Amazon Wins Bid to Arbitrate Warehouse Worker’s Injury Claims

A former Amazon.com Services LLC warehouse worker must arbitrate his on-the-job injury claims after a judge ruled he’s not entitled to a Federal Arbitration Act exemption because he wasn’t working in interstate commerce.

Judge Sean D. Jordan of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas rejected Tyler George’sclaim that he was involved in interstate commerce because he unloaded incoming trucks and trailers that contained “goods shipped from out-of-state,” and loaded outbound delivery vans that carried the same goods to Amazon customers.

But the warehouse workers weren’t directly involved in actually making the deliveries, Jordan said Monday. They ...