Edwardsville Amazon warehouse collapse

On the evening of December 10, 2021, a tornado struck the DLI4 delivery facility in Edwardsville, Illinois, United States, an Amazon warehouse that oversees delivery logistics for the Greater St. Louis region. A majority of workers that evening were temporary contractors brought in to assist with the additional volume of goods moved due to the Christmas holiday, with only seven of the 45 on site being employed full-time at the warehouse. When a tornado warning was received, confusion as to the proper location of DLI4's storm shelter led to 10 employees taking shelter at a bathroom on the southern side of the building; the tornado would strike the same southern side, collapsing the west-facing wall onto the bathroom, killing six and critically injuring one. The response was handled by emergency personnel from across the St. Louis region.