Tesla robot attacked an engineer at the company's factory in Texas
According to the lawyer, there is evidence that Tesla does not report accidents at work to government regulators
A worker at a Tesla factory was attacked by a machine designed to grab and move newly cast aluminum car parts. It happened in front of two witnesses.
Source. This was reported by DailyMail.com, cited by dev.ua.
It is noted that the robot clamped down on a man who was programming two inoperable Tesla robots nearby, and then stuck its metal claws into the worker's back and arm. As the injured Tesla engineer tried to break free from the assembly robot's grasp, another worker pressed the emergency stop button to stop the attack. When the engineer broke free, he fell "a couple of feet into a chute designed to collect aluminum scrap, leaving a bloody trail behind him."
The injury report, which Tesla is required by law to provide to authorities in order to retain its lucrative Texas tax credits, claimed that the engineer did not need the leave. The November 10, 2021, entry describes the injury as a "laceration, cut, open wound" that was inflicted on the engineer, the "object of the cause" of which was a robot.
Although the incident was recorded in an injury report, according to attorney Hannah Alexander of the nonprofit organization Workers Defense Project, Tesla's factory underreports the number of workplace injuries.
For example, OSHA investigators in California found that Tesla failed to account for 36 injuries in its mandatory government filings in 2018 alone, confirming a previous report by the Center for Investigative Reporting's Reveal group that found the company misclassified a number of workplace accidents and injuries as "personal medical" cases to avoid California regulators.
According to The Information's review, in 2022, nearly one in 21 workers at Tesla's Giga factory in Texas suffered a workplace injury, compared to the industry average of one in every 30 workers.
"We've had several injured workers," said Alexander, "and one worker who died whose injuries or deaths are not included in these reports.
According to the Travis County Medical Examiner's report, that construction worker, a contractor named Antelmo Ramirez, died of heat stroke while helping to build the Tesla Giga Texas factory.
Background. In addition, it was reported that SpaceX has a high incidence of injuries due to safety violations. Reuters accused Elon Musk of neglecting the safety of workers in an effort to colonize Mars as soon as possible.
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