A building issue led to an Edwardsville, IL Amazon warehouse's partial collapse during a tornado, a lawyer says.
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. -- A downstate Amazon warehouse where six workers died last year when a tornado slammed into it had"numerous" support columns that weren't properly attached to the ground, a lawyer for one of the victims said Tuesday.
"An unanchored column is very analogous to a backyard deck/patio umbrella: When it's not connected to its base under the table, a strong wind is simply just going to lift up that umbrella, similar to what occurred here," Jack Casciato, a partner at Clifford Law Offices, told reporters. Casciato, who represents the family of 26-year-old Austin McEwen, said the information about the columns came from a report filed by a government-mandated structural engineer who inspected the Edwardsville warehouse the day of the Dec. 10 tragedy. The report was released in recent weeks through the filing of a Freedom of Information request, Casciato said.
But Casciato said Tuesday that the building's construction was a contributing factor in the deaths of McEwan and the others.Casciato said his firm's construction experts have"Indicated that many buildings in this area historically can withstand an EF3 tornado when the actual support columns are properly anchored."
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