05-25-2017, 10:43 AM
Found this nice little follow up article. Not saying those long hours are causation, but definitely some correlation.
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/serious-injuries-tesla-plant-double-industry-average-report-012917246.html
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/serious-injuries-tesla-plant-double-industry-average-report-012917246.html
Quote:Total injuries at the plant are a third higher than the industry average, the report said.
The United Auto Workers (UAW), the industry's largest union in the United States, commissioned the report.
It uses data from 2015, the last year for which industry-wide comparative figures are available.
The rate of serious injuries -- those involving job transfers or missed days -- was 7.9 per 100 workers, compared to the industry average of 3.9, Worksafe wrote.
The data -- which compared injury rates among auto assembly workers, not suppliers -- also found a recordable total incidence rate of 8.8 injuries per 100 workers, compared to 6.7 for the industry as a whole.
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