Experiences: Tesla manufacturing facility the place employee died had security weak point

SHANGHAI — Authorities inspectors concluded Tesla Inc.’s Shanghai manufacturing facility the place an worker died in a Feb. 4 accident has weaknesses in its security measures, information experiences mentioned Wednesday.

The emergency bureau of Shanghai’s Pudong district advisable an unspecified penalty for Tesla, the enterprise information journal Caixin and different retailers reported. They cited a replica of the report posted on town authorities web site.

The report was faraway from the web site Wednesday. An worker of the emergency company who would give solely his surname, Wu, mentioned Tesla requested for the report to not be made public as a result of it contained pictures of its manufacturing course of.

The investigation concluded the Tesla worker who died did not comply with guidelines and didn’t lock a security gate, in response to the information experiences. They mentioned one other worker failed to verify the world was clear of individuals earlier than turning on gear that crushed the 31-year-old worker, who died later at a hospital.

Posts that circulated Monday on Chinese language social media and presupposed to be from Tesla staff complained their bonuses have been lower because of the fatality. They appealed to CEO Elon Musk.

Musk mentioned on Twitter on Monday, “Was alerted this weekend. Wanting into it.”

Tesla didn’t reply Wednesday to requests by electronic mail for remark.