Illinois lawmakers will explore statewide standards following Amazon warehouse deaths

Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Illinois lawmakers will consider whether there should be statewide standards for warehouses following a tornado that killed six people at an Amazon facility in Edwardsville.

“The question is, with all the warehouses that are being built or have been built, should we be setting a state standard for that? That’s something that no doubt will be explored during this session of the General Assembly,” Pritzker said at an unrelated news conference Wednesday in East St. Louis.

“We should be looking at whether we should be creating statewide standards. We don’t have that now,” the governor said. “They’re really done on a county by county or municipality basis.”

The call came more than a month after an EF-3 tornado ripped through the 1.1-million-square-foot warehouse on Gateway Commerce Drive around 8:30 p.m. on Dec. 10. Winds up to 150 mph toppled concrete walls and caused the roof to collapse.

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(Belleville News-Democrat)