According to the Daily Mail, Tesla has concealed the number of robot attacks on workers at its factory in Texas, USA, over the past year or two. A lawyer representing workers at Tesla's factory recently revealed that the number of injuries is underestimated.
The British newspaper The Independent reported that previously, a Tesla engineer was assembling a robot, and witnesses saw another robot take control of the engineer and grab him by the back and arms. A colleague pressed the robot's emergency stop button in time to avoid a disaster. However, after being rescued, the engineer fell into a chute used to collect scrap aluminum, leaving visible blood trails behind him.
In August 2022, a worker's ankle was caught in a cart, resulting in a 127-day break from his work injury. A few days later, another worker suffered a head injury that left him rested for 85 days. It is reported that there have also been a number of incidents of falling air conditioning pipes, steel beams and other construction materials at Tesla factories and injuring people.
This is despite the fact that Tesla did not report any other cases of robot-related injuries to regulators in 2021 and 2022It has been reported that the reason why Tesla did not submit the relevant report is to avoid negative public opinion, and secondly, to obtain better tax incentives.
According to a survey by the American magazine Information,In 2022, almost one in every 21 workers at Tesla's factory was injured on the job, compared to the industry average of one in every 30 workers.
In fact, Tesla has been controversial, and many people scoff at it, thinking that it is just the "first person" in the United States, but many people have praised it to the sky and envy its unbridled feelings and abilities.
The reason for such a high mechanical injury rate is due to Tesla's high level of mechanization, you know, almost all parts of Tesla are 75% automated, this concept is equivalent to "unmanned office", the main role of factory workers is maintenance and operation of key nodes, and most of the mechanical work is completed by machines.
However, as a "person who has been screwed" in the factory, I know deeply that the machine is unreliable. In the process of equipment operation, there are more or less such and such problems, and even more personnel **. And the more mechanized it is, the higher the risk.
Musk is a "world hero" created by the United States, and he is exported to the world as a soft power value. A series of problems behind it are well hidden by its PR team.
So with the help of many **, Tesla was mythologized, some people said that Tesla had less work, high wages, and was "limited salary" by the local **, but the reality is that the Tesla factory where the "mechanical injury" accident occurred, the Gigafactory in Austin, which employs more than 20,000 workers, opened for the first time in April 2022. It was completed about two years after the start of construction in 2020, and is currently expanding the production scale of the Cybertruck. Employees described the company's work culture as extremely harsh, with extremely long working hours, unsafe working conditions, and harassment.
It is not denied that Tesla is a very successful multinational company, but the incident also exposed a series of problems in the field of securityIf any enterprise does not pay attention to security issues, insists on going its own way, and is stubborn, sooner or later it will turn around.