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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, a nonprofit news organization based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Learn more at \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/\">revealnews.org\u003c/a> and subscribe to the Reveal podcast, produced with PRX, at \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/podcast\">revealnews.org/podcast\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]I[/dropcap]nside Tesla’s electric car factory, giant red robots – some named for X-Men characters – heave car parts in the air, while workers wearing black toil on aluminum car bodies. Forklifts and tuggers zip by on gray-painted floors, differentiated from pedestrian walkways by another shade of gray.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s one color, though, that some of Tesla’s former safety experts wanted to see more of: yellow – the traditional hue of caution used to mark hazards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concerned about bone-crunching collisions and the lack of clearly marked pedestrian lanes at the Fremont, California, plant, the general assembly line’s then-lead safety professional went to her boss, who she said told her, “Elon does not like the color yellow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The melding of cutting-edge technology and world-saving vision is Tesla Inc.’s big draw. Many, including Justine White, the safety lead, went to work there inspired by Elon Musk, a CEO with star power and now a\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/science/shortcuts/2018/feb/07/forget-the-car-in-space-why-elon-musks-reusable-rockets-are-more-than-a-publicity-stunt\"> groundbreaking rocket\u003c/a> in space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What she and some of her colleagues found, they said, was a chaotic factory floor where style and speed trumped safety. Musk’s name often was invoked to justify shortcuts and shoot down concerns, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under fire for mounting injuries, Tesla recently\u003ca href=\"https://www.tesla.com/blog/becoming-safest-car-factory-world\"> touted a sharp drop\u003c/a> in its injury rate for 2017, which it says came down to meet the auto industry average of about 6.2 injuries per 100 workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But things are not always as they seem at Tesla. An \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/article/tesla-says-its-factory-is-safer-but-it-left-injuries-off-the-books\">investigation\u003c/a> by \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org/\">Reveal\u003c/a> from The Center for Investigative Reporting found that Tesla has failed to report some of its serious injuries on legally mandated reports, making the company’s injury numbers look better than they actually are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11662656\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-employee-injury-rate-final-2-800x613.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"613\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-employee-injury-rate-final-2-800x613.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-employee-injury-rate-final-2-160x123.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-employee-injury-rate-final-2-1020x782.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-employee-injury-rate-final-2-1180x904.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-employee-injury-rate-final-2-960x736.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-employee-injury-rate-final-2-240x184.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-employee-injury-rate-final-2-375x287.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-employee-injury-rate-final-2-520x399.png 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-employee-injury-rate-final-2.png 1190w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>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: “I’m n hella pain foreal something ain’t right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The searing pain became so unbearable he couldn’t work, and it plagued him for weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Logan’s 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’s sleek cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, company officials labeled the injuries personal medical issues or minor incidents requiring only first aid, according to internal company records obtained by Reveal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Undercounting injuries is one symptom of a more fundamental problem at Tesla: The company has put its manufacturing of electric cars above safety concerns, according to five former members of its environment, health and safety team who left the company last year. That, they said, has put workers unnecessarily in harm’s way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point, White said she warned superiors about a potential explosion hazard but was told they would defer to production managers because fixing the problem would require stopping the production line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From September 2016 to January 2017, White oversaw safety for thousands of workers on Tesla’s general assembly line, in charge of responding to injuries, reviewing injury records, teaching safety classes and assessing the factory for hazards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything took a back seat to production,” White said. “It’s just a matter of time before somebody gets killed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla, worth about $50 billion, employs more than 10,000 workers at its Fremont factory. Alongside the company’s remarkable rise, workers have been sliced by machinery, crushed by forklifts, burned in electrical explosions and sprayed with molten metal. Tesla recorded \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4419499-Tesla-300A-2017.html\">722 injuries\u003c/a> last year, about two a day. The rate of serious injuries, requiring time off or a work restriction, was 30 percent worse than the previous year’s industry average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frantic growth, constant changes and lax rules, combined with a CEO whom senior managers were afraid to cross, created an atmosphere in which few dared to stand up for worker safety, the former environment, health and safety team members told Reveal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in addition to yellow, Musk was said to dislike too many signs in the factory and the warning beeps forklifts make when backing up, former team members said. His preferences, they said, were well known and led to cutting back on those standard safety signals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If someone said, ‘Elon doesn’t like something,’ you were concerned because you could lose your job,” said Susan Rigmaiden, former environmental compliance manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few months into her job, White became so alarmed that she \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4419515-Justine-Email-to-HR.html\">wrote\u003c/a> to a human resources manager that “the 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.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day, she \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4416595-Justine-White-Email-to-Sam-Teller.html\">emailed\u003c/a> Sam Teller, Musk’s chief of staff, that safety team leaders were failing to address the hazards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know what can keep a person up at night regarding safety,” she wrote. “I must tell you that I can’t sleep here at Tesla.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she never heard back from Musk’s office. She transferred departments and quit a couple of months later, disillusioned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her March 2017 \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4437759-Resignation-Letter-Excerpt.html\">resignation letter,\u003c/a> White recounted the time she told her boss, Seth Woody, “that the plant layout was extremely dangerous to pedestrians.” Woody, head of the safety team, told her “that Elon didn’t want signs, anything yellow (like caution tape) or to wear safety shoes in the plant” and acknowledged it “was a mess,” she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She sent the letter directly to Musk and the head of human resources at the time – to no response, she said. Woody did not respond to inquiries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662661\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662661\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/031118_TESLA_DennisCruz_02-1024x683-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Tesla quality inspector Dennis Cruz has had a series of injuries that took him off the production line. At one point, living on workers’ compensation payments because of work-induced tendinitis, he ended up living in his car, unable to afford rent.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/031118_TESLA_DennisCruz_02-1024x683-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/031118_TESLA_DennisCruz_02-1024x683-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/031118_TESLA_DennisCruz_02-1024x683-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/031118_TESLA_DennisCruz_02-1024x683-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/031118_TESLA_DennisCruz_02-1024x683-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/031118_TESLA_DennisCruz_02-1024x683-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/031118_TESLA_DennisCruz_02-1024x683-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/031118_TESLA_DennisCruz_02-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tesla quality inspector Dennis Cruz has had a series of injuries that took him off the production line. At one point, living on workers’ compensation payments because of work-induced tendinitis, he ended up living in his car, unable to afford rent. \u003ccite>(Emily Harger/Reveal)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tesla officials dismissed all of White’s concerns as unsubstantiated. They insisted that the company records injuries accurately and cares deeply about the safety of its workers. As proof, company officials said a recent anonymous internal survey found 82 percent of employees agreed that “Tesla is committed to my health, safety and well-being.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before publication of this story, a Tesla spokesman sent a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4432415-Tesla-Statement.html\">statement\u003c/a> accusing Reveal of being a tool in an ongoing unionization drive and portraying “a completely false picture of Tesla and what it is actually like to work here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In 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,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla’s spokesman also sent photos of rails and posts in the factory that were painted yellow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reveal interviewed more than three dozen current and former employees and managers and reviewed hundreds of pages of documents. Some of the workers who spoke to Reveal have supported the unionization effort, while many others – including safety professionals – had no involvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Chaotic Factory Floor\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On one hand, Tesla boasts state-of-the-art machinery that makes it “like working for Iron Man,” as one former employee described it. On the other, the company relied on hoists that weren’t engineered or inspected before they were used to lift heavy car parts, according to a former safety team member, resulting in repeated accidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662666\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662666\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent-800x529.jpg\" alt=\"At Tesla’s electric car factory in Fremont, CEO Elon Musk’s name often was invoked to justify shortcuts and shoot down safety concerns, former safety experts for the company say. \" width=\"800\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent-800x529.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent-1020x675.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent-1200x794.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent-1180x781.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent-960x635.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent-240x159.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent-375x248.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent-520x344.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At Tesla’s electric car factory in Fremont, CEO Elon Musk’s name often was invoked to justify shortcuts and shoot down safety concerns, former safety experts for the company say. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The company is under immense pressure to ramp up manufacturing of the new Model 3 sedan, its first mass-market vehicle at $35,000. Musk initially said Tesla would be producing\u003ca href=\"https://mashable.com/2017/10/03/tesla-model-3-production-woes-analysis/#KH37hHQFemqw\"> 20,000 of them per month\u003c/a> by the end of 2017, but the company \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2018/04/03/tesla-misses-model-3-production-goal-once-again/?utm_term=.6679155b2d34\">just missed\u003c/a> its scaled-back promise to produce half that number.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla is often in a state of frenzied production. Former employees said they faced 12-hour workdays, faulty equipment and paltry training as they scrambled to come up with workarounds on the fly to get cars out the door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hustle meant that health and safety protocols could literally get left in the dust. Last year, construction workers cut through concrete to build the new Model 3 assembly line, spreading silica dust – which can cause cancer – without containing and testing it first, Rigmaiden and two other former members of the health and safety team said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the high stakes for life and limb, the safety professionals maintain safety training has been woefully inadequate. The company said all workers receive at least four days of training. But new employees often were pulled out of training early to fill spots on the factory floor, White and another former safety team member said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Team members were reluctant to speak to reporters, but said they agreed to in order to help improve conditions for current and future Tesla workers. Some asked to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals or hurting their careers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview, Tesla Chief People Officer Gaby Toledano, who joined the company in May, repeatedly questioned the motives of the former health and safety professionals and suggested they might have been “failing at their own job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toledano touted the hiring in October of Laurie Shelby as Tesla’s first vice president for environment, health and safety as an improvement in itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anybody who walks through our doors into this factory is our responsibility, and we care about them,” said Shelby, formerly safety vice president at aluminum manufacturer Alcoa. “I have a passion for safety and it’s about caring.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla disputed each of Reveal’s findings. The company said that it had no information that workers were exposed to silica dust and that it does regular air monitoring. It said that while some hoists did fail and injure workers, it was not due to a lack of engineering or inspections, and they have been improved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662669\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662669\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9143-1024x683-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Tesla officials Laurie Shelby (L) and Gaby Toledano read the concerns of then-safety lead Justine White, who emailed CEO Elon Musk’s chief of staff in 2016. “I know what can keep a person up at night regarding safety,” she wrote. “I must tell you that I can’t sleep here at Tesla.” Tesla says her concerns were unsubstantiated. \" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9143-1024x683-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9143-1024x683-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9143-1024x683-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9143-1024x683-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9143-1024x683-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9143-1024x683-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9143-1024x683-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9143-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tesla officials Laurie Shelby (L) and Gaby Toledano read the concerns of then-safety lead Justine White, who emailed CEO Elon Musk’s chief of staff in 2016. “I know what can keep a person up at night regarding safety,” she wrote. “I must tell you that I can’t sleep here at Tesla.” Tesla says her concerns were unsubstantiated. \u003ccite>(Paul Kuroda/Reveal)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Toledano and Shelby said they had never heard of Musk’s purported aesthetic preferences and pointed out that the factory does have some yellow. Both distanced themselves from what might have happened before their tenure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all injured workers have given up on Tesla, either. Dennis Cruz has had his share of injuries, yet he still wants to get back to the production line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point, out on workers’ compensation because of work-induced tendinitis, Cruz ended up living in his car, unable to afford rent. Then, in late 2016, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4436216-SDS-BM4601.html\">toxic\u003c/a> adhesive many workers complain about got in his eye, damaging his cornea. And in September, as a quality inspector, Cruz says he put out a fire that broke out on a car body, inhaling fumes from burning chemicals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cruz, 42, is on light duty as he struggles with shortness of breath, coughing spells and headaches. But he wants to provide for his family, apply his skills and get promoted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t do that on workers’ comp. I can’t do that away from the