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Frias' death led to sharp criticism of Amazon from Reps. Donald Norcross and Frank Pallone, who called on federal labor officials to "investigate Amazon fully."

"People should feel confident that when they go to work they'll be safe and come home the way they went in," Rep. Donald Norcross (NJ-1) said after the Cartaret employee's death.

Rep. Norcross has asked for OSHA to investigate the serious injury rate at Amazon's warehouses which he says far exceeds the industrial average. He has also asked Amazon to improve conditions for its workers.

U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) reiterated his call for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to investigate the safety of Amazon's warehouses following reports of a death at one of the company's warehouses in New Jersey.

"People should feel confident that when they go to work they'll be safe and come home the way they went in," Norcross wrote in a public statement on July 20. "Amazon is failing to fulfill that basic promise."

Since Congressman Donald Norcross (D, 1st district) sponsored legislation in 2012 to cut the red tape and modernize craft brewing in New Jersey, small business owners have opened in almost every town in the county.

Reps. Donald Norcross and Frank Pallone sent a letter Wednesday to OSHA's Assistant Secretary of Labor Douglas L. Parker requesting a probe into whether the retail giant engages in conduct designed to hide injuries from OSHA and others, either by discouraging workers from self-reporting their injuries, misclassifying workplace injuries, or other ways.

"Despite commitments by Jeff Bezos to make Amazon the 'Earth's Safest Place to Work,' reporting suggests that conditions for the Amazon workers are worsening and are out of line with industry norms," Norcross and the other delegates wrote.