The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating an Amazon.com Inc. warehouse near Hazleton, Pennsylvania, following complaints from workers that the company is not doing enough to prevent the spread of Covid-19 at the facility, an agency spokeswoman said Wednesday.

An Ohio cookie and cracker manufacturer is facing $262,169 in OSHA fines after two workers suffered amputation injuries within a two-month span in 2019.

Companies that instituted safety changes to adapt to the necessary social distancing and cleanliness rules precipitated by the Covid-19 outbreak are making some of those changes permanent.

Last week, a manager at an Amazon.com Inc. warehouse in eastern Pennsylvania issued a stark warning to his team on how to handle shipments from another Amazon facility afflicted with the coronavirus: Don’t touch them for 24 hours. 

Just hours after a labor union reported what may be the first poultry-worker deaths associated with the coronavirus in the U.S., Vice President Mike Pence urged American food workers to continue to “show up and do your job.”

Millions of protective coverall suits will soon head to hospitals to shield workers from the coronavirus, the HHS said Wednesday.