factory,” he said. “That’s why I push to go back. I push to go back into the fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Discrepancies in Injury Counts\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In Tesla’s internal injury tracking system, a supervisor wrote that a worker couldn’t come to work one day in February 2017 because “his left arm was in pain from installing Wiper motors during his shift.” One worker “fainted and hit head on floor” because “team member was working in a group setting and became uncomfortably hot.” Another employee, a supervisor noted, was “highly relied upon at this workstation” but injured her shoulder from repetitive motion due to an “Unfriendly Ergonomic Process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla is required by law to report every work-related injury that results in days away from work, job restrictions or medical treatment beyond first aid. But those injuries were labeled “personal medical” cases, meaning work had nothing to do with them. So they weren’t counted when Tesla tallied its injuries on legally mandated reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662683\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662683\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Y5I6227-1024x683-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"New Tesla employees learn how to use tools safely in a training session at the Fremont factory. State safety regulators have cited Tesla eight times since 2013 for deficient training, including twice in the last year. \" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Y5I6227-1024x683-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Y5I6227-1024x683-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Y5I6227-1024x683-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Y5I6227-1024x683-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Y5I6227-1024x683-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Y5I6227-1024x683-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Y5I6227-1024x683-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Y5I6227-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">New Tesla employees learn how to use tools safely in a training session at the Fremont factory. State safety regulators have cited Tesla eight times since 2013 for deficient training, including twice in the last year. \u003ccite>(Paul Kuroda/Reveal)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The list of the uncounted goes on. One worker had back spasms when reaching for boxes, one sprained her back carrying something to a work table and one got a pinch in his back from bending over to apply sealer and couldn’t walk off the pain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By law, if something at work contributed to an injury – even if work wasn’t the only cause – the injury \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/t8/14300_5.html\">must be counted\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A former Tesla safety professional, however, said the company systematically undercounted injuries by mislabeling them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I saw injuries on there like broken bones and lacerations that they were saying were not recordable” as injuries, said the safety professional, who asked to remain anonymous. “I saw a lot of stuff that was like, ‘Wow, this is crazy.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reveal compared records from Tesla’s internal tracking system, obtained from a source, with the official logs, which were requested by an employee and provided to Reveal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>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 – sometimes contracted or affiliated with the company – determined there was no connection to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel very strongly,” Shelby said. “We are doing proper recordkeeping here at Tesla.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reveal also provided Tesla’s internal descriptions of the injuries, along with the company’s case-by-case response, to Doug Parker, executive director of Worksafe, an Oakland-based organization that \u003ca href=\"http://worksafe.typepad.com/files/worksafe_tesla5_24.pdf\">previously analyzed\u003c/a> Tesla’s official injury logs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The examples you’ve given me are concerning, troubling,” he said. “They suggest that Tesla isn’t reporting all the workplace injuries that they should be reporting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen to the podcast:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/429374469&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health has cited Tesla for more than 40 violations since 2013. Tesla’s rate of serious injuries that required time off or job restrictions was\u003ca href=\"http://worksafe.org/file_download/inline/83a169a1-2af7-4c2e-81a5-21b6965ff996\"> 83 percent higher\u003c/a> than the industry in 2016. Since then, however, Tesla says it has turned things around on its way to “\u003ca href=\"https://www.tesla.com/blog/becoming-safest-car-factory-world\">becoming the safest car factory in the world\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Musk claimed in a \u003ca href=\"https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/24/elon-musk-addresses-working-condition-claims-in-tesla-staff-wide-email/\">staffwide email\u003c/a> and at a \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/06/06/elon-musk-says-tesla-is-on-its-way-to-lowering-employees-injury-rate/\">shareholder meeting\u003c/a> that the company’s injury rate was much better than the industry average. A company \u003ca href=\"https://www.tesla.com/blog/creating-the-safest-car-factory-in-the-world\">blog post\u003c/a> said that to be average would be “to go backwards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then Tesla apparently did hit reverse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our 2017 data showed that we are at industry average, so we’re happy about that,” Shelby said, explaining the earlier claims as a “snapshot in time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Musk also \u003ca href=\"https://electrek.co/2017/06/02/elon-musk-tesla-injury-factory/\">emailed\u003c/a> his staff last year saying he was meeting weekly with the safety team and “would like to meet every injured person as soon as they are well, so that I can understand from them exactly what we need to do to make it better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toledano said Musk did meet with some injured workers, but no longer meets weekly with the safety team because it isn’t necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now I can’t claim he’s met with every injured worker,” she said. “I think that’s absurd.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several former members of the environment, health and safety team said they had other reasons to doubt Tesla’s official numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company, for example, didn’t always count injuries among the plant’s temporary workers, they said. Tesla fills some of its factory positions with temp workers who later may be offered permanent jobs. Companies must count those injuries if they supervise the temps, as Tesla does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the law,” agreed Tesla’s Shelby. “Based on my review of our data, we’ve always done that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662689\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662689\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9150-1024x683-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Laurie Shelby, Tesla’s vice president for environment, health and safety, points to the principles of her department listed on a placard at the car plant in Fremont.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9150-1024x683-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9150-1024x683-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9150-1024x683-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9150-1024x683-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9150-1024x683-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9150-1024x683-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9150-1024x683-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9150-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laurie Shelby, Tesla’s vice president for environment, health and safety, points to the principles of her department listed on a placard at the car plant in Fremont. \u003ccite>(Paul Kuroda/Reveal)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At one point, though, White said she asked her supervisor why the injury rate seemed off, and he told her they weren’t counting temp worker injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They knew they were reporting incorrect numbers,” White said. “Those workers were being injured on the floor and that wasn’t being captured, and they knew that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla began to fix that problem in 2017, former employees said, but it’s unclear how consistently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11662690\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final-800x537.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final-800x537.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final-1020x684.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final-1200x805.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final-1180x792.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final-960x644.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final-240x161.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final-375x252.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final-520x349.png 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final.png 1592w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After workers requested the company’s injury logs last year, Tesla\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4419502-Tesla-300A-2016-Amended.html\"> amended\u003c/a> its\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4419503-Tesla-300A-2016-initial.html\"> original\u003c/a> 2016 report to add 135 injuries that hadn’t been counted previously. The company said it changed the numbers after it discovered injuries that hadn’t been shared with Tesla by its temp agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Toxic Workplace Chemicals\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In April 2017, Tarik Logan – a temporary worker – was assigned to patch parts in Tesla’s battery packs with Henkel Loctite AA H3500. The powerful adhesive includes \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2016-09/documents/methyl-methacrylate.pdf\">toxic chemicals\u003c/a> that can cause \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4433392-LoctiteH3500-SDS-1808799.html\">allergic reactions and even genetic defects\u003c/a>. Logan and a former co-worker said they went through more than 100 tubes of the glue a day without adequate ventilation or protection from the fumes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First it brought dizziness, then headaches – the worst pain he’s ever felt, Logan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s a strong person,” said Toni Porter, his mother. “For him to cry out, it was terrifying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla referred Logan, then 23, to a medical clinic that diagnosed an “acute reaction to car adhesive glue causing headaches, dizziness, and some respiratory discomfort.” The doctor gave him prescription-strength painkillers and told him to avoid the glue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My head still hurt tho,” he texted Porter. “This Shit hurrrrrts!!!!!!!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These texts are among those sent by Tarik Logan to his mother, Toni Porter, while Logan worked at the Tesla factory in Fremont, California in April 2017:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11662690\" src=\"https://www.revealnews.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/texts34.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"537\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He missed work and ended up at the hospital multiple times, Logan and Porter said. Then Tesla declined to take him on as a permanent employee, citing attendance issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla, in response to Reveal’s inquiries, said it doesn’t agree with the doctor’s determination that Logan’s pain was work-related. In any case, Tesla said, it doesn’t count as an injury because it didn’t require any medical treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By law, however, just the prescription of pain medication – documented in medical records obtained by Reveal – \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/standardinterpretations/2007-02-06-1\">requires\u003c/a> that his injury be counted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Logan handled only a very small amount of the chemical and exposure levels were within standards, Tesla stated. The company also said Logan didn’t complain about headaches until he told a doctor a month later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That statement is contradicted by medical records and internal company records, which show that Logan’s supervisor put it in Tesla’s injury tracking system and Logan was diagnosed by a doctor a week after his headaches started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former safety team member who asked to remain anonymous said Tesla told workers that their reactions to workplace chemicals were personal medical problems instead of treating them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have employees at work that don’t know what they’re being exposed to, and nobody’s taking care of them,” the safety professional said. “It’s heartbreaking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662701\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662701\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_05-1024x679-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Eberley, 48, was diagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome in 2014. He injured his hand welding thousands of studs to car wheelhouses during nearly 12-hour days at Tesla.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_05-1024x679-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_05-1024x679-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_05-1024x679-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_05-1024x679-960x637.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_05-1024x679-240x159.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_05-1024x679-375x249.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_05-1024x679-520x345.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_05-1024x679.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Eberley, 48, was diagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome in 2014. He injured his hand welding thousands of studs to car wheelhouses during nearly 12-hour days at Tesla. \u003ccite>(Emily Harger/Reveal)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One worker is described in internal records as having gone to Tesla’s nurse “expressing concerns with the fumes in the area. Saying he feels like he is dying.” It was marked a personal medical issue, with a note that stated, “Beyond my skillset.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shelby, the safety vice president, said Tesla checks thoroughly for chemical exposures and “nowhere are we over any of the exposure limits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, regulators \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4390644-Inspection-1268303-Citations-Copy.html\">cited\u003c/a> the company for failing to “effectively assess the workplace” for chemical hazards, which Tesla is appealing.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Thrown to the Wolves’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If Tesla has been improving, it wasn’t fast enough for Alaa Alkhafagi, who joined Tesla in 2017 as an engineering technician servicing robots that spray paint on car bodies. Alkhafagi said he received no safety instruction specific to the paint department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, Alkhafagi, 27, said he was told to go underneath the painting booth to clear excess paint from a clogged hose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unsure of how to get down there, workers would pry up a piece of the metal flooring and jump in, he said. When he did, Alkhafagi’s foot got stuck in paint, his hand slipped and he fell forward, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4436269-Alkhafagi-Injury.html\">smashing\u003c/a> his head and arm. He ended up unable to make a fist or go back to his job, filing a workers’ compensation claim, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident didn’t end up on Tesla’s official injury logs. The company said it wasn’t recorded because Alkhafagi initially received only first aid. But his inability to go back to his normal work duties would mean that the injury should have been counted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s more than the accident,” Alkhafagi said. “They haven’t trained anyone properly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla said that after his injury, the company made sure only specially trained workers did that job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lack of adequate training was a problem throughout the factory, said Roger Croney, who oversaw workers in three different departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New employees with no factory experience were sent to Tesla’s die-casting operation – where aluminum is melted and molded into parts – without basic training specific to the job, said Croney, former associate manager in that department. Some didn’t know they’d be working with 1,200-degree molten metal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was far different from the General Motors plant in Ohio where Croney had worked for eight years, he said. So Croney took it upon himself to develop his own training program. A blast of liquid metal had burned his face and hands not long after he came to Tesla in 2012, and he took safety seriously. But other supervisors didn’t, Croney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662702\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662702\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AJ53579-1024x683-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Roger Croney oversaw workers in three different departments at Tesla. He took it upon himself to develop his own training program for new employees, whom he said were sometimes sent to work with no factory experience or basic training specific to the job. \" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AJ53579-1024x683-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AJ53579-1024x683-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AJ53579-1024x683-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AJ53579-1024x683-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AJ53579-1024x683-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AJ53579-1024x683-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AJ53579-1024x683-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AJ53579-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roger Croney oversaw workers in three different departments at Tesla. He took it upon himself to develop his own training program for new employees, whom he said were sometimes sent to work with no factory experience or basic training specific to the job. \u003ccite>(AJ Mast/Reveal)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“A lot of workers come in and they get thrown to the wolves,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Croney quit in March 2017 with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4432391-Roger-Croney-Resignation-Letter.html\">letter\u003c/a> alleging a pattern of discriminatory treatment. Croney, who is black, said he was passed over repeatedly by white people with less experience and then demoted to a supervisor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Tesla said Croney didn’t mention racial discrimination in his letter or exit interview. Croney has a pending claim of racial discrimination at Tesla with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State safety regulators have cited Tesla eight times since 2013 for deficient training, including twice in the last year, according to a Reveal review of records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla defended its training regimen, saying all new production employees get a day of orientation, a day of classroom instruction and two days of hands-on training in which they’re shown how to hold and use tools while avoiding injury. Workers building the Model 3 get an additional two days of virtual training on computers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Four days is pretty intensive,” Toledano said, “and then there’s ongoing training, so training is central.