Posted on 01/21/2022 1:13:15 AM PST by nickcarraway
A production associate working on a powertrain line at Tesla in Fremont collapsed and died early Wednesday morning.
Now the state agency that oversees workplace safety is investigating into what happened.
Cal-Occupational Safety and Health Administration spokesman Peter Melton said that the car manufacturer notified his agency about the death and state investigators are in the process of gathering more information to determine the work-relatedness of this event and whether to conduct an inspection.
A powertrain is an improved motor, inverter and gearbox, according to Tesla's website.
The identification of the employee was not given.
About 6:30 a.m., at least three Fremont police cars and one fire truck were seen in front of the Tesla plant.
This death comes about a month after Anthony Solima, 29, a Tesla employee allegedly waited for his coworker to get off work, before fatally shooting him in the head in the factory's parking lot, prosecutors said.
Solima was charged with murder and the special circumstance if lying in wait, as well as possession of an assault weapon.
Solima and the victim, identified as Lee Brasier, 42, had gotten into an argument at work earlier that week and Solima abruptly walked off the job, authorities said.
Prosecutors said Solima came back to the Tesla facility and waited in the parking lot with a .223-caliber short-barreled AR-15 and shot Brasier in the head just after he finished his shift. His keys were still in the door of his Toyota Tundra, authorities said.
Brasier sustained at least one gunshot wound and was pronounced dead at the scene.
Fully vaxed and boostered?
Note that they give the caliber abd description of the gun used in a homicide, but don’t mention the vaxx status of the recently- deceased. I mean, whether he was exposed to secondhand smoke.
In fairness, they don’t have access to the info, do they?
What color was the Tundra?
Sounds like the story on the production line death was just an excuse to bring up the evil black gun shooting in the parking lot.
You know because if those guns were banned available the guy would still be alive. 👌
“Climate change” - 0, “Green cars” - 1
Rare
work-relatedness?? The first clue for anyone striving to be a star journalist that exposes evil corporations is to complete fourth grade English.
The working conditions that Musk imposes are notoriously bad
shocking story...
died suddenly
Having worked at facilities with thousands of employees I can say that stuff is happening all the time. It usually has nothing to do with the employer. Actuarial tables will tell you that out of any mixed employee group some are unknowingly reaching end of life. Some are killed in robberies. Some get involved in drugs with all the eventualities that implies. If you have 1,000 people some will die in any given year. Some will experience medical issues. Some will get arrested. One might win the lottery. None of this has anything to do with the employer.
They really had to work hard to make this a clickable read, even bringing in an unrelated case.
Tesla cars suck. Poorly built pieces of plastic.
That’s news to me. All the video I’ve seen shows a clean environment, pretty safe looking. What am I missing? Robots working too fast for their human counterparts to get out of the way?
Rise of the machines !
Propaganda film to make you think so
Worst startup working conditions ever
The powertrain worker probably died of a (delayed) ricochet.
Could he have drowned in gasoline from one of the cars ?
or did he share in the 300 volts dc from one of the cars ?
Spoken like a true UAW member. If one guy dies and it makes the news but only sort of to include some other derogatory news you really have to wonder what the motive is AND could the environment really be that bad? We don’t even know what the guy died from. Stroke, Heart attack, choked on his ham sandwich, tripped, fell backwards and struck his head on the concrete. I’ll withhold my opinion until I hear more facts.
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