Whistleblower: Amazon let off the hook after worker’s death
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- In late 2017, as Indiana geared up to bid for Amazon’s new headquarters location, an Amazon warehouse worker near Indianapolis was fatally injured.
Phillip “Lee” Terry was doing routine maintenance on a forklift when the forks and heavy platform suddenly came down and killed him. Just a few feet away from the site of the accident was a device that would have saved his life. Why didn’t he use it?
This was John Stallone’s question when he began investigating the case for the Indiana state Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Stallone determined Amazon should be held responsible for Terry’s death and a lack of safety training, but the company ended up paying no fines for the fatality. Stallone describes a cozy relationship between Indiana officials and Amazon. He shared his story with Reveal reporter Will Evans for the first time.
In the second of a two-part series with PBS NewsHour, Reveal closely follows a trail of documents and witnesses to investigate why an Amazon worker was blamed for his own death.
Credits:
Reporter: Will Evans
Data Reporter: Melissa Lewis
Managing Editor: Andrew Donohue
Producer: Rachel de Leon
Videographers: Rachel de Leon, David Duncan, Josh Gaal
Production Assistants: Skyler Glover, Nathan Shuttleworth
Consulting Producer: Katharine Mieszkowski
Senior Producer/Editor: David Ritsher
Senior Producer: Adam Raney
Executive Editor: Esther Kaplan
Executive Producers: Amanda Pike, Sara Just
Editor in Chief: Matt Thompson
$28,000 is nothing to amazon, and yet they think a man's life is not worth that much. Pretty sad.
What's really sick is that Amazon, like most big corporations, had a life insurance policy on their workers (like property insurance) and collected at least $100,000. Not a penny goes to the families when these deaths on corporate jobs occur.
For real???
Amazon, like many corporations, cares about nothing except shareholder value. Pretty sad.
It’s so bad. Something has to be done
Amazon needs to be held accountable.
How??
Family should sue
Can you do an investigative piece on Green Oaks Mental Health Facility in Dallas the reviews speak for themselves from abuse of patients to death and involuntary electro-shock therapy it's the stuff out of a horror movie. I went there once worst experience of my life almost died twice.
Did you get it looked into? My dad said patients with regular visitors always get treated better.
Common sense is just gone in this world 🌍
It's not gone, the rich and powerful wilfully neglect basic decency to generate extra wealth they don't need and at the end they will pay even less taxes by hiring lobbyist, lawyers and accountants.
It's disgusting.
nicely said.
"No training, no safety" Hmm, my 3 hours worth of training videos says otherwise
what?
@@wesleythomas7705 When you apply to work at Amazon, they make you go through a few long training videos. Then, of course, you do a bit of in person training. The fact is, he said "no training, no safety," which of course is false
@@joekeller8936 You sound pretty angry over this, you ok buddy?
@@wesleythomas7705 I'm not at all upset over this, lol. I just don't like when people stretch truths, especially over something as serious as a company putting its workers lives potentially at risk.
What are you talking about none of y’all making any sense
I'm sorry Terry, that was just bad practice on your part. Complacency is one of the killers when working with equipment. I've work with equipment, I know. After a while the big equipment is just like your car, you get used to it. Not enforcing it it a different thing from not providing it, which they should still be held accountable for.
It is a problem in warehouses to be noted though, that as automation and equipment goes up, accidents increase. It's a sad middle ground, but the options are to go fully automated and fire most workers, or become a sweatshop.
You have no idea what Amazon is like besides the machines.
@@Delightfullala yes yes, but you have no idea what Amazon is like besides the machines either.
Judge much?
I worked at Amazon and know first hand.
So actually I do know !
@@Delightfullala didn't understand the comment did you. You have no idea about my experiences which Is why I say that you judge too much and threw your words back at you. I said I've worked with equipment but tell me, what exactly is my experience that gives me reason for that statement? I'd expect you to give an answer to prove that you're not just speaking out your arse when you said that I have no idea. Maybe your arse is your mouth, idk, maybe it is.
Man 15% of the time women do something that really couldn't be done without them but the rest of the time they're like drums, give them a tiny tap of life and they go crazy with incoherent nonesense. Are you a drum? Why do I have no idea what it's like?
This is ridiculous. How this is Amazon's fault is what I'm trying to figure out here. Maintenance workers are not actual Amazon employees. They are 3rd party vendors. I'm sure this poor guy was trained properly, but he failed to implement a key safety tool that would've prevented this from happening. But it's Amazon so there's always a story.
trust me it’s Amazon’s fault! You can’t even complain without being asked where you was what you was doing and telling you that you could lose your job because you have been missing for 5 minutes.
A whistle blower is some one of prominence like Edward Snowden. This guy is just a snitch.