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Interestingly, Tesla's approach is to hire ergonomics experts to help address the repetitive stress injuries (severe tendinitis and carpal tunnel). Compare tha
by kbutler 9y ago
Interestingly, Tesla's approach is to hire ergonomics experts to help address the repetitive stress injuries (severe tendinitis and carpal tunnel).
Compare that with the slaughterhouse industry:
"In recent years, the industry has bragged about dramatic reductions in worker injuries. What they’ve failed to report is that the OSHA injury form was recently re-written to omit the category of repetitive stress injuries – the most commonly reported injury in the industry."
http://www.foodispower.org/slaughterhouse-workers/ http://www.foodispower.org/slaughterhouse-workers/
So, Tesla is being compared on reported injury rates to slaughterhouses, whose standards have been re-written to exclude reporting the most common types of injuries, which just-so-happen to be the types Tesla is reporting?
(Note that the quote above comes from a pro-vegan site, so it isn't unbiased).
NPR similarly describes widespread under-reporting of injuries in the meat processing industry: http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/05/25/479509221/we-dont-know-how-many-workers-are-injured-at-slaughterhouses-heres-why http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/05/25/479509221/we-...
I'm inclined to give Tesla the benefit of the doubt here, though we should not minimize the effects of repetitive stress disorders.