Federal work-safety investigators have been looking into the death of an Amazon employee and an injury that would potentially led to the death of another worker by adding to a probe already underway following a third fatality at the time of the company's annual Prime Day shopping event in mid-July. Last month itself, all the three Amazon employees were died and were employed at company facilities in New Jersey.

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During the company's annual Prime Day shopping event, there were three deaths
An employee fell from a three-foot (one-meter) ladder and had struck his head
OSHA officials have declined to provide extra information about the three deaths

The new Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) investigations were placing fresh scrutiny on Amazon's injury rates and workplace-safety procedures, that had long been criticized by labor and safety advocates as inadequate.

Department of Labor spokesperson Denisha Braxton has confirmed on Thursday that last week the most-recent fatality took place at an Amazon facility in Monroe Township division, which would be around 20 miles (35 kilometers) northeast of Trenton. The second probe has been looking into a July 24 accident at an Amazon facility in Robbinsville. The employee who got involved in that accident were died three days later. 

In a statement, Robbinsville police chief Micheal Polaski has mentioned that the police had responded on the warehouse, which was referred to as PNE5, on 24th July when a report was received that an employee fell from a three-foot (one-meter) ladder and had struck his head into it.

OSHA officials have declined to provide extra information regarding any of the deaths, citing towards the open investigations. The agency has six months to finish every probe.

A Amazon's spokesperson has mentioned that the company's internal investigation into the Carteret death has portrayed it “was not a work-related incident, and instead was associated with a personnel medical condition.”

The spokesperson has added that “OSHA has been presently investigating the incident, and, based upon the proof presently obtainable to us, we would tend to absolutely expect that it would reach a similar conclusion.” 

Therefore, the news of the deaths comes amid broader scrutiny into the company's operations. During the late July, the OSHA officials had inspected Amazon facilities in New York, Illinois and Florida State after receiving referrals alleging health and safety violations from the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. As per the spokesperson for the office, the civil division of the U.S. attorney's office has been additionally working on the safety hazards at Amazon warehouses and “fraudulent conduct designed in order to cover injuries from OSHA and others.'

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