During the struggle, a fellow worker managed to hit the emergency stop button, freeing the engineer from the robot’s grasp. However, in the process, the engineer fell a few feet down a scrap aluminium chute.
The attack occurred in 2021 and was revealed in an injury report report filed to Travis county and federal regulators. DailyMail.com claims to have reviewed the report.
It is worth noting that no incidents involving robot-related injuries were reported by Tesla at the Texas factory in 2021 or 2022. The incident raises concerns about the potential risks associated with automated robots in the workplace.
In a separate incident earlier this year, an industrial robot caused a tragic fatality at a vegetable packaging plant in South Korea. Police officials reported that a worker died from head and chest injuries after being grabbed and pressed against a conveyor belt by the robot’s arms. The deceased employee was from a company that installs industrial robots and was sent to the plant to inspect the machine’s functionality. The plant used two pick-and-place robots to package bell peppers and other vegetables for export to Asian countries.
