Tesla CEO Elon Musk is launching an investigation into Tesla's Fremont plant after a factory worker complained of poor conditions, Gizmodo reported Tuesday.
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Elon Musk is reportedly investigating Tesla's Fremont plant after workers complained of conditions (TSLA)
A Tesla factory worker said the equipment routinely causes on-site injuries.
Musk said the investigation was already in the works and that the results will be published at the end of the week. Tesla declined to comment further.
Tesla came under fire when Jose Moran, a Fremont factory worker, published a post stating that employees were pushing to unionize because of poor conditions. Moran said workers are frequently injured because the factory equipment isn't suited to their bodies. He also said workers routinely face "excessive mandatory overtime."
Musk called the allegations at the time "morally outrageous" and claimed Moran was hired by the United Auto Workers (UAW) to agitate for a union. The UAW denied that claim, stating that Moran and other Tesla employees have reached out about forming a union.
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Musk acknowledged that there is mandatory overtime to make up for production stoppages, but that the frequency of it is dropping every week.
Musk has been forthcoming about production challenges at the Fremont plant. He said Tesla was in "production hell" during the company's second-quarter earnings call in 2016. Musk slept in the Fremont factory to inspect vehicles as they came off the line at the time.
"Fremont production management was in poor shape and not able to scale about a year ago. I think we’ve made a lot of progress since then," Musk told Gizmodo.
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