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KUKA robot arm pins and injures engineer at Tesla Gigafactory Texas

S2 · · KUKA · Austin, TX, USA

Record

CompanyKUKA
Categorymachinery oem
Typeinjury
Date
Time of daynot documented
LocationAustin, TX, USA · Tesla Gigafactory Texas
SeverityS2 (minor injury or single-unit damage)
Scale1 injury
Confidencehigh
VerificationCited source on file; not independently re-verified
SourceWashington Times

What happened

An engineer working on a bank of robot arms at Tesla's Giga Texas plant was pinned against a wall by a KUKA robot arm that had not been fully powered down, leaving him bleeding from the back and hand; a co-worker hit an e-stop to free him. Disclosed via Tesla's OSHA Form 300 injury log obtained by reporters in Dec 2023.

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