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Repetitive Stress Injuries\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Acknowledging that repetitive stress injuries are the most common way workers get hurt there, Tesla officials emphasize ergonomic improvements to the new Model 3 assembly line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We actually redesigned it so it’s safer for our employees to make,” Shelby said. “It’s super cool to see when it’s on the line how much easier it is to make the Model 3.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla, however, wouldn’t let reporters see that assembly line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662703\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662703\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory-800x528.jpg\" alt=\"Inside Tesla’s electric car factory in Fremont, the company is under immense pressure to ramp up production of the new Model 3 sedan, its first mass-market vehicle at $35,000.\" width=\"800\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory-800x528.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory-1020x673.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory-1200x791.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory-1180x778.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory-960x633.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory-240x158.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory-375x247.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory-520x343.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inside Tesla’s electric car factory in Fremont, the company is under immense pressure to ramp up production of the new Model 3 sedan, its first mass-market vehicle at $35,000. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When building Tesla’s 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.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People would carry a seat because they’d be like, ‘Oh, I gotta get this done.’ I personally carried a seat,” Barraza said. “They’re supposed to move. Move it on, move it on, keep the line going.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White, the former safety lead, also said workers sometimes lifted seats manually, but Tesla, in a statement, said it doesn’t happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barraza said he was fired along with hundreds of other workers last fall. Tesla said employees were\u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/10/13/4819750/\"> terminated en masse\u003c/a> due to performance issues, though some workers have argued they were \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/17/tesla-firings-former-and-current-employees-allege-layoffs.html\">cost-cutting layoffs\u003c/a> or used to \u003ca href=\"http://www.autonews.com/article/20171026/OEM01/171029793/tesla-uaw-labor-dispute-california\">punish union supporters\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662704\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662704\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_03-1024x682-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Eberley shows his scar from surgery after carpal tunnel syndrome left him unable to continue work at the Tesla factory in Fremont. He has been out of work for years. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_03-1024x682-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_03-1024x682-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_03-1024x682-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_03-1024x682-960x639.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_03-1024x682-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_03-1024x682-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_03-1024x682-520x346.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_03-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Eberley shows his scar from surgery after carpal tunnel syndrome left him unable to continue work at the Tesla factory in Fremont. He has been out of work for years. \u003ccite>(Emily Harger/Reveal)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Barraza said he and others hurt their backs through repetitive movements, but few complained because “supervisors would be like, ‘Oh, he’s just being a little bitch.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers’ accounts from 2017 didn’t sound much different from those who were injured years earlier. In 2014, Mark Eberley was diagnosed with Tesla-induced carpal tunnel syndrome. He wrecked his hand welding thousands of studs to car wheelhouses during nearly 12-hour days, he said. He needed surgery and was out of work and on workers’ compensation for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No matter what we were doing, it was hustle, hustle, hustle,” he said. “If you didn’t get your numbers, they’d be complaining to you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pressure could be crushing for white-collar workers as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At his office job at the Fremont factory, senior analyst Ali Khan prepared Tesla’s financial filings required by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. In 2016, the office was understaffed, and he worked at least 12 hours every day, he said – no weekends, holidays or days off at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pain from repetitive motion started in his wrists, radiated up his arms, then to his neck and back. He said he would have trouble holding a glass of water and couldn’t play with his 1-year-old daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khan said he asked for an ergonomic evaluation, but Tesla’s safety team told his manager they were too busy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My boss is telling me, ‘Oh, if you are going to take time off, it’s going to slow us down, it’s going to affect your reviews,'” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla eventually sent him to one of its preferred health clinics. A doctor there diagnosed him with work-related muscle strains and tendinitis, repeatedly prescribing painkillers and work restrictions, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4433386-Khan-Medical-Records.html\">medical records show\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That meant Khan had to be listed on Tesla’s injury logs. He wasn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khan said he still wasn’t allowed the doctor-ordered breaks. Forfeiting lucrative stock options, he submitted his resignation in August 2016. But his body hasn’t recovered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These things were preventable – that’s what makes me upset,” he said. “All of this could have been addressed, and it just wasn’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"ctx-article-root\">\u003c!-- -->\u003c/span> \u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"pixel-ping-tracker\" src=\"https://pixel.revealnews.org/pixel.gif?key=pixel.3rdrevnews.tesla-says-its-factory-is-safer-but-it-left-injuries-off-the-books.htkl4vtololw22goiwba\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\">\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, a nonprofit news organization based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Learn more at \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/\">revealnews.org\u003c/a> and subscribe to the Reveal podcast, produced with PRX, at \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/podcast\">revealnews.org/podcast\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">I\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>nside Tesla’s electric car factory, giant red robots – some named for X-Men characters – heave car parts in the air, while workers wearing black toil on aluminum car bodies. Forklifts and tuggers zip by on gray-painted floors, differentiated from pedestrian walkways by another shade of gray.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s one color, though, that some of Tesla’s former safety experts wanted to see more of: yellow – the traditional hue of caution used to mark hazards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concerned about bone-crunching collisions and the lack of clearly marked pedestrian lanes at the Fremont, California, plant, the general assembly line’s then-lead safety professional went to her boss, who she said told her, “Elon does not like the color yellow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The melding of cutting-edge technology and world-saving vision is Tesla Inc.’s big draw. Many, including Justine White, the safety lead, went to work there inspired by Elon Musk, a CEO with star power and now a\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/science/shortcuts/2018/feb/07/forget-the-car-in-space-why-elon-musks-reusable-rockets-are-more-than-a-publicity-stunt\"> groundbreaking rocket\u003c/a> in space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What she and some of her colleagues found, they said, was a chaotic factory floor where style and speed trumped safety. Musk’s name often was invoked to justify shortcuts and shoot down concerns, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under fire for mounting injuries, Tesla recently\u003ca href=\"https://www.tesla.com/blog/becoming-safest-car-factory-world\"> touted a sharp drop\u003c/a> in its injury rate for 2017, which it says came down to meet the auto industry average of about 6.2 injuries per 100 workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But things are not always as they seem at Tesla. An \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/article/tesla-says-its-factory-is-safer-but-it-left-injuries-off-the-books\">investigation\u003c/a> by \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org/\">Reveal\u003c/a> from The Center for Investigative Reporting found that Tesla has failed to report some of its serious injuries on legally mandated reports, making the company’s injury numbers look better than they actually are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11662656\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-employee-injury-rate-final-2-800x613.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"613\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-employee-injury-rate-final-2-800x613.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-employee-injury-rate-final-2-160x123.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-employee-injury-rate-final-2-1020x782.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-employee-injury-rate-final-2-1180x904.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-employee-injury-rate-final-2-960x736.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-employee-injury-rate-final-2-240x184.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-employee-injury-rate-final-2-375x287.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-employee-injury-rate-final-2-520x399.png 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-employee-injury-rate-final-2.png 1190w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>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: “I’m n hella pain foreal something ain’t right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The searing pain became so unbearable he couldn’t work, and it plagued him for weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Logan’s 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’s sleek cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, company officials labeled the injuries personal medical issues or minor incidents requiring only first aid, according to internal company records obtained by Reveal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Undercounting injuries is one symptom of a more fundamental problem at Tesla: The company has put its manufacturing of electric cars above safety concerns, according to five former members of its environment, health and safety team who left the company last year. That, they said, has put workers unnecessarily in harm’s way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point, White said she warned superiors about a potential explosion hazard but was told they would defer to production managers because fixing the problem would require stopping the production line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From September 2016 to January 2017, White oversaw safety for thousands of workers on Tesla’s general assembly line, in charge of responding to injuries, reviewing injury records, teaching safety classes and assessing the factory for hazards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything took a back seat to production,” White said. “It’s just a matter of time before somebody gets killed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla, worth about $50 billion, employs more than 10,000 workers at its Fremont factory. Alongside the company’s remarkable rise, workers have been sliced by machinery, crushed by forklifts, burned in electrical explosions and sprayed with molten metal. Tesla recorded \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4419499-Tesla-300A-2017.html\">722 injuries\u003c/a> last year, about two a day. The rate of serious injuries, requiring time off or a work restriction, was 30 percent worse than the previous year’s industry average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frantic growth, constant changes and lax rules, combined with a CEO whom senior managers were afraid to cross, created an atmosphere in which few dared to stand up for worker safety, the former environment, health and safety team members told Reveal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in addition to yellow, Musk was said to dislike too many signs in the factory and the warning beeps forklifts make when backing up, former team members said. His preferences, they said, were well known and led to cutting back on those standard safety signals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If someone said, ‘Elon doesn’t like something,’ you were concerned because you could lose your job,” said Susan Rigmaiden, former environmental compliance manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few months into her job, White became so alarmed that she \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4419515-Justine-Email-to-HR.html\">wrote\u003c/a> to a human resources manager that “the 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.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day, she \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4416595-Justine-White-Email-to-Sam-Teller.html\">emailed\u003c/a> Sam Teller, Musk’s chief of staff, that safety team leaders were failing to address the hazards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know what can keep a person up at night regarding safety,” she wrote. “I must tell you that I can’t sleep here at Tesla.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she never heard back from Musk’s office. She transferred departments and quit a couple of months later, disillusioned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her March 2017 \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4437759-Resignation-Letter-Excerpt.html\">resignation letter,\u003c/a> White recounted the time she told her boss, Seth Woody, “that the plant layout was extremely dangerous to pedestrians.” Woody, head of the safety team, told her “that Elon didn’t want signs, anything yellow (like caution tape) or to wear safety shoes in the plant” and acknowledged it “was a mess,” she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She sent the letter directly to Musk and the head of human resources at the time – to no response, she said. Woody did not respond to inquiries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662661\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662661\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/031118_TESLA_DennisCruz_02-1024x683-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Tesla quality inspector Dennis Cruz has had a series of injuries that took him off the production line. At one point, living on workers’ compensation payments because of work-induced tendinitis, he ended up living in his car, unable to afford rent.