A malfunctioning robot has attacked a Tesla software engineer, who suffered serious injuries on the floor of the electric car maker’s factory in Austin, Texas.
Witnesses told the Information, a news site that the robot pinned the engineer and sank its metal claws into his back and arm. Tesla engineers design the robot to move aluminium car parts.
The attack leaved a trail of his blood along the floor.
The engineer was programming software that controls robots. The job of the robots is to cut car parts from freshly cast pieces of aluminium.
He had disabled two of the robots so that he and his crew could work on the machines. He, however, inadvertently left the third one on.
This resulted in the attack two years ago, witnesses said.
The news site said it obtained an injury report submitted to federal officials and to health authorities in Travis County.
The injury was apparently not severe enough to require the employee to take time off from work.
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Tesla declined to comment.
Injury reports submitted to the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration alleged that nearly one out of every 21 workers at the Giga Texas factory got hurt last year.
In the automotive industry, the median injury rate last year was one in every 30 workers.
Several current and former Tesla workers at the factory narrated that the company regularly cut corners on construction, maintenance and operations in a manner that placed them at risk.
Sources said the management’s demands for speedy production have led to safety lapses.
Witnesses reported that heavy machinery including a crane, a steel beam and an air conditioning duct have fallen near workers on car production lines.
Records showed that workers at the factory fell ill after they were exposed to toxins such as ammonia. (New York Post)
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