The Daily Mail resource describes the story extremely colorfully
The Daily Mail resource reported on a case of «a robot attack on a person» at the Tesla plant and in general about the company’s labor safety situation.
An example is given of a case two years ago. According to the source, the Tesla engineer was subjected to «cruel and bloody» attacked by a robot, and two witnesses watched in horror as their colleague was attacked by a machine.
Technically, everything, of course, was not as one might imagine when reading such descriptions. In fact, a robotic arm for grasping and moving newly cast aluminum parts of a car somehow, while working, hooked a person and pressed him to some surface. According to the source, «sank its metal claws into the back and arm of the worker and left a bloody trail on the floor of the plant».
As a result, the employee received an open wound on his arm. This happened back in 2021, and at that time Tesla reported the injury to regulators, noting that the employee did not even require leave.
The source says that in general, Tesla factories have pretty bad injury statistics. So in 2022, at a factory in Texas, almost one in 21 workers suffered some kind of injury, while the industry average — This is every 30 employee. At the same time, at Tesla, every 26 employee was seriously injured, while the average — one of 38 people.