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/031118_TESLA_DennisCruz_02-1024x683-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/031118_TESLA_DennisCruz_02-1024x683-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/031118_TESLA_DennisCruz_02-1024x683-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/031118_TESLA_DennisCruz_02-1024x683-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/031118_TESLA_DennisCruz_02-1024x683-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/031118_TESLA_DennisCruz_02-1024x683-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/031118_TESLA_DennisCruz_02-1024x683-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/031118_TESLA_DennisCruz_02-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tesla quality inspector Dennis Cruz has had a series of injuries that took him off the production line. At one point, living on workers’ compensation payments because of work-induced tendinitis, he ended up living in his car, unable to afford rent. \u003ccite>(Emily Harger/Reveal)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tesla officials dismissed all of White’s concerns as unsubstantiated. They insisted that the company records injuries accurately and cares deeply about the safety of its workers. As proof, company officials said a recent anonymous internal survey found 82 percent of employees agreed that “Tesla is committed to my health, safety and well-being.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before publication of this story, a Tesla spokesman sent a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4432415-Tesla-Statement.html\">statement\u003c/a> accusing Reveal of being a tool in an ongoing unionization drive and portraying “a completely false picture of Tesla and what it is actually like to work here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In 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,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla’s spokesman also sent photos of rails and posts in the factory that were painted yellow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reveal interviewed more than three dozen current and former employees and managers and reviewed hundreds of pages of documents. Some of the workers who spoke to Reveal have supported the unionization effort, while many others – including safety professionals – had no involvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Chaotic Factory Floor\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On one hand, Tesla boasts state-of-the-art machinery that makes it “like working for Iron Man,” as one former employee described it. On the other, the company relied on hoists that weren’t engineered or inspected before they were used to lift heavy car parts, according to a former safety team member, resulting in repeated accidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662666\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662666\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent-800x529.jpg\" alt=\"At Tesla’s electric car factory in Fremont, CEO Elon Musk’s name often was invoked to justify shortcuts and shoot down safety concerns, former safety experts for the company say. \" width=\"800\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent-800x529.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent-1020x675.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent-1200x794.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent-1180x781.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent-960x635.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent-240x159.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent-375x248.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent-520x344.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At Tesla’s electric car factory in Fremont, CEO Elon Musk’s name often was invoked to justify shortcuts and shoot down safety concerns, former safety experts for the company say. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The company is under immense pressure to ramp up manufacturing of the new Model 3 sedan, its first mass-market vehicle at $35,000. Musk initially said Tesla would be producing\u003ca href=\"https://mashable.com/2017/10/03/tesla-model-3-production-woes-analysis/#KH37hHQFemqw\"> 20,000 of them per month\u003c/a> by the end of 2017, but the company \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2018/04/03/tesla-misses-model-3-production-goal-once-again/?utm_term=.6679155b2d34\">just missed\u003c/a> its scaled-back promise to produce half that number.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla is often in a state of frenzied production. Former employees said they faced 12-hour workdays, faulty equipment and paltry training as they scrambled to come up with workarounds on the fly to get cars out the door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hustle meant that health and safety protocols could literally get left in the dust. Last year, construction workers cut through concrete to build the new Model 3 assembly line, spreading silica dust – which can cause cancer – without containing and testing it first, Rigmaiden and two other former members of the health and safety team said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the high stakes for life and limb, the safety professionals maintain safety training has been woefully inadequate. The company said all workers receive at least four days of training. But new employees often were pulled out of training early to fill spots on the factory floor, White and another former safety team member said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Team members were reluctant to speak to reporters, but said they agreed to in order to help improve conditions for current and future Tesla workers. Some asked to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals or hurting their careers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview, Tesla Chief People Officer Gaby Toledano, who joined the company in May, repeatedly questioned the motives of the former health and safety professionals and suggested they might have been “failing at their own job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toledano touted the hiring in October of Laurie Shelby as Tesla’s first vice president for environment, health and safety as an improvement in itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anybody who walks through our doors into this factory is our responsibility, and we care about them,” said Shelby, formerly safety vice president at aluminum manufacturer Alcoa. “I have a passion for safety and it’s about caring.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla disputed each of Reveal’s findings. The company said that it had no information that workers were exposed to silica dust and that it does regular air monitoring. It said that while some hoists did fail and injure workers, it was not due to a lack of engineering or inspections, and they have been improved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662669\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662669\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9143-1024x683-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Tesla officials Laurie Shelby (L) and Gaby Toledano read the concerns of then-safety lead Justine White, who emailed CEO Elon Musk’s chief of staff in 2016. “I know what can keep a person up at night regarding safety,” she wrote. “I must tell you that I can’t sleep here at Tesla.” Tesla says her concerns were unsubstantiated. \" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9143-1024x683-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9143-1024x683-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9143-1024x683-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9143-1024x683-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9143-1024x683-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9143-1024x683-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9143-1024x683-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9143-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tesla officials Laurie Shelby (L) and Gaby Toledano read the concerns of then-safety lead Justine White, who emailed CEO Elon Musk’s chief of staff in 2016. “I know what can keep a person up at night regarding safety,” she wrote. “I must tell you that I can’t sleep here at Tesla.” Tesla says her concerns were unsubstantiated. \u003ccite>(Paul Kuroda/Reveal)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Toledano and Shelby said they had never heard of Musk’s purported aesthetic preferences and pointed out that the factory does have some yellow. Both distanced themselves from what might have happened before their tenure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all injured workers have given up on Tesla, either. Dennis Cruz has had his share of injuries, yet he still wants to get back to the production line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point, out on workers’ compensation because of work-induced tendinitis, Cruz ended up living in his car, unable to afford rent. Then, in late 2016, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4436216-SDS-BM4601.html\">toxic\u003c/a> adhesive many workers complain about got in his eye, damaging his cornea. And in September, as a quality inspector, Cruz says he put out a fire that broke out on a car body, inhaling fumes from burning chemicals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cruz, 42, is on light duty as he struggles with shortness of breath, coughing spells and headaches. But he wants to provide for his family, apply his skills and get promoted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t do that on workers’ comp. I can’t do that away from the factory,” he said. “That’s why I push to go back. I push to go back into the fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Discrepancies in Injury Counts\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In Tesla’s internal injury tracking system, a supervisor wrote that a worker couldn’t come to work one day in February 2017 because “his left arm was in pain from installing Wiper motors during his shift.” One worker “fainted and hit head on floor” because “team member was working in a group setting and became uncomfortably hot.” Another employee, a supervisor noted, was “highly relied upon at this workstation” but injured her shoulder from repetitive motion due to an “Unfriendly Ergonomic Process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla is required by law to report every work-related injury that results in days away from work, job restrictions or medical treatment beyond first aid. But those injuries were labeled “personal medical” cases, meaning work had nothing to do with them. So they weren’t counted when Tesla tallied its injuries on legally mandated reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662683\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662683\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Y5I6227-1024x683-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"New Tesla employees learn how to use tools safely in a training session at the Fremont factory. State safety regulators have cited Tesla eight times since 2013 for deficient training, including twice in the last year. \" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Y5I6227-1024x683-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Y5I6227-1024x683-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Y5I6227-1024x683-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Y5I6227-1024x683-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Y5I6227-1024x683-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Y5I6227-1024x683-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Y5I6227-1024x683-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Y5I6227-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">New Tesla employees learn how to use tools safely in a training session at the Fremont factory. State safety regulators have cited Tesla eight times since 2013 for deficient training, including twice in the last year. \u003ccite>(Paul Kuroda/Reveal)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The list of the uncounted goes on. One worker had back spasms when reaching for boxes, one sprained her back carrying something to a work table and one got a pinch in his back from bending over to apply sealer and couldn’t walk off the pain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By law, if something at work contributed to an injury – even if work wasn’t the only cause – the injury \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/t8/14300_5.html\">must be counted\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A former Tesla safety professional, however, said the company systematically undercounted injuries by mislabeling them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I saw injuries on there like broken bones and lacerations that they were saying were not recordable” as injuries, said the safety professional, who asked to remain anonymous. “I saw a lot of stuff that was like, ‘Wow, this is crazy.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reveal compared records from Tesla’s internal tracking system, obtained from a source, with the official logs, which were requested by an employee and provided to Reveal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>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 – sometimes contracted or affiliated with the company – determined there was no connection to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel very strongly,” Shelby said. “We are doing proper recordkeeping here at Tesla.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reveal also provided Tesla’s internal descriptions of the injuries, along with the company’s case-by-case response, to Doug Parker, executive director of Worksafe, an Oakland-based organization that \u003ca href=\"http://worksafe.typepad.com/files/worksafe_tesla5_24.pdf\">previously analyzed\u003c/a> Tesla’s official injury logs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The examples you’ve given me are concerning, troubling,” he said. “They suggest that Tesla isn’t reporting all the workplace injuries that they should be reporting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen to the podcast:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/429374469&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health has cited Tesla for more than 40 violations since 2013. Tesla’s rate of serious injuries that required time off or job restrictions was\u003ca href=\"http://worksafe.org/file_download/inline/83a169a1-2af7-4c2e-81a5-21b6965ff996\"> 83 percent higher\u003c/a> than the industry in 2016. Since then, however, Tesla says it has turned things around on its way to “\u003ca href=\"https://www.tesla.com/blog/becoming-safest-car-factory-world\">becoming the safest car factory in the world\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Musk claimed in a \u003ca href=\"https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/24/elon-musk-addresses-working-condition-claims-in-tesla-staff-wide-email/\">staffwide email\u003c/a> and at a \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/06/06/elon-musk-says-tesla-is-on-its-way-to-lowering-employees-injury-rate/\">shareholder meeting\u003c/a> that the company’s injury rate was much better than the industry average. A company \u003ca href=\"https://www.tesla.com/blog/creating-the-safest-car-factory-in-the-world\">blog post\u003c/a> said that to be average would be “to go backwards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then Tesla apparently did hit reverse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our 2017 data showed that we are at industry average, so we’re happy about that,” Shelby said, explaining the earlier claims as a “snapshot in time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Musk also \u003ca href=\"https://electrek.co/2017/06/02/elon-musk-tesla-injury-factory/\">emailed\u003c/a> his staff last year saying he was meeting weekly with the safety team and “would like to meet every injured person as soon as they are well, so that I can understand from them exactly what we need to do to make it better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toledano said Musk did meet with some injured workers, but no longer meets weekly with the safety team because it isn’t necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now I can’t claim he’s met with every injured worker,” she said. “I think that’s absurd.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several former members of the environment, health and safety team said they had other reasons to doubt Tesla’s official numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company, for example, didn’t always count injuries among the plant’s temporary workers, they said. Tesla fills some of its factory positions with temp workers who later may be offered permanent jobs. Companies must count those injuries if they supervise the temps, as Tesla does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the law,” agreed Tesla’s Shelby. “Based on my review of our data, we’ve always done that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662689\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662689\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9150-1024x683-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Laurie Shelby, Tesla’s vice president for environment, health and safety, points to the principles of her department listed on a placard at the car plant in Fremont.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9150-1024x683-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9150-1024x683-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9150-1024x683-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9150-1024x683-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9150-1024x683-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9150-1024x683-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9150-1024x683-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9150-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laurie Shelby, Tesla’s vice president for environment, health and safety, points to the principles of her department listed on a placard at the car plant in Fremont. \u003ccite>(Paul Kuroda/Reveal)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At one point, though, White said she asked her supervisor why the injury rate seemed off, and he told her they weren’t counting temp worker injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They knew they were reporting incorrect numbers,” White said. “Those workers were being injured on the floor and that wasn’t being captured, and they knew that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla began to fix that problem in 2017, former employees said, but it’s unclear how consistently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11662690\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final-800x537.