A man left a “trail of blood” at a Tesla factory after a robot plunged its metal claws into his back and arm.
Now, after reading that sentence, you may have thought, “Wait, did Elon actually release that dancing robot he announced back in 2021?” No, he did not — meaning that we’re still, for the time being, safe from having our heads ripped off by a malfunctioning android. This is a *different* robot that Tesla has created, because the company is really good at making artificial intelligence.
According to the Daily Mail, the incident occurred back in 2021. The man in question had been programming software for two disabled Tesla robots when one of the other nearby machines went rogue. Per a report made at the time, retold by the Daily Mail, “The robot had pinned the man … before sinking its metal claws into the worker’s back and arm, leaving a ‘trail of blood’ along the factory surface.”
Now, let’s be fair to Tesla here. This was the only robot-related injury reported to regulators for the years of 2021 and 2022.
But that’s where the fairness stops. See, in the spirit of “moving fast and breaking things,” several things have moved fast and (allegedly) broken through the skin of employees, only for Tesla to not report those injuries to regulators. “California OSHA investigators, for example, found that Tesla had left out 36 injuries in its required government filings in 2018 alone,” notes the Daily Mail piece. Employees for the piece also claim that there were injuries and deaths that went unreported as well. Even given this underreporting, the injury rates at Tesla factories are concerningly high.
“A ratio of nearly one out of every 21 workers at Tesla's Giga Texas factory was injured on the job in 2022, according to a review by The Information, compared to an industry median rate of one in every 30 workers,” reads the Daily Mail article.
Hey, at least the cars work… right?
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