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\"Tesla\"Elon Musk, owner of SpaceX<\/a> and Tesla is a seriously strange and driven guy. Sometimes that can be amusing if the strange guy is your next door neighbor or crazy uncle. But when he owns a major car company, it can result in workers getting hurt or killed.<\/p>\n

Last May we wrote about a report<\/a> chronicling Tesla’s poor safety record. And things apparently aren’t getting any better.<\/p>\n

After\u00a0interviewing\u00a0more than three dozen current and former employees and managers — including five former members of its environment, health and safety team —\u00a0 and reviewing hundreds of pages of documents, a major investigative piece<\/a> by\u00a0Will Evans\u00a0and\u00a0Alyssa Jeong Perry\u00a0at Reveal and the Center for Investigative reporting found that Tesla is ignoring major health and safety issues in their Fremont, California plant and is making\u00a0the company\u2019s injury numbers look better than they actually are by repeatedly failing to\u00a0report some of its serious injuries on legally mandated OSHA reports.<\/p>\n

Why? Production over safety:\u00a0\u00a0\u201cEverything took a back seat to production,\u201d according to Justine White, a former safety lead, “It\u2019s just a matter of time before somebody gets killed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Almost every day there is an article<\/a> describing Tesla’s failure to meet its self imposed deadline for delivery of its moderately priced Model 3. And Musk seems to be taking out on his employees.<\/p>\n

Elon Doesn’t Want Signs<\/h2>\n

Elon Musk is a seriously weird guy who doesn’t like yellow lines on the floor (that set pedestrian safety lanes to avoid fork lifts) or clutter caused by safety signs, or noise caused by back-up beepers. So unpleasant!<\/p>\n

In her March 2017\u00a0resignation letter,<\/a>\u00a0White recounted the time she told her boss, Seth Woody, \u201cthat the plant layout was extremely dangerous to pedestrians.\u201d Woody, head of the safety team, told her \u201cthat Elon didn\u2019t want signs, anything yellow (like caution tape) or to wear safety shoes in the plant\u201d and acknowledged it \u201cwas a mess,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n

So what are we talking about? Exposure to un-monitored toxic chemicals, heavy manual lifting because mechanical lifts are too slow, lack of training, musculoskeletal injuries and on and on.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Elon didn\u2019t want signs, anything yellow (like caution tape) or to wear safety shoes in the plant<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There’s this:<\/p>\n

Last April, Tarik Logan suffered debilitating headaches from the fumes of a toxic glue he had to use at the plant. He texted his mom: \u201cI\u2019m n hella pain foreal something ain\u2019t right.\u201d The searing pain became so unbearable he couldn\u2019t work, and it plagued him for weeks.<\/p>\n

But Logan\u2019s inhalation injury, as it was diagnosed, never made it onto the official injury logs that state and federal law requires companies to keep. Neither did reports from other factory workers of sprains, strains and repetitive stress injuries from piecing together Tesla\u2019s sleek cars. Instead, company officials labeled the injuries personal medical issues or minor incidents requiring only first aid, according to internal company records obtained by Reveal.<\/p>\n

And this:<\/p>\n

When building Tesla\u2019s other cars, former workers said they had to sacrifice their bodies to save time. Some workers, for example, lifted heavy car seats over their shoulders because the mechanical assists designed to ease the load were too slow, said Joel Barraza, a former production associate.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople would carry a seat because they\u2019d be like, \u2018Oh, I gotta get this done.\u2019 I personally carried a seat,\u201d Barraza said. \u201cThey\u2019re supposed to move. Move it on, move it on, keep the line going.\u201d<\/p>\n

White, the former safety lead, also said workers sometimes lifted seats manually, but Tesla, in a statement, said it doesn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n

A former Tesla safety professional … said the company systematically undercounted injuries by mislabeling them<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And this:<\/p>\n

A former Tesla safety professional … said the company systematically undercounted injuries by mislabeling them. \u201cI saw injuries on there like broken bones and lacerations that they were saying were not recordable\u201d as injuries, said the safety professional, who asked to remain anonymous. \u201cI saw a lot of stuff that was like, \u2018Wow, this is crazy.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n

Even where supervisors labeled an injury job-related, it often didn’t get recorded on OSHA logs:<\/p>\n

For a dozen examples provided to the company by Reveal, Tesla stood by its decision to not count them. It said workers may have thought they were injured because of their jobs, and supervisors may have assumed the same. But later, Tesla said, a medical professional \u2013 sometimes contracted or affiliated with the company \u2013 determined there was no connection to work.<\/p>\n

\u00a0“It\u2019s just a matter of time before somebody gets killed.\u201d\u00a0 – Justine White, former Tesla safety lead<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And then there are injuries suffered by temporary workers. Companies must count those injuries if they supervise the temps:<\/p>\n

