Tesla Robot Attacks An Engineer During Violent Malfunction

A robot attacked a Tesla engineer at the Giga Texas factory near Austin when there was an issue.

According to reports, two other workers saw the horrific incident as their coworker was attacked by the device meant to pick up and transfer newly cast aluminium automobile parts.

As per Mail Online, the worker was programming software for two disabled Tesla robots when the robot trapped him. It then sank its metal claws into his arm and back, leaving a ‘trail of blood’ on the factory floor.

An ‘open wound’ on the victim’s left hand was the result of the event, which was documented in a 2021 injury report submitted to federal regulators and Travis County, which DailyMail has examined.

The event occurs in the midst of years when worries about the dangers of automated robots in the workplace have grown.

Some have questioned the integration of new technology in light of reports of increased injuries from robotic coworkers at Amazon shipment centres, deadly droid surgeons, self-driving automobiles, and even aggression from robotic chess tutors.

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According to the injury report, which Tesla is required by law to provide to authorities in order to keep its generous tax breaks in Texas, the engineer did not need time off from work.

However, based on her meetings with workers at the factory, one lawyer representing Tesla’s contract workers in Giga Texas told DailyMail.com that she thinks the amount of injuries sustained there is underreported.

The lawyer claimed that this underreporting went so far as to cover a construction worker’s death on September 28, 2021, who had been hired to assist in building the plant.

“My advice would be to read that report with a grain of salt,” the attorney, Hannah Alexander of the nonprofit Workers Defense Project, told DailyMail.

“We’ve had multiple workers who were injured,’ Alexander said, ‘and one worker who died, whose injuries or death are not in these reports that Tesla is supposed to be accurately completing and submitting to the county in order to get tax incentives.”

According to a Travis County medical examiner’s report, the construction worker, Antelmo Ramírez, died from heat stroke while working on Tesla’s nearly 2,000-acre Giga Texas facility.

The US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) received a complaint from the Workers Defence Project last year on behalf of Giga Texas workers, who claimed that fake safety certificates were provided to some hires by Tesla’s contractors and subcontractors.

“Workers report that when they needed training, they were simply sent PDF files or images of certificates through text or WhatsApp in a matter of days,’ Alexander told local NBC affiliate KXAN. ‘There’s no conceivable way workers could have even taken the training required.”