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Edwardsville Amazon warehouse collapse

On the evening of December 10, 2021, the Amazon Logistics DLI4 delivery facility in Edwardsville, Illinois collapsed after being struck by an EF3 tornado, killing 6 workers in the facility and injuring 4. The building was constructed with a storm shelter, but its location was not properly communicated to workers, and workers sheltering in a different part of the building were killed in the collapse. Amazon was criticized for its handling of the event by politicians, media, and advocates. The company was initially unable to compile a list of workers in the building to assist emergency responders, and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos attended a Blue Origin rocket launch the next day before issuing a statement about the collapsed warehouse. The Edwardsville tornado was part of a large late-season tornado outbreak across the central and southern United States, which caused over 80 deaths in total. A separate tornado in the outbreak destroyed a similarly-constructed industrial building in Mayfield, Kentucky. When the DLI4 facility was rebuilt and reopened in 2024, neither it nor any other facility in the commercial district it was located in had any storm shelters, nor was the new structure of DLI4 built to withstand the extreme winds that the initial tornado produced.

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• ▸Fort Abbas
• ▸56 Ceti
• ▸Bermuda Triangle

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