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final-800x537.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final-1020x684.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final-1200x805.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final-1180x792.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final-960x644.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final-240x161.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final-375x252.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final-520x349.png 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final.png 1592w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After workers requested the company’s injury logs last year, Tesla\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4419502-Tesla-300A-2016-Amended.html\"> amended\u003c/a> its\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4419503-Tesla-300A-2016-initial.html\"> original\u003c/a> 2016 report to add 135 injuries that hadn’t been counted previously. The company said it changed the numbers after it discovered injuries that hadn’t been shared with Tesla by its temp agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Toxic Workplace Chemicals\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In April 2017, Tarik Logan – a temporary worker – was assigned to patch parts in Tesla’s battery packs with Henkel Loctite AA H3500. The powerful adhesive includes \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2016-09/documents/methyl-methacrylate.pdf\">toxic chemicals\u003c/a> that can cause \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4433392-LoctiteH3500-SDS-1808799.html\">allergic reactions and even genetic defects\u003c/a>. Logan and a former co-worker said they went through more than 100 tubes of the glue a day without adequate ventilation or protection from the fumes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First it brought dizziness, then headaches – the worst pain he’s ever felt, Logan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s a strong person,” said Toni Porter, his mother. “For him to cry out, it was terrifying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla referred Logan, then 23, to a medical clinic that diagnosed an “acute reaction to car adhesive glue causing headaches, dizziness, and some respiratory discomfort.” The doctor gave him prescription-strength painkillers and told him to avoid the glue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My head still hurt tho,” he texted Porter. “This Shit hurrrrrts!!!!!!!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These texts are among those sent by Tarik Logan to his mother, Toni Porter, while Logan worked at the Tesla factory in Fremont, California in April 2017:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11662690\" src=\"https://www.revealnews.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/texts34.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"537\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He missed work and ended up at the hospital multiple times, Logan and Porter said. Then Tesla declined to take him on as a permanent employee, citing attendance issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla, in response to Reveal’s inquiries, said it doesn’t agree with the doctor’s determination that Logan’s pain was work-related. In any case, Tesla said, it doesn’t count as an injury because it didn’t require any medical treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By law, however, just the prescription of pain medication – documented in medical records obtained by Reveal – \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/standardinterpretations/2007-02-06-1\">requires\u003c/a> that his injury be counted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Logan handled only a very small amount of the chemical and exposure levels were within standards, Tesla stated. The company also said Logan didn’t complain about headaches until he told a doctor a month later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That statement is contradicted by medical records and internal company records, which show that Logan’s supervisor put it in Tesla’s injury tracking system and Logan was diagnosed by a doctor a week after his headaches started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former safety team member who asked to remain anonymous said Tesla told workers that their reactions to workplace chemicals were personal medical problems instead of treating them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have employees at work that don’t know what they’re being exposed to, and nobody’s taking care of them,” the safety professional said. “It’s heartbreaking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662701\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662701\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_05-1024x679-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Eberley, 48, was diagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome in 2014. He injured his hand welding thousands of studs to car wheelhouses during nearly 12-hour days at Tesla.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_05-1024x679-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_05-1024x679-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_05-1024x679-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_05-1024x679-960x637.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_05-1024x679-240x159.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_05-1024x679-375x249.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_05-1024x679-520x345.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_05-1024x679.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Eberley, 48, was diagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome in 2014. He injured his hand welding thousands of studs to car wheelhouses during nearly 12-hour days at Tesla. \u003ccite>(Emily Harger/Reveal)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One worker is described in internal records as having gone to Tesla’s nurse “expressing concerns with the fumes in the area. Saying he feels like he is dying.” It was marked a personal medical issue, with a note that stated, “Beyond my skillset.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shelby, the safety vice president, said Tesla checks thoroughly for chemical exposures and “nowhere are we over any of the exposure limits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, regulators \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4390644-Inspection-1268303-Citations-Copy.html\">cited\u003c/a> the company for failing to “effectively assess the workplace” for chemical hazards, which Tesla is appealing.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Thrown to the Wolves’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If Tesla has been improving, it wasn’t fast enough for Alaa Alkhafagi, who joined Tesla in 2017 as an engineering technician servicing robots that spray paint on car bodies. Alkhafagi said he received no safety instruction specific to the paint department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, Alkhafagi, 27, said he was told to go underneath the painting booth to clear excess paint from a clogged hose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unsure of how to get down there, workers would pry up a piece of the metal flooring and jump in, he said. When he did, Alkhafagi’s foot got stuck in paint, his hand slipped and he fell forward, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4436269-Alkhafagi-Injury.html\">smashing\u003c/a> his head and arm. He ended up unable to make a fist or go back to his job, filing a workers’ compensation claim, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident didn’t end up on Tesla’s official injury logs. The company said it wasn’t recorded because Alkhafagi initially received only first aid. But his inability to go back to his normal work duties would mean that the injury should have been counted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s more than the accident,” Alkhafagi said. “They haven’t trained anyone properly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla said that after his injury, the company made sure only specially trained workers did that job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lack of adequate training was a problem throughout the factory, said Roger Croney, who oversaw workers in three different departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New employees with no factory experience were sent to Tesla’s die-casting operation – where aluminum is melted and molded into parts – without basic training specific to the job, said Croney, former associate manager in that department. Some didn’t know they’d be working with 1,200-degree molten metal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was far different from the General Motors plant in Ohio where Croney had worked for eight years, he said. So Croney took it upon himself to develop his own training program. A blast of liquid metal had burned his face and hands not long after he came to Tesla in 2012, and he took safety seriously. But other supervisors didn’t, Croney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662702\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662702\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AJ53579-1024x683-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Roger Croney oversaw workers in three different departments at Tesla. He took it upon himself to develop his own training program for new employees, whom he said were sometimes sent to work with no factory experience or basic training specific to the job. \" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AJ53579-1024x683-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AJ53579-1024x683-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AJ53579-1024x683-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AJ53579-1024x683-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AJ53579-1024x683-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AJ53579-1024x683-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AJ53579-1024x683-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AJ53579-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roger Croney oversaw workers in three different departments at Tesla. He took it upon himself to develop his own training program for new employees, whom he said were sometimes sent to work with no factory experience or basic training specific to the job. \u003ccite>(AJ Mast/Reveal)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“A lot of workers come in and they get thrown to the wolves,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Croney quit in March 2017 with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4432391-Roger-Croney-Resignation-Letter.html\">letter\u003c/a> alleging a pattern of discriminatory treatment. Croney, who is black, said he was passed over repeatedly by white people with less experience and then demoted to a supervisor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Tesla said Croney didn’t mention racial discrimination in his letter or exit interview. Croney has a pending claim of racial discrimination at Tesla with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State safety regulators have cited Tesla eight times since 2013 for deficient training, including twice in the last year, according to a Reveal review of records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla defended its training regimen, saying all new production employees get a day of orientation, a day of classroom instruction and two days of hands-on training in which they’re shown how to hold and use tools while avoiding injury. Workers building the Model 3 get an additional two days of virtual training on computers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Four days is pretty intensive,” Toledano said, “and then there’s ongoing training, so training is central.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Repetitive Stress Injuries\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Acknowledging that repetitive stress injuries are the most common way workers get hurt there, Tesla officials emphasize ergonomic improvements to the new Model 3 assembly line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We actually redesigned it so it’s safer for our employees to make,” Shelby said. “It’s super cool to see when it’s on the line how much easier it is to make the Model 3.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla, however, wouldn’t let reporters see that assembly line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662703\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662703\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory-800x528.jpg\" alt=\"Inside Tesla’s electric car factory in Fremont, the company is under immense pressure to ramp up production of the new Model 3 sedan, its first mass-market vehicle at $35,000.\" width=\"800\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory-800x528.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory-1020x673.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory-1200x791.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory-1180x778.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory-960x633.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory-240x158.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory-375x247.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory-520x343.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inside Tesla’s electric car factory in Fremont, the company is under immense pressure to ramp up production of the new Model 3 sedan, its first mass-market vehicle at $35,000. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When building Tesla’s 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.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People would carry a seat because they’d be like, ‘Oh, I gotta get this done.’ I personally carried a seat,” Barraza said. “They’re supposed to move. Move it on, move it on, keep the line going.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White, the former safety lead, also said workers sometimes lifted seats manually, but Tesla, in a statement, said it doesn’t happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barraza said he was fired along with hundreds of other workers last fall. Tesla said employees were\u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/10/13/4819750/\"> terminated en masse\u003c/a> due to performance issues, though some workers have argued they were \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/17/tesla-firings-former-and-current-employees-allege-layoffs.html\">cost-cutting layoffs\u003c/a> or used to \u003ca href=\"http://www.autonews.com/article/20171026/OEM01/171029793/tesla-uaw-labor-dispute-california\">punish union supporters\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662704\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662704\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_03-1024x682-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Eberley shows his scar from surgery after carpal tunnel syndrome left him unable to continue work at the Tesla factory in Fremont. He has been out of work for years. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_03-1024x682-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_03-1024x682-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_03-1024x682-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_03-1024x682-960x639.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_03-1024x682-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_03-1024x682-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_03-1024x682-520x346.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_03-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Eberley shows his scar from surgery after carpal tunnel syndrome left him unable to continue work at the Tesla factory in Fremont. He has been out of work for years. \u003ccite>(Emily Harger/Reveal)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Barraza said he and others hurt their backs through repetitive movements, but few complained because “supervisors would be like, ‘Oh, he’s just being a little bitch.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers’ accounts from 2017 didn’t sound much different from those who were injured years earlier. In 2014, Mark Eberley was diagnosed with Tesla-induced carpal tunnel syndrome. He wrecked his hand welding thousands of studs to car wheelhouses during nearly 12-hour days, he said. He needed surgery and was out of work and on workers’ compensation for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No matter what we were doing, it was hustle, hustle, hustle,” he said. “If you didn’t get your numbers, they’d be complaining to you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pressure could be crushing for white-collar workers as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At his office job at the Fremont factory, senior analyst Ali Khan prepared Tesla’s financial filings required by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. In 2016, the office was understaffed, and he worked at least 12 hours every day, he said – no weekends, holidays or days off at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pain from repetitive motion started in his wrists, radiated up his arms, then to his neck and back. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 3 a.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Transportation Safety Board, which is looking into the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11658404/safety-agency-orders-probe-of-tesla-crash-and-fire-as-company-points-to-freeway-hazard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fatal crash last month\u003c/a> of an SUV using Tesla's Autopilot system, said it is removing the high-tech automaker from the probe for improperly disclosing details of the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla says it withdrew from the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The NTSB is examining last month's crash of a 2017 Tesla Model X near Mountain View. The vehicle crashed into a concrete lane divider, killing the driver, Walter Huang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11659115/tesla-says-vehicle-in-deadly-crash-was-on-autopilot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tesla blamed Huang for the accident\u003c/a>, which the NTSB contends runs counter to agency protocols.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-12/tesla-withdraws-from-ntsb-crash-probe-over-autopilot-data-flap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bloomberg notes\u003c/a>, \"The NTSB guards the integrity of its investigations closely, demanding that participants adhere to rules about what information they can release and their expected cooperation. These so-called parties to investigations must sign legal agreements laying out their responsibilities.