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Grinch said:
Good for him! Hope he loves his company to Texas
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Oh it won’t be a surprise if he moves to a state with less restrictive safety rules for employees, been a long-standing issue and he’s constantly tried to stop the workers unionizing. Quite why you think it a good thing for Musk to not care about health regulations is a different matter.
www.forbes.com

Inside Tesla’s Model 3 Factory, Where Safety Violations Keep Rising

As Tesla announces a more affordable model, its Fremont, California factory workforce had already felt heavy pressure to produce enough cars. And the strains showed: safety regulators have assessed more fines at the plant other large U.S. automotive plants, a Forbes review finds.
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It hasn’t worked out that way. Instead of being a wonder of 21st-century automation, the assembly lines that produce Tesla’s Model 3s and $79,000-and-up Model S sedans and X SUVs rely as heavily on human workers as ever. Now, as it hopes its newly announced $35,000 version of the Model 3 will boost demand, the factory is grappling with a more dubious claim to fame: It has been the target of more investigations into workplace safety and has incurred more fines than its rivals' main U.S. auto plants in the past half decade.

A review by Forbes found 24 investigations by California Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspectors from 2014 to 2018, resulting in fines for 54 violations. These include new penalties that haven't yet hit the national online OSHA database, and they nearly double Tesla's fines over the last five years, to $236,730. They include one of the automaker's biggest fines, assessed after a worker's glove was caught in a torque gun, severing a finger tip, according to the state safety regulator.

By comparison, Nissan’s plant in Smyrna, Tennessee, which employs about 8,000 workers, was the subject of eight investigations and received just five violations in the same time period. And Toyota’s plant in Georgetown, Kentucky, which also employs about 8,000 workers, was the subject of 13 investigations, resulting in four violations. In California, anyone can call in a probe over safety; many don’t result in fines, but some produce multiple citations. Tesla has contested most of the Cal/OSHA fines with California regulators.
 
Would love to travel the rural parts of the US - find those old school diners and flirt with the waitress before tucking in to a kin massive piece of meat on my plate.
 
Just a spolier alert for you guys about the next round of American stupidity on the horizon if/when a Coronavirus vaccine becomes available.... “You can’t force me to be vaccinated for this!” Reading a local board here and over half the people say they will not, under any circumstances, be receive the vaccine. Will be interesting to see if they change their tune when their employer tells them to either get vaccinated or find a new job.
 
zzr45 said:

Missouri might be about to go backwards on helmet laws

State legislators in in the US state of Missouri could be about to allow adult riders to feel the wind in their hair once more
www.visordown.com www.visordown.com

Darwinism in action.
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My sister lives in South Carolina, and they don't have any laws requiring you wear a helmet on a motorcycle, but from seeing people out riding you would think that the law actually says you CAN'T wear a helmet. I literally can't recall ever seeing anyone wearing one when I've been down there.
 
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