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Amazon under scrutiny in Poland after worker’s death prompts inspections

22.07.2025 17:55
Poland’s labor authorities have launched mass inspections at Amazon warehouses across the country after deputy lower-house Speaker Włodzimierz Czarzasty intervened following the death of a 48-year-old employee in the southern city of Sosnowiec.
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The National Labour Inspectorate will begin inspections this week at Amazon warehouses in response to the death of an employee who collapsed while walking through a corridor and died during work duties at one of the company’s logistics centres, public broadcaster Polish Radio's IAR news agency reported

Chief Labour Inspector Marcin Stancki said in an interview with Polish Radio that the inspections at Amazon could last several weeks and will include an analysis of employees’ working hours.

Amazon employs several thousand people across 11 logistics centres in Poland.

In a media statement, Amazon said it is a “responsible employer,” adding that employee health and safety is an “absolute priority,” and that 24-hour medical care is available at the warehouse where the fatal accident occurred.

Deputy Speaker Włodzimierz Czarzasty, a leading left-wing lawmaker, said on Tuesday that this is not the first death of an employee while working in Amazon’s Polish warehouses.

During a 10-hour shift, workers complain about having to walk up to 30 kilometres per day and report being overworked.

However, according to prosecutors’ findings, the most recent fatality at Amazon was due to natural causes.

The local Sosnowiec edition of Gazeta Wyborcza reported that during the morning shift on June 25, the body of a man was found lying with his head in a pool of blood, but the prosecutor’s office decided not to conduct an autopsy.

W magazynie Amazona w Sosnowcu znaleziono zwłoki ⬇

Opublikowany przez Gazeta Wyborcza Środa, 25 czerwca 2025

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Source: IAR/Polskie Radio/Gazeta Wyborcza/money.pl/X/@__Lewica

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