going to matter to Amazon though, it's not going to adversely affect business... want to know why?

Amazon is too big for anyone to keep their integrity and principles about safety first, and that includes OSHA. It even includes Indiana's governor, Eric Holcomb.

Because Amazon's doing business in any one location is SO lucrative, Indiana state labor officials quietly absolved Amazon of responsibility for the death of Phillip Terry, who was killed on Sept. 2017, when his head was crushed by a forklift at an Amazon warehouse in Plainfield, Ind.

Indiana state labor officials deleted every fine that had been levied and accepted the company’s argument — that the Amazon worker was to blame.

How exactly do we know that for a fact? The OSHA investigator was so upset at being told HOW the outcome was going to result in the blame being put on the dead man, he recorded the meeting where his boss, Indiana OSHA Director Julie Alexander, counseled Amazon on how to lessen the fine.

The OSHA investigator says pressure to back off came from the governor’s mansion.

WHY? 5 billion dollars invested and 50,000 jobs, that was what Amazon brought to the state


So Julie Alexander, the Indiana OSHA director, called Amazon officials and told them what she’d need from them in order to shift the blame from the company to “employee misconduct”

Indiana Labor Commissioner Rick Ruble was in his office, with the governor of Indiana, and told the OSHA investigator, John Stallone, to back off on the Amazon case — or resign.


As he surveyed the site of the accident, Stallone quickly figured out the problem: A tall pole, lying just feet away, should have been used to prop up the forklift during maintenance. In a recording he made of his inspection, Stallone asked an Amazon manager whether there was any written documentation of Terry being trained on that.

“No, sir,” the supervisor says on the recording. He told Stallone that Terry had been informally trained by a co-worker.

Stallone interviewed a co-worker of Terry’s, who put the blame on Amazon’s safety culture coming in second to production demands.

“The safety issues I’ve brought up have been dismissed and not dealt with,” the worker said in a signed statement. “I want to see the safety culture in Amazon change and ensure the maintenance workers have the appropriate amount of training. There’s no training, there’s no safety

https://www.ehstoday.com/safety/does-amazon-care-about-worker-safety
https://www.indystar.com/story/news/investigations/2019/11/25/amazon-indiana-governor-eric-holcomb-warehouse-accident-hq-2/4282653002/

I thought you might want to know before thinking about getting a job at Amazon, or letting your family or friends apply for a job with Amazon, that it's not just dangerous and a roll back of a hundred years of employee safety measures, but OSHA itself is looking the other way, and will blame the dead, and that's likely to burn the life insurance for that dead employees family.

This type of thing is why I have a news tag,  https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/news
and why I have a safety tag  https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/safety
Because I didn't hear anything about this in the news, did you?

2 comments:

  1. You think we should think twice about working for the amazons? How about thinking twice about buying crap from them?

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    1. I can't figure out a way to make my way through this life without gas for my car, even though it makes the oil company bastards richer, you know? And I can't figure out how to find and buy cool old stuff without Ebay... you see where I'm going? I haven't figured out how to save a bit more when buying stuff unless I'm price comparing online and normally, Amazon is the way to save more, and stretch my paycheck farther, when I occasionally need to buy online. SO, it maybe necessary while having principles, to deal with corporations that don't. Since we must, until we figure out a better way, it's better to know the score, and see the whole picture.
      What do you think about that?

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