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

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15. Lots More OSHA Violations Where That Came From

When NUMMI was open, we could report safety problems and safety reps from the union as well as the company would come out and fix the problem. We start the process by filling out paperwork. Managers would try and discourage us from reporting anything, but they couldn't retaliate because there was a paper trail. If they tried to fire a worker, paperwork as well as work rules from our collective bargaining agreement would get the manager in trouble instead.

At Tesla, workers have no contract and if they do raise a safety issue, they will simply be fired ASAP. One former NUMMI worker that got in only lasted a couple months before he got fired for simply asking about rotating jobs. If you stay on one job for too long, it will cause a repetitive strain injury, so we always rotated. Another ex-Tesla Production Supervisor reported via Facebook that they routinely violate safety rules like dumping toxic waste into the drain and workers are expected to shut up and go along with it. There are lots of OSHA violations that are unreported.

2011 explosion in Tesla factory seen from the highway 880:
http://forums.mtbr.com/california-norcal/smokes-coming-out-tesla-757766.html