A North Texas Amazon worker whose foot was crushed as he unloaded containers from a plane has been awarded almost $4 million in damages by an arbitrator, according to court documents.
William Van Orden, then 67, was working as a ramp agent for Amazon’s logistics arm at the time of the incident in 2021, according to the documents. Van Orden was unloading a cargo container from an Amazon aircraft when a butterfly lock used to secure the container in-flight caught his foot.
A spike on the lock pierced Van Orden’s foot and the container crushed it, tearing the soft tissue, shredding the nerves and breaking bones, according to the documents…