3 hurt in Tesla factory hot metal spill in Calif.

[Zorro]

Source: AP

Three Tesla Motors employees were injured Wednesday after an aluminum casting press failed at its San Francisco Bay Area factory, officials said.

One employee was seriously hurt and two other sustained minor injuries when the low-pressure press spilled hot metal shortly before noon, said Greg Siggins, a spokesman for the California Occupational Safety and Health Adminstration.

"Hot metal somehow burned the workers," said Siggins, who added that there was no fire inside the plant.

The most seriously injured Telsa worker received chest and upper-body burns, Cal-OSHA spokesman Peter Melton said. The three workers were taken to Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose with second-degree burns, Siggins said.

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[Half-Century Man]

1. Low pressure molten aluminum injection casting machines are dangerous.

Any water in the path of the molten metal flashes to 800X it's volume in steam and explosively overloads the clamping cylinders. Horribly burned an injection mold operator at Alcoa Wheel Products Beloit about 12 years ago. He survived, just barely.

[Posteritatis]

5. Aieee. (nt)

[Half-Century Man]

6. I know he spent more than a year in the hospital.

Lost track of him years ago.

[Jesus Malverde]

2. Likely a daily occurrence in China to other American corporations

We would never hear about it.

[Champion Jack]

3. bingo

[pothos]

4. good point. eom.