Kristen Malby holds her daughter Layla for a portrait in front of an Amazon warehouse in Fontana on March 2, 2023. Malby was born and raised in Fontana and remembers when the area was completely undeveloped. As high schoolers, Malby and her friends used to gather for drag races in this particular area on the barren land. In 2017 Malby suffered life changing injuries as a Costco warehouse worker. She originally believed that Costco could be a workplace where her hard work would pay off and advance her through managerial positions while still allowing her to focus on her creative work as a tattoo artist. But on June 22, 2017, she woke up unable to fully move her arms. Neither arm allowed her the mobility to place a toothbrush in her mouth or fasten a seatbelt when she attempted to get work that day. After multiple trips to the ER and a series of specialist referrals, she was officially diagnosed with fourteen injuries including bilateral bicipital tears, bilateral extreme frozen shoulder, bilateral identical rotator cuff tears, labral tears, carpal tunnel, a neck injury from C three to C seven, severe tennis elbow, and nerve damage from rotating her spine to face the rack where she performed her tasks. “What did me in I think was the strawberry rhubarb pies, they each weigh three pounds and if there's 24 of them on the tray, do the math,” Malby said. “We had to flip and rotate the trays three times in the process… I can’t flip my hands [now], they won’t turn inward.” She later learned that she was the third employee to suffer a shoulder injury, including the manager she was covering for who was out of work because of the injury. They all worked on the same part of the assembly line. The experience taught her that most employers already have a price for their workers. “Had I gotten hurt as a customer, I would have been a millionaire. But being an employee, we're already priced out when it comes to insurance policies. And the employees don't know that