{"id":5238,"date":"2018-12-08T03:38:04","date_gmt":"2018-12-08T03:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/amazon-workers-injured-in-bear-spray-accident\/"},"modified":"2018-12-08T03:38:04","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T03:38:04","slug":"amazon-workers-injured-in-bear-spray-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/amazon-workers-injured-in-bear-spray-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon workers injured in bear spray accident"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"media-landscape has-caption full-width lead\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" alt=\"Workers at Amazon's Fulfillment Centre in Robbinsville, New Jersey\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/457B\/production\/_104678771_35687c12-c4c3-4472-8f82-382b4ad89e3a.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/><span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><figcaption class=\"media-caption\"><span class=\"off-screen\">Image caption<\/span><br \/>\n                <span class=\"media-caption__text\"><br \/>\n                    Amazon&#8217;s Fulfillment Centre in Robbinsville, New Jersey, where the accident took place<br \/>\n                <\/span><br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Twenty-four Amazon workers have been hospitalised after a bear spray can was punctured at a warehouse in New Jersey in the US on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>One of those hospitalised is in a critical condition. Another 30 people were treated by emergency services at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>It is not clear what caused the accident but Amazon is investigating.<\/p>\n<p>Workers evacuated the third floor of the warehouse&#8217;s south entrance during the incident on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Employees experienced breathing problems, and stinging in their throat and eyes, local officials said.<\/p>\n<p>John Nalbone, a spokesperson for Robinsville Township, told the BBC there was no threat to residents in the area and that fumes were confined to within the building.<\/p>\n<p>Operations at the 1.3m sq ft facility &#8211; which employs more than 3,000 people &#8211; have since resumed as normal, Mr Nalbone added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The safety of our employees is always our top priority and a full investigation is already underway,&#8221; said Rachael Lighty, a spokeswoman for Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Get Bear Smart Society, the non-lethal bear repellant causes &#8220;a nearly total, yet temporary, loss of sight and severe restriction of breathing&#8221; in bears and humans.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-46468719\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Amazon&#8217;s Fulfillment Centre in Robbinsville, New Jersey, where the accident took place Twenty-four Amazon workers have been hospitalised after a bear spray can was punctured at a warehouse in New Jersey in the US on Wednesday. One of those hospitalised is in a critical condition. Another 30 people were &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}