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Tesla violated the party agreement by releasing investigative information before it was vetted and confirmed by the NTSB,\" the agency said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ntsb.gov/news/press-releases/Pages/NR20180412.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement\u003c/a>. \"Such releases of incomplete information often lead to speculation and incorrect assumptions about the probable cause of a crash.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is unfortunate that Tesla, by its actions, did not abide by the party agreement,\" said NTSB Chairman Robert Sumwalt. \"We decided to revoke Tesla's party status and informed Mr. Musk in a phone call last evening and \u003ca href=\"http://link.email.dynect.net/link.php?DynEngagement=true&H=oGJ1pkZyysOST8btnWeAdWfazdP60O3PLkuOZioW2RiI0IVhceklyikuuz730yACd%2BvEm0h%2B113mSmdgAw4ydO/suCeYKBzFnZcYcVV9wFyhwIiDVPNWUXsWB7zNOf9z&G=0&R=https://goo.gl/gZofXm&I=20180412174102.0000002a26a4%40mail6-94-usnbn1&X=MHwxMDQ2NzU4OjVhY2Y5YTJkYzdiZjIyZTQ3NTEzMTllNTs%3D&S=aToOg89TnPzHZ7NglVgNSTnTz0lqFtcgJ5Y1HLJiKOA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">via letter \u003c/a>today. While we understand the demand for information that parties face during an NTSB investigation, uncoordinated releases of incomplete information do not further transportation safety or serve the public interest.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement emailed to NPR, a Tesla spokesperson said the company decided to withdraw from the agreement of its own accord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Last week, in a conversation with the NTSB, we were told that if we made additional statements before their 12-24 month investigative process is complete, we would no longer be a party to the investigation agreement. On Tuesday, we chose to withdraw from the agreement and issued a statement to correct misleading claims that had been made about Autopilot — claims which made it seem as though Autopilot creates safety problems when the opposite is true,\" the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's been clear in our conversations with the NTSB that they're more concerned with press headlines than actually promoting safety,\" Tesla said. \"Among other things, they repeatedly released partial bits of incomplete information to the media in violation of their own rules, at the same time that they were trying to prevent us from telling all the facts.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/tesla-withdraws-from-ntsb-agreement-in-fatal-crash-probe-1523547055\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Wall Street Journal\u003c/a> writes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Removals from NTSB party agreements are rare. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"#update\">Updated 12:45 p.m. Thursday\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one knows yet exactly why a Tesla Model X crashed last Friday on U.S. 101 in Mountain View, killing its 38-year-old driver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But both the carmaker and federal and state investigators are looking at a range of factors surrounding the crash and its aftermath, including whether the electric vehicle’s Autopilot system was engaged, the apparent absence of a safety barrier that may have made the crash impact more severe and the fact local firefighters needed to call Tesla for help in controlling the battery fire that followed the crash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crash occurred just before 9:30 a.m. Friday, when the Model X struck a concrete highway divider along southbound U.S. 101. The CHP reported the crash occurred “at freeway speeds,” and witnesses said the Model X burst into flames immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities identified the driver as Wei Huang, 38, of Mountain View, though he was known to family, friends and associates as Walter Huang. He died at Stanford University Medical Center several hours after the crash. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huang was a longtime software engineer at Electronic Arts before taking an engineering job at Apple last November. Huang was lived in Foster City and was married with two children. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CHP confirmed Thursday that Huang’s family has told investigators he had reported problems with his Model X’s Autopilot system at the same spot where he crashed Friday. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Report: Vehicle ‘Would Swivel Toward Barrier’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ABC7 on Wednesday night \u003ca href=\"http://abc7news.com/automotive/i-team-exclusive-victim-who-died-in-tesla-crash-had-complained-about-auto-pilot/3275600/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">quoted\u003c/a> Huang’s brother as saying Walter Huang had told family members of multiple occasions when the Model X “would swivel toward that same exact barrier during auto-pilot.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will Huang told ABC7 that his brother brought the car into a dealership to have the problem checked out, but technicians could not duplicate the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the report, Tesla said it had no records of a service visit specifically related to the car’s Autopilot system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company said in \u003ca href=\"https://www.tesla.com/blog/what-we-know-about-last-weeks-accident\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a statement\u003c/a> late Tuesday that because of severe damage to the SUV, it has been unable so far to recover data from the car’s onboard computer. The data could show whether the car’s semi-autonomous Autopilot system was engaged at the time of the crash, whether the vehicle’s brakes were applied before the collision and other information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla’s statement highlighted the role of a missing safety barrier — called a crash attenuator — at the crash site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crash occurred at a point where the left lane of southbound 101 exits onto a flyover ramp that carries traffic to southbound Highway 85. As traffic moves toward the ramp, it’s separated from the flow of southbound 101 by a concrete divider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google Streetview images show that since 2011, Caltrans has replaced a simple guardrail at the site and installed a crash attenuator — in this case, a steel framework designed to collapse upon impact to dissipate the energy of a crash — to reduce the danger to motorists who may hit the concrete wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11658421\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 458px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/crash1.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11658421\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/crash1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"458\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/crash1.png 458w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/crash1-160x84.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/crash1-240x126.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/crash1-375x197.png 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Google Streetview image from November 2017 shows a crash attenuator in place at an exit from southbound U.S. 101 to southbound Highway 85 in Mountain View. \u003ccite>(Google Streetview via Tesla)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11658420\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 459px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/crash2.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11658420\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/crash2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"459\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/crash2.png 459w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/crash2-160x83.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/crash2-240x124.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/crash2-375x194.png 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An image that Tesla says was taken March 22 and shows crash attenuator missing from site of fatal Model X incident the following day. Tesla says the severity of the crash was due to the absence of the safety barrier. \u003ccite>(Tesla )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tesla’s statement compares a Streetview image from November to a picture captured by a passing vehicle’s dashboard camera last Thursday and says the images prove the crash attenuator was not in place. The company makes a further claim, too: that the absence of the safety barrier was primarily responsible for the devastating damage the crash caused to the company’s vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reason this crash was so severe is that the crash attenuator, a highway safety barrier which is designed to reduce the impact into a concrete lane divider, had either been removed or crushed in a prior accident without being replaced,” Tesla said. “… We have never seen this level of damage to a Model X in any other crash.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Transportation Safety Board told the Washington Post the agency is “looking at the damaged attenuator and looking at an undamaged one and looking at if it had an effect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Highway Patrol reported Thursday that the crash attenuator had been damaged in a crash March 12. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans said in a statement late Wednesday afternoon that the agency is “reviewing the facts and circumstances of this incident and are cooperating with the National Transportation Safety Board’s ongoing investigation. Safety is our top priority and Caltrans will carefully evaluate the investigation’s findings and take appropriate action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Previous Damage Visible in Online Images\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A review of Google Streetview images over the last seven years shows the crash barrier was installed between May 2011 and December 2013. Images from 2014 through 2016 depict it intact, but it’s absent in pictures captured in January and February 2017, apparently after a crash at the site. The attenuator was back in place by late last fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla’s statement came after the National Transportation Safety Board announced it has dispatched two investigators to look into the post-crash fire and the steps that firefighters and Tesla technicians had to take to make the Model X safe to remove from the crash scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fires are a well-known hazard for conventional gasoline-fueled vehicles. But both manufacturers and emergency responders are facing unique fire hazards posed by battery-powered vehicles like the Model X involved in Friday’s crash. California has about 350,000 electric vehicles on the road — and hundreds of thousands of hybrids and plug-in hybrids that use similar battery technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The high-voltage batteries used by Tesla and other electric carmakers — actually a collection of modules containing hundreds of small lithium ion cells — are known to pose a fire risk if the battery compartment is breached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla and other manufacturers publish emergency guides for first responders with special instructions on how to deal with the risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the high voltage battery catches fire, is exposed to high heat, or is bent, twisted, cracked, or breached in any way, use large amounts of water to cool the battery,” Tesla’s \u003ca href=\"http://assets.teslastatic.com/2016_Model_X_Emergency_Response_Guide.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2016 emergency response guide\u003c/a> for the Model X warns. “DO NOT extinguish with a small amount of water. Always establish or request an additional water supply.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The guide adds that the batteries can burn for 24 hours and that responders should use thermal imaging equipment to ensure that a fire is actually out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Firefighters Turned to Tesla for Help\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mountain View Fire Chief Juan Diaz told reporters Friday that his firefighters had only a limited amount of water to try to douse the battery fire that broke out after the Model X crash. That led the Fire Department to seek outside expertise — from Tesla itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diaz told the \u003ca href=\"https://www.mv-voice.com/news/2018/03/26/driver-identified-in-fiery-tesla-crash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mountain View Voice\u003c/a> news site:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Diaz said the department was put in a difficult situation. Fire crews had 500 gallons of water at the scene, but getting any more would have required running 2,000 feet of thick fire hose across Highway 101, which would have been catastrophic for traffic in both directions, Diaz said. But letting the car continue to burn on a busy highway, destroying the battery, would have been a bad choice as well, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the middle of the Highway 101 freeway, that’s not something we want to do,” he said. “And it’s not good for the environment with the byproducts of combustion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire crews used the available supply of water and contacted the manufacturer of the vehicle, Palo Alto-based Tesla, to assist in getting the battery’s temperature under control. 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Huang was lived in Foster City and was married with two children. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CHP confirmed Thursday that Huang’s family has told investigators he had reported problems with his Model X’s Autopilot system at the same spot where he crashed Friday. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Report: Vehicle ‘Would Swivel Toward Barrier’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ABC7 on Wednesday night \u003ca href=\"http://abc7news.com/automotive/i-team-exclusive-victim-who-died-in-tesla-crash-had-complained-about-auto-pilot/3275600/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">quoted\u003c/a> Huang’s brother as saying Walter Huang had told family members of multiple occasions when the Model X “would swivel toward that same exact barrier during auto-pilot.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will Huang told ABC7 that his brother brought the car into a dealership to have the problem checked out, but technicians could not duplicate the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the report, Tesla said it had no records of a service visit specifically related to the car’s Autopilot system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company said in \u003ca href=\"https://www.tesla.com/blog/what-we-know-about-last-weeks-accident\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a statement\u003c/a> late Tuesday that because of severe damage to the SUV, it has been unable so far to recover data from the car’s onboard computer. The data could show whether the car’s semi-autonomous Autopilot system was engaged at the time of the crash, whether the vehicle’s brakes were applied before the collision and other information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla’s statement highlighted the role of a missing safety barrier — called a crash attenuator — at the crash site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crash occurred at a point where the left lane of southbound 101 exits onto a flyover ramp that carries traffic to southbound Highway 85. As traffic moves toward the ramp, it’s separated from the flow of southbound 101 by a concrete divider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google Streetview images show that since 2011, Caltrans has replaced a simple guardrail at the site and installed a crash attenuator — in this case, a steel framework designed to collapse upon impact to dissipate the energy of a crash — to reduce the danger to motorists who may hit the concrete wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11658421\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 458px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/crash1.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11658421\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/crash1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"458\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/crash1.png 458w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/crash1-160x84.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/crash1-240x126.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/crash1-375x197.png 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Google Streetview image from November 2017 shows a crash attenuator in place at an exit from southbound U.S. 101 to southbound Highway 85 in Mountain View. \u003ccite>(Google Streetview via Tesla)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11658420\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 459px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/crash2.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11658420\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/crash2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"459\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/crash2.png 459w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/crash2-160x83.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/crash2-240x124.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/crash2-375x194.png 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An image that Tesla says was taken March 22 and shows crash attenuator missing from site of fatal Model X incident the following day. Tesla says the severity of the crash was due to the absence of the safety barrier. \u003ccite>(Tesla )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tesla’s statement compares a Streetview image from November to a picture captured by a passing vehicle’s dashboard camera last Thursday and says the images prove the crash attenuator was not in place. The company makes a further claim, too: that the absence of the safety barrier was primarily responsible for the devastating damage the crash caused to the company’s vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reason this crash was so severe is that the crash attenuator, a highway safety barrier which is designed to reduce the impact into a concrete lane divider, had either been removed or crushed in a prior accident without being replaced,” Tesla said. “… We have never seen this level of damage to a Model X in any other crash.