A Tesla engineer was attacked via a robot in a brutal and bloody malfunction at the company’s factory in Giga Texas, near Austin.
Two witnesses watched in horror as their colleague attacked through the device designed to grab and move freshly melted aluminum car parts.
The robot had cornered the man, who then programmed the software for two nearby disabled Tesla robots, before digging its steel claws into the worker’s back and arm, leaving a “trail of blood” along the way. Factory surface.
The incident – which left the victim with an ‘open wound’ on his left hand – was revealed in a 2021 injury report filed to Travis county and federal regulators.
While no robot-related injuries were reported to regulators through Tesla at the Texas factory in 2021 or 2022, the incident comes amid years of heightened considerations about the dangers of automated robots in the workplace.
Reports of an increase in injuries by robot colleagues at Amazon fulfillment centers, killer droid surgeons, self-driving vehicles, and even violence by robotic chess instructors have led some to the immediate integration of the new technology.
The injury report, which Tesla will have to submit to the government by law to maintain its lucrative tax breaks in Texas, states that the engineer did not want to take time off work.
But an attorney representing Tesla’s contract staff at Giga Texas believes, in her conversations with plant staff, that the number of injuries sustained at the plant is underestimated.
That lack of information, the lawyer said, even included the death, on Sept. 28, 2021, of a worker on the structure, who had been hired to build the plant itself.
“I would read this report with caution,” said attorney Hannah Alexander of the nonprofit Workers Defense Project.
“Several were injured,” Alexander said.
“And an employee who has died, whose injuries or death are not on the reports that Tesla must complete and submit to the county for tax incentives,” he said.
That structure worker, a contractor named Antelmo Ramirez, died of heat stroke while helping build Tesla’s more than 2,000-acre Giga Texas factory, according to a report from the Travis County medical examiner.
Last year, the Workers Defense Project filed a complaint on behalf of Giga Texas with the U. S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), alleging that Tesla contractors and subcontractors gave some employees false protection certificates.
“Workers report that when they needed training, they were simply sent PDF files or images of certificates through text or WhatsApp in a matter of days,” Alexander remarked.
“Staff may have received the necessary training. “
Alexander’s allegations about unreported injuries at Tesla’s site, if true, would adhere to a trend of similar findings by state regulators and nonprofit investigative journalism organizations over the years.
California OSHA investigators, for example, found that Tesla overlooked 36 injuries from its required reports in 2018 alone, confirming an earlier report by the Investigative Reporting Center’s Reveal team, which found that the company had misclassified several injuries. -Work injuries and injuries such as “personal medical” cases to escape California regulators.
Prior to California’s OSHA findings, Tesla had said Reveal’s claims were absolutely false and accused the organization of secretly engaging with staff then seeking to unionize at the automaker’s California plant.
A copy of Tesla’s 2021 Annual Compliance Report for Giga Texas, however, does at least document the software engineer’s bloody robot attack, albeit in slim detail.
The rare article from November 10, 2021 describes how an engineer’s laceration, cut, or open wound inflicted on the object in question a robot.
According to Tesla, the engineer’s injuries, which were inflicted on his left hand, required a single day off to recover.
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