EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. — Even as workers continued to clean up an Amazon warehouse torn in two by a tornado days earlier, attention began to shift Monday to the construction of the facility that collapsed, killing six.
The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration said it had opened an investigation into the deaths. Illinois officials, including local leaders, said they had begun to inquire about the condition of the warehouse before it collapsed. And some worried that construction methods for such facilities were no longer appropriate for a climate expected to see more frequent tornadoes.
"Already there has been an effort to determine some of the challenges, if there were any structural issues, what exactly the storm's trajectory was coming in and affecting the various pieces of the building," Gov. J.B. Pritzker said at a press conference on Monday in neighboring Pontoon Beach.
