Tesla fines for “serious” heat disorder in the California plant – Yahoo Singapore News

Tesla is fined for violation of the rules for the heat protection of the workplace in California at its Fremont plant.

Although the $ 13,500 punishment is a meal for the electric car manufacturer that boasts market capitalization over $ 1 trillion, state regulators categorized the company’s violation as “serious”, which means that this could lead to injury, illness or death.

The findings stem from Tesla’s inability to provide outdoor employees with adequate interruptions of cooling in oversized areas, according to a quotation issued by the California Division for Safety and Labor Health, known as CAL/OSHA, in December.

Tesla did not immediately answer a request for comment.

Cal/Osha did not provide specifics of the conditions that workers tested at the Fremont plant.

The quotation refers to a section of the California heating safety rules that require the imposition of employees and encourage to take cooling, rests in the shade when they need to do so to prevent overheating. Any employee who takes this type of preventive rest should be monitored for symptoms of a thermal disease by a manager and should not be requested to return to work until the symptoms are subsided.

Tesla co -founder and CEO Elon Musk has had hostile relations with the state in recent years, accusing California of “over -regulation, over -platform, overload.” And the new regulatory control comes at a time when Musk leads aggressive efforts to scales or completely disassemble parts of the federal government on behalf of the Trump administration.

The car manufacturer has previously dealt with the workplace safety regulators in California under the Fremont plant.

An investigation by the 2018 Investigation Center found that Tesla had not reported serious workplace injuries, distorting the company’s statistics for injury. Tesla disproves findings, but Cal/Osha cites the company next year for the missed hundreds of injuries listed in the Diaries at its factory by annual summary data, which the company sends every year to government regulators.

Tesla also builds an outdoor structure outside its main Fremont vehicle facilities in an attempt to accelerate the assembly and manufacture of its Model 3 sedan, but in 2019 it was hit with fines of CAL/OSHA for safety disorders, including failure to fail received AA permission to build an outdoor facility, failure to comply with workers from open metal rods and fittings, which is the risks and failure of training properly employees to prevent thermal diseases.

In 2020, during the pandemic blocking of the Covid-19, Musk restarted production at the plant as opposed to an order for a stay in the home, although the company eventually reached an agreement with the Alamed County to resume operations. Hundreds of infections have been reported after re -opening.

And CAL/OSHA in 2023. He clapped Tesla with four safety disorders after an employee at the Fremont plant was seriously injured when struck in Model Y. Tesla, which is claimed to have caused the worker to be trapped In the car.

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This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.