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That's crazy. What happened, generally speaking? Was he hit by something, or more along the lines of a receptive stress injury?
by idoh 9y ago
That's crazy. What happened, generally speaking? Was he hit by something, or more along the lines of a receptive stress injury?
- vkou 9y agoWhich part of this story is crazy? That someone got injured working at an automotive plant, that they were strongly encouraged to do overtime, or that their employer declined to assume any liability?
- nerfhammer 9y agoDenying worker's comp for injury is so obviously illegal and such a brazen civil liability that it would be shocking that a company of Tesla's size would be able to simply refuse to deal with it. This person should be able to sue the pants off of Tesla. If they haven't gotten any compensation for their injuries maybe they haven't even filed a worker's comp claim, or they don't know that's a thing, or something.
- notyourday 9y agoI know a few worker comp attorneys in NY and CA. They say that in general worker comp claims that are being fought take 3-5 years to win. There's an entire sub-industry of attorneys specializing in fighting insurers/companies on worker comp cases.
- tedunangst 9y agoSpecialist engineer doing failure analysis doesn't sound like one of the more injury prone jobs. I mean, I don't know what happened, I just don't associate that job description with debilitating injuries, so it does sound a little crazy.
- idoh 9y agoYeah that's the angle I was taking. Doing failure analysis seems like it involves observation and thinking, hard to see how you get injured doing that unless it is a freak accident.
- chalkandpaste 9y agoI believe the issue was repeated stress causing tendons to tear in one leg and one arm. There have been reports that the machinery Tesla uses puts unnecessary strain on the body and the hours this man was working, I can easily see this happening.