Report finds worker injuries are “routine” at Tesla’s Nevada plant
A new report from USA Today on Tesla’s “gargantuan” four-year-old battery factory in Nevada finds that worker injuries at the Gigafactory occur “on a routine basis: at least three a month.” OSHA inspectors were on-site more than 90 times in the facility’s first three years of operation.
The report goes deep inside the facility, which employs approximately 7,000 workers and is a half-mile long by a quarter-mile wide – dimensions that make it difficult for first responders to find and reach incident victims when summoned by calls to 911. Those calls occur, on average, more than once a day.