Exclusive: Tesla Motors faces $89,000 in fines for incident that injured workers at Fremont facility

[hedgehog]

13. The gist of the replies tracks with what I had to say above -

although I left out the option that the people involved just may not have known what they were doing.

It's easy to design for what goes right, it's hard to anticipate all the ways things can go wrong. That's what experience teaches. Often, the information is in people's heads and is handed down by word of mouth. Having only young engineers on board is a recipe for problems. It's not all about engineers, either. Most companies have safety people whose job is to vet equipment for hazards and to train people.

If Tesla had had the proper safety people on board or simply have hired an outside consultant with the right expertise, the press would never have been in operation with missing interlocks, there would have been rigorous training and the workers would have been wearing proper gear for molten metal.

I'm surprised that whoever sold Tesla the press didn't raise a big stink about having proper procedures.