As Tesla works to ramp up one of the fastest expansions in the history of U.S. auto production, a labor-advocacy group says Elon Musk’s main assembly plant also has unusually high rates of worker injuries.
Tesla’s Fremont, California, plant had an injury rate that was 31 percent higher than the U.S. average for automakers in 2015 — the most recent year for which industrywide figures are available — with a total recordable incidence rate of 8.8 per 100 workers versus 6.7 per 100 for the industry, according to a report by Worksafe.
