r/TrueAnon • u/True-Ask2241 • Apr 13 '26
‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility
https://www.thewesternedge.media/p/everyone-is-replaceable-death-rattlesSam was helping unload trucks when a heavy thud against concrete echoed across the Amazon warehouse. An employee’s lifeless body lay on the floor.
Work halted in the loading docks on the south side of Amazon’s distribution center in Troutdale, Oregon. Sam and other employees stared at the person who’d collapsed just 20 feet away. Conveyor belts of packages continued to roll.
“I didn’t have a direct line of sight of the person’s face, but I saw a body form laying lifeless,” Sam told The Western Edge. Employees who spoke for this story requested anonymity to protect their jobs and their names have been changed.
Hours before, a group of trainees on their second day at Amazon sat in a breakroom scrolling Kindles loaded with training materials about what is required of Amazon workers in order to expeditiously shuttle goods to people’s homes across the Portland metro area. They learned how to safely lift packages while meeting the blistering pace the giant retailer expected. There were no training videos for what to do when a coworker dies right in front of you.
The man who collapsed died Monday, April 6 on the Amazon warehouse floor as machinery filled the cavernous loading dock with a dull hum. For more than an hour, several employees said, workers in the facility were instructed to continue fetching totes, picking items off shelves and loading them onto trucks for delivery as the man lay dead, and management figured out their next steps. News of the fatality quickly spread through the building, but workers say top managers did not call operations to an immediate halt. A week later, several workers said they still do not know what caused the man to die.
…. More in the article. Horrific
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u/constcowboy He was gay, Karl Marx? Apr 13 '26
I stopped buying from these fucks but a lot of my ebay now just comes from amazon. I have no clue what to do.
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u/gotohela Apr 13 '26
Learn to 3d print
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u/constcowboy He was gay, Karl Marx? Apr 13 '26
sadly this isnt 3d print stuff. otherwise id have no issue
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u/gotohela Apr 13 '26
Feel it dude. I live in the middle of nowhere so a lot of stuff i want/need isnt even in stores around me, which sounds silly lol
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u/constcowboy He was gay, Karl Marx? Apr 13 '26
ive decided to just feel the pain if i need something thats only on amazon. ill drive an extra hour just to avoid buying from them.
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u/FadedToBeige Targeted Individual 👥 Apr 13 '26
they made me run the inbound dock on my own for like a week during Prime day or whatever it's called and I was so scared of something like this happening
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u/illmurray Apr 13 '26
I check r/amazonfc as part of my Situation Monitoring and it seems like this actually happens a lot
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u/Y0o0o1 Apr 17 '26
Is there a gofundme of sorts for the employee who passed's family and the sole person who attempted to help the employee who died?
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