She asked to be moved away from the coworker she says assaulted her. Amazon allegedly said no
An Amazon warehouse worker alleges the company forced her to keep working alongside the coworker she says sexually assaulted her on a business trip.
The worker, a health and safety manager at Amazon's MDT1 fulfillment center in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, filed a federal lawsuit on October 7, 2026, alleging a sexual assault during a company trip, a failed internal investigation, and a chain of employer responses that she says left her with no option but to quit.
According to the complaint filed in the US District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, the worker was hired in November 2024. Two months in, she traveled to Nashville, Tennessee with colleagues for a business trip in January 2025.
The group went to dinner, then hit several bars, the filing states. The worker alleges she has no memory of the final bar or of getting back to her hotel. The next morning, according to the complaint, she woke up in pain to find a coworker naked in the bed beside her. Her room was in complete disarray, belongings strewn everywhere.
She asked the coworker what happened. According to the complaint, he said he "didn't know" and rushed out.
The worker alleges she had not drunk enough to black out and concluded she had been drugged and sexually assaulted. She was visibly unwell the following day and was eventually taken to hospital by another colleague, the complaint states.
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