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Transportation Safety Board told the Washington Post the agency is “looking at the damaged attenuator and looking at an undamaged one and looking at if it had an effect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Highway Patrol reported Thursday that the crash attenuator had been damaged in a crash March 12. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans said in a statement late Wednesday afternoon that the agency is “reviewing the facts and circumstances of this incident and are cooperating with the National Transportation Safety Board’s ongoing investigation. Safety is our top priority and Caltrans will carefully evaluate the investigation’s findings and take appropriate action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Previous Damage Visible in Online Images\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A review of Google Streetview images over the last seven years shows the crash barrier was installed between May 2011 and December 2013. Images from 2014 through 2016 depict it intact, but it’s absent in pictures captured in January and February 2017, apparently after a crash at the site. The attenuator was back in place by late last fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla’s statement came after the National Transportation Safety Board announced it has dispatched two investigators to look into the post-crash fire and the steps that firefighters and Tesla technicians had to take to make the Model X safe to remove from the crash scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fires are a well-known hazard for conventional gasoline-fueled vehicles. 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His understanding of the subject is limited.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in 2016, Zuckerberg \u003ca href=\"https://www.recode.net/2017/7/25/16026184/mark-zuckerberg-artificial-intelligence-elon-musk-ai-argument-twitter\">noted \u003c/a>that one of Musk's SpaceX rockets\u003ca href=\"https://www.recode.net/2016/9/1/12749196/spacex-rocket-exploded-test-firing-cape-canaveral\"> blew up \u003c/a>on a launch pad and incinerated a Facebook satellite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm deeply disappointed to hear that SpaceX's launch failure destroyed our satellite that would have provided connectivity to so many entrepreneurs and everyone else across the continent,\" Zuckerberg posted to Facebook at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the statement appears mild, it was perceived as an escalation of their feud. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When onlookers to Friday's Twitter scuffle reminded Musk of the incident, he said, \"It was my fault for being an idiot.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/977236378105798656\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Musk's disdain for Facebook, however, does not extend to Instagram, where Musk has 6.9 million followers. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Musk's disdain for Facebook, however, does not extend to Instagram, where Musk has 6.9 million followers. Facebook \u003ca href=\"http://money.cnn.com/2014/02/19/technology/social/facebook-whatsapp/index.html\">bought \u003c/a>the photo- and video-sharing company in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Instagram's probably ok imo, so long as it stays fairly independent,\" he explained on Twitter. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with The New York Times Wednesday, Zuckerberg \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/21/technology/mark-zuckerberg-q-and-a.html\">responded \u003c/a>to questions about the #DeleteFacebook movement, saying it has not had a major impact so far. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't think we've seen a meaningful number of people act on that, but, you know, it's not good,\" he said. But he added, \"I think it's a clear signal that this is a major trust issue for people, and I understand that. And whether people delete their app over it or just don't feel good about using Facebook, that's a big issue that I think we have a responsibility to rectify.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In the waning hours of the legislative session, Democrats pushed through new labor \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB134\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">requirements\u003c/a> widely viewed as retaliation against \u003ca href=\"https://www.tesla.com/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tesla\u003c/a>, the electric car maker embroiled in a union-organizing campaign at its Fremont plant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Labor unions got lawmakers to insert two sentences into a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/cap-and-trade-in-two-and-half-minutes-video/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cap-and-trade\u003c/a> funding \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB134\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bill\u003c/a> requiring automakers to be certified “as fair and responsible in the the treatment of their workers” before their customers can obtain up to $2,500 from California’s clean vehicle rebate program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, Democrats openly wrestled with the concern that the United Automobile Workers, which is trying to maintain its role as the auto industry makes big bets on electric vehicles -- was expanding its unionization campaign from the factory floor to the Senate floor. Sen. Steve Glazer of Orinda said the state should not “hold our environmental projects hostage to a fight with one progressive employer.” Sen. Connie Leyva of Chino countered that California shouldn’t want companies to succeed at the expense of workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, with regulators starting to draft the new rules, a lingering question remains. How far will California -- the first state in the nation to approve $15 minimum wage and a state that has set an ambitious goal to put 1.5 million zero emissions vehicles on the road by 2025 -- go in order to graft its blue values onto the green sector?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In politics, your oldest friends are your best friends,” said Dan Schnur, former head of California’s campaign watchdog agency and now a professor at the University of Southern California. “The tech people may have come to Sacramento with a lot of money and with an agenda that dovetails with the governor and legislators’ policy priorities, but they’re still the new guys on the block. Labor’s been there for a long, long time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now state regulators -- at both the state Air Resources Board and the Labor & Workforce Development Agency -- will hold public hearings and draft rules for certifying automakers who want their vehicles to qualify for California rebates. The Legislature will then need to approve those.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the points of contention:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>What is “fair and responsible” to auto workers?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>How will the state weigh wage and benefit standards, or training and safety requirements, against manufacturing costs?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>How will the state certify vehicles made outside of California or even out of the country, such as in Mexico and China, where wages are lower and labor regulations are less stringent? Or will automakers self-police by adhering to a code of conduct?\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Dean Florez, a former Democratic state lawmaker and a member of the air board, said California can have both labor protections and environmental leadership as the state charts new territory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We shouldn’t be using public money to fund or support companies that do not meet basic worker protections,” Florez said. “We shouldn’t undercut the labor protections that we have fought for, for so many years. And I think that there is a danger in doing so; I think we would lose the confidence of the public for environmental leadership in the end.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s new requirement will apply to all automakers, but it couldn’t have come at a worse time for Tesla, a company that prides itself on innovation and disrupting the status quo. When plant workers went public with complaints about \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/@moran2017j/time-for-tesla-to-listen-ab5c6259fc88\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">low pay, long hours and unsafe conditions\u003c/a>, Tesla co-founder and CEO Elon Musk labeled labor’s tactics “\u003ca href=\"https://electrek.co/2017/02/24/tesla-union-elon-musk-addresses-employees/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">disingenuous or outright false\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While making $17 to $21 an hour is above minimum wage, Tesla employee Jose Moran noted that a living wage in the San Francisco Bay Area is a lot higher -- around $28. Musk responded that Tesla’s compensation package is higher than General Motors, Ford and Fiat when including Tesla’s employee stock program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company wouldn’t comment now, beyond referring back to what its policy director Sanjay Ranchod told lawmakers at a September hearing: “The company is committed to protecting the health and safety of its workers, and we are committed to continue and to make progress towards our goal of becoming the safest auto factory in the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the nation’s newest automaker, Tesla is also on track to be \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-02/evs-from-tesla-and-gm-may-start-losing-their-tax-credits\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the first\u003c/a> to max out on a federal tax credit of up to $7,500 per vehicle. And with its Model 3 sedans pitched as its affordable electric car at $35,000, Tesla will need California’s rebate more than ever to compete against other electric cars such as the Nissan Leaf or Chevrolet Bolt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Business boosters wonder why the state would single out clean-energy vehicles over gasoline cars for greater scrutiny when \u003ca href=\"https://www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/zevprog/zevprog.htm\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">40 percent\u003c/a> of the state’s greenhouse gases come from tailpipe emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They worry Sacramento’s pro-labor stance will dissuade companies from locating or expanding in California. Already, Tesla located its first battery factory just outside the state line in Sparks, Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Politicians say they want good-paying jobs, and to grow manufacturing and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, “and yet, we’re in the ironic place where Tesla is being attacked by some elected officials relative to whether or not their workers are unionized,” said Carl Guardino, head of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, a trade association representing nearly 400 Silicon Valley employers, including Tesla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is home to about 10,000 auto industry workers, virtually all from Tesla. That’s compared to 38,000 in Michigan, 24,000 in Kentucky and 20,000 in Ohio, according to the U.S. Labor Department’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/iag/tgs/iagauto.htm\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bureau of Labor Statistics\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union representatives say the goal is not to slow the production of clean energy vehicles. Rather, they maintain, if taxpayer money is being used to help sell cars, then it’s up to the state to make sure it results in good-paying jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is all part of our work at the labor movement to make sure there’s accountability for public investments,” said Angie Wei, an influential lobbyist for the California Labor Federation, the umbrella group for unions including the UAW. “If we’re going to put taxpayer money into it, then we’d sure better be getting something out of it for jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union also is trying to maintain its role as the auto industry makes big bets on electric vehicles. Just this year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/05/business/energy-environment/volvo-hybrid-electric-car.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Volvo\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2017/10/02/death-of-diesel-begins-as-gm-announces-plans-for-all-electric-future/?utm_term=.89c8dd93f339\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GM\u003c/a> announced plans to phase out conventional engines. The union can also use a win in labor-friendly California after losing an organizing effort at a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/05/business/nissan-united-auto-workers-union-mississippi.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nissan plant in Mississippi\u003c/a>, a right-to-work state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s worth noting the Nummi plant that Tesla took over in Fremont was represented by the union before the joint venture between GM and Toyota closed in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is about Tesla and it isn’t about Tesla,” Wei said. “We had a gas-and-combustion industry that for decades created good middle-class jobs. They’re now being replaced by electric vehicles. This is our new economy, and with major public investment. The question is are we going to allow the auto industry to create and maintain middle class jobs? Or are they going to become the next Walmartization of the economy?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento has placed itself at the forefront of cleaning up the environment. Gov. Jerry Brown and fellow Democratic lawmakers have \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/blog/leaving-europe-brown-says-hes-talked-enough-wants-get-something-done/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pitched California as a model to the world\u003c/a> for reducing air pollution and greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change in direct response to the Trump administration’s anti-regulatory philosophy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But California has also had a longstanding relationship with labor unions, stepping up the minimum wage and offering access to paid sick and family leave. In recent years, the California Labor Federation has successfully pushed legislation to protect immigrant workers from threats of deportation and expanded authority for the state to go after employers who skirt overtime or minimum-wage laws. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lobbying reports show Tesla spent $189,237 on lobbying in the 3-month cycle during which the bill was debated, compared to $103,351 for the labor federation. But labor’s might comes also from being able to mobilize its members on issues and during elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic lawmakers who struggled to prioritize the interests of two political allies will have more to soul-searching to do next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11638714\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/TESLA_Catura_004-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11638714\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/TESLA_Catura_004-400x600.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/TESLA_Catura_004-400x600-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/TESLA_Catura_004-400x600-240x360.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/TESLA_Catura_004-400x600-375x563.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Catura, 33, a battery pack line worker at Tesla. \u003ccite>(Penni Gladstone for CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Democratic Sen. Scott Weiner of San Francisco, who has a record of advancing the green economy and supporting prevailing wage to maintain union pay on public works projects, said he was unhappy that the so called “Tesla rule” had been inserted at the last minute. “This is significant and important enough that it should be vetted through a normal legislative process with public scrutiny. That to me is the best way to come to the right solution,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His fellow Democratic lawmaker and San Franciscan Phil Ting, who chairs the Assembly Budget Committee and authored the measure, insisted it strikes “a good middle ground.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We could have said you’re not going to get any money unless your workforce is unionized. That could have been something we inserted. We didn’t,” Ting said in an interview. “Having said that, we also could have done nothing. So if you look at the two extremes where we could done nothing or we could have dictated the type of workforce, I think this is the middle of those extremes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, the decision to unionize remains up to workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Catura, 33, a battery pack line worker who has been at Tesla for nearly four years, said he supports joining the union because it would mean a higher wage and seniority for him. As the son of a postal worker, Catura said he has been disappointed that he has been passed over for promotions because supervisors can play favorites. He said he started at $17 an hour and now makes $21 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Catura has one message for Elon Musk: “I would tell him, ‘Hey man, scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours. Give us more than just a bone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CALmatters.org is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now state regulators -- at both the state Air Resources Board and the Labor & Workforce Development Agency -- will hold public hearings and draft rules for certifying automakers who want their vehicles to qualify for California rebates. The Legislature will then need to approve those.