Amazon Warehouse Workers Partially Revive Covid-19 Safety Case

Workers at Amazon.com Inc.’s JFK8 Staten Island fulfillment center may pursue coronavirus-related workplace safety allegations after the Second Circuit partially revived their case Tuesday.

The lower court threw out some worker claims and said they should have taken their complaints to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration instead of federal court. But the issues on appeal are “of a legal, not factual, nature,” so they don’t need “the kind of highly factual inquiry that would typically be aided by OSHA’s expertise,” the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit said.

• The workers partially premised their claims on a ...