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Pressure to Work Faster, Lack of Safety Claim Lives at FedEx Packing Units Despite the shipping giant claiming to have adequate measures in place to ensure workers' safety, the situation on the ground is starkly different posing risk to the lives of those who labour at FedEx's World Hub in Memphis, one of its largest units in the world. FedEx employees at work. Photo: facebook/ FedEx  This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Memp...

Wendi C. Thomas MLK50: Justice Through Journalism This ProPublica article was produced in partnership with MLK50: Justice Through Journalism, which is a member of the ProPublica Local Reporting Network. Fannie Stanberry had been on the job for two months as a package handler at FedEx Express’ massive World Hub when, toward the end of her overnight shift, packages started to fall from a huge shipping container that rolled past her. As Stanberry, then 61, bent to pick up the packages, she fell and became trapped between the catwalk she’d been standing on and the wheeled platform carrying th...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. This article was produced in partnership with MLK50: Justice Through Journalism, which is a member of the ProPublica Local Reporting Network. MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Fannie Stanberry had been on the job for two months as a package handler at FedEx Express’ massive World Hub when, toward the end of her overnight shift, packages started to fall from a huge shipping container that rolled past her. As Stanberry, then 61, bent to pick up the packages, she fell a...