@@ -1,1 +1,1 @@ - +Rafael Reynaldo Mota Frias, 42, died after a heart attack in an Amazon warehouse in Carteret, NJ as temperatures hit 92F<br>Federal work-safety investigators are looking into the death of an Amazon worker and an injury that potentially led to the death of another employee, adding to a probe already underway following a third [https://www.paramuspost.com/search.php?query=fatality&type=all&mode=search&results=25 fatality] during the company's annual Prime Day shopping event in mid-July.<br>All three Amazon workers died within the past month and were employed at company facilities in New Jersey.<br>The new Occupational Health and Safety Administration investigations are putting fresh scrutiny on Amazon's injury rates and workplace-safety procedures, which have long been [https://www.ft.com/search?q=criticized criticized] by labor and safety advocates as inadequate.<br>Department of Labor spokesperson Denisha Braxton confirmed Thursday that the most-recent fatality took place last week at an Amazon facility in Monroe Township, about 20 miles northeast of [https://ajt-ventures.com/?s=Trenton Trenton].<br>The second probe is looking into a July 24 accident at an Amazon facility in Robbinsville. <br>The worker involved in that [https://www.huffpost.com/search?keywords=accident%20died accident died] three days later, according to Braxton.<br>In a statement, Robbinsville Police Chief Michael Polaski said police responded to the warehouse, called PNE5, on July 24 after receiving a report that a worker fell from a [https://www.dictionary.com/browse/three-foot three-foot] (one-meter) ladder and struck his head.<br>Polaski said the worker was conscious and alert when police arrived.<br><br>But police were told CPR was conducted on the person by other workers prior to their arrival, he said. The person was transported to a hospital and OSHA was notified of the incident on the same day, he added.<br>Police in Monroe Township didn´t immediately reply for a request for comment on the incident there.<br> The Amazon facility in Robbinsville, NJ was the site of the worker's fatal fall from a ladder<br>The two most recent deaths were first reported by the USA [https://www.bbcworldnewstoday.com/ BBC World News Today] Network.<br>OSHA officials declined to provide additional information about any of the deaths, citing the open investigations.<br><br>The agency has up to six month to complete each probe.<br>Sam Stephenson, a spokesperson for Seattle-based Amazon, said in a statement the company was 'deeply saddened by the passing of our colleagues and offer our condolences to their family and friends.'<br>'Our investigations are ongoing and we´re cooperating with OSHA, which is conducting its own reviews of the events, as it often does in these situations,' Stephenson said.<br>Last month, OSHA launched another investigation into a worker fatality at an Amazon warehouse in the New Jersey town of Carteret during the company´s Prime Day shopping event, which turned out to be the biggest in the company's history.