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From the article you linked, a man had his fingertip severed when a shelf he was helping install was lowered too soon. I cut the tip of my finger off with a ch
by zaroth 7y ago
From the article you linked, a man had his fingertip severed when a shelf he was helping install was lowered too soon.
I cut the tip of my finger off with a chefs knife last year, luckily just took off about 1-2mm. The man in the story looks to have lost a bit more than that - but still has a fingernail on his right index finger. I’m not sure where the official line is drawn between cut and amputation when talking about fingertips. Once you’re cutting through fingernail though I would say it’s around there.
The fork lifts are automated. The wages are an average of 4x minimum wage, they hire at-risk college dropouts and train then to become techs while paying their tuition at community college, and they even housed a homeless employee at a local hotel while he worked there. All from the same article.
Property assessments are up 80% but TFA claims there’s no new tax revenue to cover the cost of services which a factory that large requires.
It’s a typical hit-job piece against an incredible factory which employs 7,000 in an extremely safe environment which is unfortunately not a utopia, but involves on average 1 emergency call per day for anything from fighting, DUI, chest pains, pregnancy related, and yes, occasionally workplace injury.
- dragontamer 7y ago> Several hours into his shift, Dillon was helping guide a rack into place so it could be bolted into the factory floor. The racks are so heavy it takes a team of four people to maneuver them. The issue is that these guys are moving very heavy shelves by hand, instead of using forklifts. I would assume that moving heavy equipment around is a pretty standard case in a car factory. It probably shouldn't be lifted by human muscle, which is prone to failure and coordination issues.