NEW YORK – An Amazon worker wreaked havoc in a Staten Island warehouse early Friday, allegedly setting off a fire alarm, even though there was no fire, and spraying fire extinguishers on coworkers and throughout the building. according to reports. of what happened.
Police and firefighters were called to the sprawling Bloomfield compound on Gulf Avenue around 6 a.m., and one affected person was taken into custody. Ten people were tested at the scene and two of them were taken to hospital for further evaluation, she said. SILive.com.
It is unclear how they were injured, although there was probably a lot of confusion.
About 2,000 Amazon workers at the facility at the time were forced out, an NYPD spokesperson told SILive.com.
All night shift workers have been sent home but will receive full pay, according to a person familiar with the case. The FDNY cleared the building to reopen later Friday, but Amazon canceled the day shift for cleanup reasons. Day shift employees will also receive full pay. It is unclear how severely operations in the area could be affected.
It is also unclear why the employee would set off the fire alarm and spray the spray on his colleagues and what potential charges such an individual might be charged.
Steve Kelly, an Amazon spokesman, said the company was grateful that no one was seriously injured and for the quick work of emergency services. He referred the questions to the NYPD, citing the active nature of the investigation.
Amazon’s facility in the New York City borough made national headlines earlier this year. One voted to unionize in April, becoming the company’s first U.S. warehouse to do so. A union vote at a nearby second warehouse collapsed in May.
