Tesla Robot Turns Out To Have Attacked Engineers At Texas Giga Car Assembly

Owning an area of 2,500 hectares along the Colorado River, the Texas Gigafactory is Tesla's manufacturing hub in the US for the Model Y and home to the Cybertruck. (Doc Tesla)

JAKARTA - An old incident that is not widely known is now back to light, a Tesla engineer has apparently been a victim of brutal and bloody robotic attacks at the company's Giga Texas factory near Austin.

Two witnesses witnessed with horror that their co-workers were attacked by robots designed to retrieve and remove parts of the newly minted aluminum.

The robot grabbed the man, who was currently programming software for two nearby disabled Tesla robots, before his metal claw pointed to the worker's back and arms.

The case was reported by the Daily Mail, December 26, where they got this information from Hannah Alexander, a Defense Project Workers lawyer representing a Texas Giga contract worker, who said Tesla had even failed to report the death of a construction worker.

"There were many workers who were injured and a worker who died, whose injuries or deaths were not listed in the report, Tesla should have completed and handed over accurately to the authorities for incentives," he explained.

The construction worker, a contractor named Antelmo Ramctionez, died of a hot stroke while helping build Tesla's more than 2,000-hectare Giga Texas plant, according to a report from a Travis County medical examiner.

Last year, Workers Defense Project filed a complaint on behalf of workers at the Texas Giga plant to the United States Administration of Work Safety and Health (OSHA), on charges that Tesla contractors and subcontractors provided fake safety certificates to some workers.

"Workers report that when they need training, they only send PDF files or certificate images via text messages or WhatsApp within a few days. It is impossible for workers to take part in the necessary training," Alexander said.

Alexander's accusations about this have been refuted by Tesla.

However, a report by the Reveal team from the Center for Investigative Reporting found that the company misclassified a number of accidents and injuries while working as a 'private medical case' to avoid state regulators.

California OSHA investigators, for example, found that Tesla removed 36 injuries in the government report needed in 2018 alone, confirming an earlier report by a Reveal team from the Center for Investigative Reporting that found the company misclassified a number of accidents and injuries while working as a 'private medical case' to circumvent California regulators.

Prior to the California OSHA findings, Tesla had stated that the Reveal claim was "completely fake" and accused the group of collaborating in secret with workers who were trying to form unions at Tesla's California automaker.

Back to the incident with the robot, the victim is said to have suffered an 'open wound' to his left hand, revealed in a 2021 injury report filed with Travis County authorities and federal regulators.

However, for the case of this robotic attack, there is also a copy of the 2021 Tesla Annual Compliance Report for Texas Giga, at least documenting bloody robotic attacks on software engineers, although the details are minimal.

While there have been no reports of any other injuries related to the robots reported by Tesla at the Texas plant in 2021 or 2022, these incidents have come amid growing concerns about the risk of automated robots in the workplace.