At one point, though, White said she asked her supervisor why the injury rate seemed off, and he told her they weren\u2019t counting temp worker injuries.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey knew they were reporting incorrect numbers,\u201d White said. \u201cThose workers were being injured on the floor and that wasn\u2019t being captured, and they knew that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tesla began to fix that problem in 2017, former employees said, but it\u2019s unclear how consistently.<\/p>\n

After workers requested the company\u2019s injury logs last year, Tesla amended<\/a>\u00a0its\u00a0original<\/a>\u00a02016 report to add 135 injuries that hadn\u2019t been counted previously. The company said it changed the numbers after it discovered injuries that hadn\u2019t been shared with Tesla by its temp agencies.<\/p>\n

Average Isn’t Good Enough…Until It Is<\/h2>\n

Now, we wrote about the health and safety problems at Tesla last year after\u00a0Worksafe<\/a>, a California-based organization that works to prevent injury, illness, and death,\u00a0issued a report<\/a>\u00a0finding that the rate of serious worker injuries at Tesla\u2019s Fremont, California plant was approximately double the auto industry rate for 2015. Tesla rebutted that\u00a0in 2017, Tesla\u2019s overall injury rate was dramatically better in the first quarter of the year. And Musk later stated that even being “average” wasn’t good enough for him. He\u00a0wanted to be better than average:<\/p>\n

Last year, Musk claimed in a\u00a0staffwide email<\/a>\u00a0and at a\u00a0shareholder meeting<\/a> that the company\u2019s injury rate was much better than the industry average. A company\u00a0blog post<\/a>\u00a0said that to be average would be \u201cto go backwards.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then Tesla apparently did hit reverse.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur 2017 data showed that we are at industry average, so we\u2019re happy about that,\u201d Shelby said, explaining the earlier claims as a \u201csnapshot in time.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Calculated Disinformation Campaign Driven by Extremists<\/h2>\n

So how did Tesla respond to the Reveal investigation? Maybe something like “thanks for pointing out these serious problems. We will do whatever is necessary, no matter the cost, to fix them?”<\/p>\n

Not exactly. More like a\u00a0statement\u00a0<\/a>accusing Reveal of being a tool in an ongoing unionization drive and portraying \u201ca completely false picture of Tesla and what it is actually like to work here.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn our view, what they portray as investigative journalism is in fact an ideologically motivated attack by an extremist organization working directly with union supporters to create a calculated disinformation campaign against Tesla.\u201d<\/p>\n

Well at least they didn’t call the Reveal journalists “slime bags.”<\/p>\n

The UAW has been trying to organize the plant for some time. The authors of the article noted that “Some of the workers who spoke to Reveal have supported the unionization effort, while many others \u2013 including safety professionals\u00a0\u2013 had no involvement.”<\/p>\n

Volks Redux<\/h2>\n

And one more thing that wasn’t mentioned in the article. You all may remember last March when Congress repealed OSHA’s Volks regulation<\/a> that would have allowed OSHA to continue enforcing a requirement that employers maintain accurate injury and illness records for a period of five years.\u00a0 What that means is that in this case, let’s say OSHA launches an inspection of Tesla on May 1 and finds dozens or hundreds of cases of chronically and deliberately inaccurate recording of injuries and illnesses over the past five years. And let’s say it then takes OSHA four months to issue a citation. Due to the repeal of the Volks rule, OSHA would only be able to cite inaccurate recordkeeping for the months of March and April 2018, and most like issue a tiny penalty.<\/p>\n

As we’ve described before<\/a>, OSHA has in the past used large recordkeeping citations to drive major health and safety improvements in large companies and throughout entire industries. But no more. Thanks Trump (and Ryan and McConnell)<\/p>\n

Now, of course, Tesla is in California and is under CalOSHA’s authority, not federal OSHA’s authority.\u00a0 It’s unclear to me whether the Volks case, which limited OSHA recordkeeping citations to six months, applies in California. (Those who know the answer, feel free to use the comment link below.)<\/p>\n

I Can’t Sleep Here at Tesla<\/h2>\n

Former safety lead Justine White’s story says everything there is to say about Tesla’s approach to workplace safety:<\/p>\n

A few months into her job, White became so alarmed that she\u00a0wrote<\/a>\u00a0to a human resources manager that \u201cthe risk of injury is too high. People are getting hurt every day and near-hit incidents where people are getting almost crushed or hit by cars is unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n

The next day, she\u00a0emailed<\/a>\u00a0Sam Teller, Musk\u2019s chief of staff, that safety team leaders were failing to address the hazards.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know what can keep a person up at night regarding safety,\u201d she wrote. \u201cI must tell you that I can\u2019t sleep here at Tesla.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said she never heard back from Musk\u2019s office. She transferred departments and quit a couple months later, disillusioned.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, we hear that CalOSHA has opened a new inspection at Tesla.<\/p>\n

Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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