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Tesla worker injured [in 2021] by robot that 'pinned' him to wall with its claws at car company's Texas factory (news.sky.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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given the scrutiny around Tesla, it's interesting this story doesn't seem to have come out sooner since this is a fairly novel workplace accident

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 10 months ago (19 children)

Important context autotldr missed:

The incident happened when the engineer was programming the software that controls the robots, which cut car parts from aluminium, The Information reported.

Two of the robots were disabled, but a third was inadvertently left on. As it went through its normal motions, it caught the worker in its claws.

Yikes, that should be checked multiple times before someone gets close to the clawed aluminum cutting robot. Failure of process, I suspect.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

Considering the subject matter, perhaps the auto-TLDR bot has a conflict of interest!

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