An attorney for the family of a 26-year-old Amazon contractor who died in a Madison County Amazon warehouse collapse in December alleged Tuesday the facility showed signs of structural issues.
A government engineer who responded to the scene of the warehouse collapse Dec. 10 in Edwardsville found structural concerns regarding the facility’s support columns, according to a copy of the engineer’s report released by Jack Casciato, an attorney with Chicago-based Clifford Law Offices.
“I became concerned when I noticed that none of the columns appeared to be ripped or torn from the base,” the engineer wrote in a four-page report from West County EMS & Fire. “This was especially concerning to me knowing that the International Building Code (IBC) requires structural members to be secured against uplift from wind loads, among other things.”