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the points of contention:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>What is “fair and responsible” to auto workers?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>How will the state weigh wage and benefit standards, or training and safety requirements, against manufacturing costs?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>How will the state certify vehicles made outside of California or even out of the country, such as in Mexico and China, where wages are lower and labor regulations are less stringent? Or will automakers self-police by adhering to a code of conduct?\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Dean Florez, a former Democratic state lawmaker and a member of the air board, said California can have both labor protections and environmental leadership as the state charts new territory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We shouldn’t be using public money to fund or support companies that do not meet basic worker protections,” Florez said. “We shouldn’t undercut the labor protections that we have fought for, for so many years. And I think that there is a danger in doing so; I think we would lose the confidence of the public for environmental leadership in the end.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s new requirement will apply to all automakers, but it couldn’t have come at a worse time for Tesla, a company that prides itself on innovation and disrupting the status quo. When plant workers went public with complaints about \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/@moran2017j/time-for-tesla-to-listen-ab5c6259fc88\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">low pay, long hours and unsafe conditions\u003c/a>, Tesla co-founder and CEO Elon Musk labeled labor’s tactics “\u003ca href=\"https://electrek.co/2017/02/24/tesla-union-elon-musk-addresses-employees/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">disingenuous or outright false\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While making $17 to $21 an hour is above minimum wage, Tesla employee Jose Moran noted that a living wage in the San Francisco Bay Area is a lot higher -- around $28. Musk responded that Tesla’s compensation package is higher than General Motors, Ford and Fiat when including Tesla’s employee stock program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company wouldn’t comment now, beyond referring back to what its policy director Sanjay Ranchod told lawmakers at a September hearing: “The company is committed to protecting the health and safety of its workers, and we are committed to continue and to make progress towards our goal of becoming the safest auto factory in the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the nation’s newest automaker, Tesla is also on track to be \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-02/evs-from-tesla-and-gm-may-start-losing-their-tax-credits\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the first\u003c/a> to max out on a federal tax credit of up to $7,500 per vehicle. And with its Model 3 sedans pitched as its affordable electric car at $35,000, Tesla will need California’s rebate more than ever to compete against other electric cars such as the Nissan Leaf or Chevrolet Bolt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Business boosters wonder why the state would single out clean-energy vehicles over gasoline cars for greater scrutiny when \u003ca href=\"https://www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/zevprog/zevprog.htm\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">40 percent\u003c/a> of the state’s greenhouse gases come from tailpipe emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They worry Sacramento’s pro-labor stance will dissuade companies from locating or expanding in California. Already, Tesla located its first battery factory just outside the state line in Sparks, Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Politicians say they want good-paying jobs, and to grow manufacturing and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, “and yet, we’re in the ironic place where Tesla is being attacked by some elected officials relative to whether or not their workers are unionized,” said Carl Guardino, head of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, a trade association representing nearly 400 Silicon Valley employers, including Tesla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is home to about 10,000 auto industry workers, virtually all from Tesla. That’s compared to 38,000 in Michigan, 24,000 in Kentucky and 20,000 in Ohio, according to the U.S. Labor Department’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/iag/tgs/iagauto.htm\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bureau of Labor Statistics\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union representatives say the goal is not to slow the production of clean energy vehicles. Rather, they maintain, if taxpayer money is being used to help sell cars, then it’s up to the state to make sure it results in good-paying jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is all part of our work at the labor movement to make sure there’s accountability for public investments,” said Angie Wei, an influential lobbyist for the California Labor Federation, the umbrella group for unions including the UAW. “If we’re going to put taxpayer money into it, then we’d sure better be getting something out of it for jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union also is trying to maintain its role as the auto industry makes big bets on electric vehicles. Just this year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/05/business/energy-environment/volvo-hybrid-electric-car.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Volvo\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2017/10/02/death-of-diesel-begins-as-gm-announces-plans-for-all-electric-future/?utm_term=.89c8dd93f339\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GM\u003c/a> announced plans to phase out conventional engines. The union can also use a win in labor-friendly California after losing an organizing effort at a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/05/business/nissan-united-auto-workers-union-mississippi.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nissan plant in Mississippi\u003c/a>, a right-to-work state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s worth noting the Nummi plant that Tesla took over in Fremont was represented by the union before the joint venture between GM and Toyota closed in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is about Tesla and it isn’t about Tesla,” Wei said. “We had a gas-and-combustion industry that for decades created good middle-class jobs. They’re now being replaced by electric vehicles. This is our new economy, and with major public investment. The question is are we going to allow the auto industry to create and maintain middle class jobs? Or are they going to become the next Walmartization of the economy?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento has placed itself at the forefront of cleaning up the environment. Gov. Jerry Brown and fellow Democratic lawmakers have \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/blog/leaving-europe-brown-says-hes-talked-enough-wants-get-something-done/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pitched California as a model to the world\u003c/a> for reducing air pollution and greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change in direct response to the Trump administration’s anti-regulatory philosophy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But California has also had a longstanding relationship with labor unions, stepping up the minimum wage and offering access to paid sick and family leave. In recent years, the California Labor Federation has successfully pushed legislation to protect immigrant workers from threats of deportation and expanded authority for the state to go after employers who skirt overtime or minimum-wage laws. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lobbying reports show Tesla spent $189,237 on lobbying in the 3-month cycle during which the bill was debated, compared to $103,351 for the labor federation. But labor’s might comes also from being able to mobilize its members on issues and during elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic lawmakers who struggled to prioritize the interests of two political allies will have more to soul-searching to do next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11638714\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/TESLA_Catura_004-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11638714\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/TESLA_Catura_004-400x600.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/TESLA_Catura_004-400x600-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/TESLA_Catura_004-400x600-240x360.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/TESLA_Catura_004-400x600-375x563.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Catura, 33, a battery pack line worker at Tesla. \u003ccite>(Penni Gladstone for CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Democratic Sen. Scott Weiner of San Francisco, who has a record of advancing the green economy and supporting prevailing wage to maintain union pay on public works projects, said he was unhappy that the so called “Tesla rule” had been inserted at the last minute. “This is significant and important enough that it should be vetted through a normal legislative process with public scrutiny. That to me is the best way to come to the right solution,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His fellow Democratic lawmaker and San Franciscan Phil Ting, who chairs the Assembly Budget Committee and authored the measure, insisted it strikes “a good middle ground.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We could have said you’re not going to get any money unless your workforce is unionized. That could have been something we inserted. We didn’t,” Ting said in an interview. “Having said that, we also could have done nothing. So if you look at the two extremes where we could done nothing or we could have dictated the type of workforce, I think this is the middle of those extremes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, the decision to unionize remains up to workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Catura, 33, a battery pack line worker who has been at Tesla for nearly four years, said he supports joining the union because it would mean a higher wage and seniority for him. As the son of a postal worker, Catura said he has been disappointed that he has been passed over for promotions because supervisors can play favorites. He said he started at $17 an hour and now makes $21 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Catura has one message for Elon Musk: “I would tell him, ‘Hey man, scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours. Give us more than just a bone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A workhorse truck and a new supercar are in the works for Tesla, after founder and CEO Elon Musk introduced his company's latest effort to widen the U.S. market for electric vehicles Thursday night. Musk called the Roadster \"the fastest production car ever made, period.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Musk unveiled \u003ca href=\"https://www.tesla.com/roadster/\">the Roadster\u003c/a> toward the end of an event that was supposed to be all about Tesla's new \u003ca href=\"https://www.tesla.com/semi/\">Semi trucks\u003c/a>. Taking a page from Apple and other tech companies in using showmanship to wow crowds, Musk surprised the crowd by announcing there was one more thing to add — and the new car rolled out of the truck's trailer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After touting the utility and efficiency of what he called a game-changing truck, Musk welcomed the Roadster to cheers from those attending the event at the Hawthorne Municipal Airport near Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both vehicles are fast: The Roadster can take itself from zero to 60 mph in 1.9 seconds, and the Semi can perform the same feat in five seconds (unburdened by a trailer), Tesla says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Touting the sports car's speed, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Tesla/status/931409569640677376\">Tesla tweeted\u003c/a>, \"Going into plaid\" — a reference to a hyperspace joke from the movie \u003cem>Spaceballs\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/Tesla/status/931409569640677376\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From there, the specs diverge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The truck has a 500-mile range on one charge even if it's fully loaded at a gross vehicle weight of 80,000 pounds. It also comes with a million-mile guarantee on its powertrain. Musk said it will be able to maintain a speed of 65 mph while going up a 5 percent grade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By contrast, the Roadster will be able to run a quarter-mile in 8.9 seconds. Its top speed is \"above 250 mph,\" Musk said. The Roadster will have a range of 620 miles, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Roadster will be available in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"ZjveRLi8iGxeIVIYBmEHXgXLeNK4YYR8\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Production of the truck is expected to begin in 2019; Musk said customers who order now would get the vehicles in two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the morning after the unveiling, trucking and freight company J.B. Hunt announced that it had placed a reservation to buy \"multiple Tesla Semi tractors,\" adding that it plans to use them mainly on the West Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Reserving Tesla trucks marks an important step in our efforts to implement industry-changing technology,\" J.B. Hunt President and CEO John Roberts said in a news release. \"We believe electric trucks will be most beneficial on local and dray routes, and we look forward to utilizing this new, sustainable technology.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11631975\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11631975\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/tesla-semi-wide-6347b1a9092cad773a46d19e620e5c8f486d001e-800x600.jpg\" alt='Trucking and freight company J.B. 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Hunt has already announced that it had placed a reservation to buy \"multiple Tesla Semi tractors.\" \u003ccite>(Tesla)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tesla hasn't released a price for the Semi, but the Roadster will cost at least $200,000 depending on the options chosen, the company says. Reservations for both vehicles can be made with an initial deposit of $5,000 — but in the case of the Roadster, a total of at least $50,000 is due within 10 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his presentation, Musk said the cost of operating an electric tractor-trailer would be $1.26 per mile, compared with $1.51 per mile in a diesel truck. The figure assumes a diesel price of $2.50 a gallon versus 7 cents/kWh for electricity and a maximum load traveling at an average speed of 60 mph. The company says that will translate into thousands of dollars in savings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"H1l3KoaStg40cVHwGIZcYFnNkTY92L7S\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Electric motors have advantages for hauling: fewer moving parts, cheap fuel and zero tailpipe pollution,\" NPR's Emily Sullivan reports. \"But charging can be a challenge and Tesla big rigs will cost far more than diesel trucks.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In describing the truck, Musk also said its windshield is made of \"thermonuclear explosion-proof glass\" — a feature he says will help truckers stay on the road. Regulations require commercial trucks to be sidelined if their windshields are cracked in a way that could affect the driver's view.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also unique to the Semi is the driver's seating position. The chair and steering wheel are in the cab's center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11631976\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11631976\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/tesla-semi-in_wide-7ab1b3a437bf62e16d06a2d95a98063f4a92ec79-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"The driver's seat of the Tesla Semi is positioned in the center of the cab — which also provides standing room, the company says.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The driver's seat of the Tesla Semi is positioned in the center of the cab — which also provides standing room, the company says. \u003ccite>(Tesla)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although Thursday night's event celebrated Tesla's largest and smallest new offerings, the company is grappling with how to smooth problems that have hit its flagship Model 3.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family car was supposed to be Tesla's opening to a broad market, with a sticker price starting at $35,000 — but production snags have meant that instead of making thousands of Model 3s each month, Tesla \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/10/03/555417831/out-of-the-gate-tesla-stumbles-on-mass-market-car\">produced only 260 in September\u003c/a>. The anemic number fell far short of expectations; the company had received 140,000 advance orders for the car within hours of it being announced in the spring of 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those setbacks didn't do much to dampen the hype surrounding Thursday's unveiling — and it gained more energy as the Roadster, which from 2008 to 2012 was Tesla's star vehicle, returned to the lineup. In what has become something of a pattern in recent years, Musk has unveiled ambitious and even visionary new plans for Tesla, as the company copes with putting those ideas into effect — and cars on the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Andrew J. Hawkins wrote of the new Roadster and Semi for \u003ca href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/17/16669142/tesla-semi-roadster-2017-supercut-watch\">The Verge\u003c/a>, \"These are just concept vehicles, really, but it's Tesla, and nothing is really ever as it seems.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2017 NPR. 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