Family of Tornado Victim File Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against Amazon Over Warehouse Collapse

Crews use an excavator to pull down pieces of a damaged roof during search and rescue operations at the Amazon distribution center in Edwardsville, Ill., on Dec. 11, 2021. Daniel Shular/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP

The family of a delivery driver who died in December when a tornado hit an Amazon warehouse in Edwardsville, Illinois, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit, their lawyers announced on Sunday.

Austin McEwen, 26, a resident of Edwardsville and an independent contractor of Amazon, was working as a driver for an Amazon Delivery Service Partner when the tornado struck, leading to the partial collapse of the building. He was one of six people killed.