Amazon Worker Correspondent
On May 10, 39-year-old worker De-Twon McShan was killed after passing out at his work station at the Amazon Fulfillment Center CLE3 in Euclid, Ohio.
According to a police report, McShan told others that he wasn’t feeling well before collapsing. His family has not received any answers about his death from Amazon. His mother told local monopoly news that he was “bleeding from the brain”, adding, “Amazon refused to speak to me…. I couldn’t even see the footage. I want to know what happened to my son, and I cannot have closure if I don’t have that.”
An Amazon spokesperson confirmed the worker’s death that day.
Logistics workers have warned about the increasing safety incidents when summer hits, like passing out from heat exhaustion and getting killed on the job. A FedEx tractor trailer driver in Mount Juliet, TN told The Worker that it gets “so hot in the warehouse and people don’t be staying hydrated… I can’t put a number on it but I know it’s likely to happen every summer.”
As production ramps up for Prime Day in June 2026, workers at the Amazon Fulfillment Center MQY1 in Mount Juliet are concerned about heat exhaustion because the monopoly expects them to meet high production goals no matter how hot it gets.
Just last month, two workers fainted on the job at MQY1 and Sortation Center BNA7. Management has since only provided a ten-minute training session on workplace safety on May 7 and has yet to provide updates on what happened to the workers. While workers actively put forward suggestions to cool the warehouse down, Amazon just ignores them.
One Amazon Fulfillment Express (AFE) worker shared with The Worker that a manager scolded her for packing items every 47 seconds when the goal is every 30 seconds. “They treat us like we’re machines,” she said. More workers will be killed on the job and face heat exhaustion if the high production goals and production speeds continue.
Image: An Amazon fulfillment center in Troutdale, OR. Credit: Tedder on Wikimedia Commons.
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