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"The scores don’t account for severity, however. The injuries at Tesla appear to be related to long hours and ergonomic design." Not to say that any harm to yo

"The scores don’t account for severity, however. The injuries at Tesla appear to be related to long hours and ergonomic design." Not to say that any harm to your health should be avoided, but by auto industry standards (other than Tesla) to this day serious incidents involve losing limbs or death. I know they're pushing everyone at Tesla as the company is still losing a lot amount of money, but it's not clear that anyone being pushed is taking really serious risks -- at other auto companies, they are and the result is literally loss of limb and life. Moreover their loss is for "greedy capitalists" as the workers earn very little, have incentives to take risks, are not trained appropriately, and traditional car companies are quite profitable unlike Tesla. The photos in the recent Businessweek coverage of auto industry safety of people missing limbs are horrible (Tesla was not mentioned therein btw). https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-03-23/inside-alabama-s-auto-jobs-boom-cheap-wages-little-training-crushed-limbs https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-03-23/inside-al...

arjie 9y ago
In _Understanding Human Error_, Sidney Dekker points to a study done at the time (many decades ago) that within an industry, the guys with the most frequent small accidents had the least frequent big accidents. Of course at the time, it was not fully known that covering up small incidents would mean you almost inevitably faced a catastrophe. Just an interesting thing.
stupidhn 9y ago
>at other auto companies, they are and the result is literally loss of limb and life. Comparing the safety history of a company that has produced fewer than 200,000 vehicles ever to companies that produce many multiples of that, annually, and have been in operation for over a hundred years is ridiculous. Man, if you can brand yourself a "tech company" the Silicon Valley technorati will apologize for anything.

arjie 9y ago

In _Understanding Human Error_, Sidney Dekker points to a study done at the time (many decades ago) that within an industry, the guys with the most frequent small accidents had the least frequent big accidents. Of course at the time, it was not fully known that covering up small incidents would mean you almost inevitably faced a catastrophe. Just an interesting thing.

stupidhn 9y ago

>at other auto companies, they are and the result is literally loss of limb and life. Comparing the safety history of a company that has produced fewer than 200,000 vehicles ever to companies that produce many multiples of that, annually, and have been in operation for over a hundred years is ridiculous. Man, if you can brand yourself a "tech company" the Silicon Valley technorati will apologize for anything.