(WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Members of Congress investigating Amazon’s labor practices at the downstate Edwardsville facility where six employees were killed during a tornado last year are accusing the company of obstruction.
The congressional investigators said the company has not produced any of the key documents that have been requested.
Attorney Jack Casciato, a partner with the Clifford Law Offices, is representing the family of one of the Amazon employees who was killed.
He suggested the company has something to hide.
"One only needs a small amount of common sense to recognize that whatever's in those internal memorandum, whatever's in those internal communications that Amazon refuses to turn over, certainly is not exonerating them. There's certainly something in there that tells the story of what happened that night."
Casciato noted that OSHA’s investigation revealed bullhorns for use as warnings were locked up.
And he said some workers didn’t have training for severe weather and didn’t know where to shelter and warnings had been issued long before the tornado.
Amazon said in a statement:
“We were surprised to receive this letter.”
It says fifteen hundred pages of documents have been submitted and the company “will continue to work with Committee staff on further document production.”
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