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Angeles, the anti-Gascón campaign needs to gather more than 560,000 signatures by July 6 to get its recall measure on the ballot — \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-09-15/first-effort-to-recall-los-angeles-district-attorney-george-gascon-fizzles-out-but-a-retry-is-coming\">a threshold it failed to reach\u003c/a> in a similar push last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want George Gascón to be replaced as district attorney because he is functionally, with his policies, endangering the public,” said Steve Cooley, a former DA in the county, who has emerged as one of the key leaders in \u003ca href=\"https://www.recalldageorgegascon.com/\">the current recall effort\u003c/a>. “He does that through his many, many directives that basically show great empathy and sympathy for criminals, especially violent and serious criminals, murderers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11909716\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Cooley-scaled-e1648594303373.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11909716\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Cooley-scaled-e1648594303373.jpg\" alt=\"An older man with a beard sitting at a desk.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former LA County District Attorney Steve Cooley, one of the leaders of the campaign to recall Gascón, at his office on Feb. 17, 2022. Cooley portrays Gascón's criminal justice reforms as a menace to the residents of the county. \u003ccite>(Saul Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To turn public opinion against Gascón, recall backers are highlighting recent violent crime statistics, like LA’s 397 homicides in 2021, a 15-year high. Some of those incidents received an enormous amount of media coverage, like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-12-01/wife-of-music-executive-clarence-avant-fatally-shot-at-trousdale-estates-home\">December slaying of prominent philanthropist Jacqueline Avant\u003c/a> — the wife of legendary music producer Clarence Avant — during a robbery attempt at her Beverly Hills home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Gascón’s defenders argue that recall supporters, like Cooley, are bent on portraying him as a soft-on-crime stereotype, a characterization they call wholly disingenuous given his deep law enforcement experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“DA Gascón spent 30 years as a police officer, 30 years in LAPD. He has dedicated his entire life to making the communities safe,” said Cristine Soto DeBerry, executive director of the Prosecutors Alliance of California, a group that supports progressive DAs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeBerry believes the campaign to unseat Gascón is part of a wider effort among conservative law enforcement groups and donors to stop long-overdue criminal justice system reforms that are being championed by a new generation of prosecutors, like Gascón and Boudin.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"forum_2010101887969,news_11906253,news_11908825\"]“Well, I think there's vested interests, right? A big majority of the funds coming into these campaigns are from police associations, police lobbying money,” DeBerry said. “And they have an approach that's both based in their political beliefs, but also the benefit of having a large police force, a large jail system, a large probation system. All of those things create jobs for [their] members and continue their political power in the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Gascón’s critics say recent reform initiatives, like his vow not to pursue the death penalty in the most egregious cases, and his move to ban prosecutors from seeking enhanced sentences for defendants, undermine the deterrence effect of LA’s harder-line crime policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón’s reforms also have created significant opposition within his own office. In February, the Association of Deputy District Attorneys for Los Angeles, which represents about 700 rank-and-file prosecutors, \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/22/los-angeles-prosecutors-progressive-da-gascon-00010798\">voted 98% in support\u003c/a> of Gascón’s recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as the effort to replace him heats up, Gascón appears to be retreating from some past positions. He recently said he was open to \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/criminal-justice/la-da-gascon-issues-statement-explaining-why-hes-changing-course-on-juvenile-policy-reversal\">trying as adults some juveniles\u003c/a> who are accused of especially heinous crimes, and to seek life sentences without the possibility of parole for some adult defendants — both practices he previously vowed to ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to recall strategies, Cooley contends that unlike last year’s failed campaign against Gascón — one he says was run by “amateurs” — the effort this time around is better organized and funded, with a war chest of some $3.5 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current campaign, Cooley adds, also benefits from growing public anxiety about safety, an issue he predicts will generate voter support from more suburban and affluent areas of LA County that traditionally haven’t worried as much about crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think you're going to need, across the board, individuals that feel this is directly affecting me and I fear for my children, my family, my neighborhood, my community and, to a certain extent, my county,” Cooley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, \u003ca href=\"https://www.standwithgascon.org/\">Gascón and his allies\u003c/a> are fighting back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a press conference in December to mark his first year in office, more than a dozen progressive district attorneys from across the country praised Gascón’s reform efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11909717\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Gascon-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11909717\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Gascon-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a suit stands at a lectern, with multiple men and women behind him.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Gascon-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Gascon-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Gascon-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Gascon-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Gascon-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Gascon-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Gascon-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">LA DA George Gascón at a press conference on Dec. 8, 2021, marking his one-year anniversary on the job. Behind him are multiple progressive prosecutors from around the country, who support his criminal justice reform efforts. \u003ccite>(Saul Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I am proud to stand alongside District Attorney Gascón, who is implementing smart, evidence-based policies that will deliver safer, healthier communities in Los Angeles,” said Parisa Dehghani-Tafti, the Commonwealth’s Attorney for Arlington County, Virginia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón also used the moment to push back against critics, accusing them of political opportunism and undermining efforts to meaningfully improve public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rather than turning every tragedy into a political football and blame game, I ask that those people join us,” Gascón said. “We can do better and go further if we all work together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even some of Gascón’s allies argue he has often been flat-footed in effectively explaining his ambitious reforms to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those that are against reforms are taking the narrative and steering it the way they want,” said Sam Lewis, the executive director of LA’s Anti-Recidivism Coalition, which fights to end mass incarceration in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Formerly incarcerated and having benefited from rehabilitation programs, Lewis says Gascón needs to find people who can talk in very personal terms about the toll the criminal justice system has had on poor people of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would suggest using surrogates like myself, people who have gone through our criminal justice system and have righted their moral compass, in many instances not because of the system but despite the system,” he said. “And you didn’t have to keep them in prison for 300 years.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Much like in the campaign to unseat progressive San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin, opponents of Gascón argue his criminal justice reforms have 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attorney and police chief George Gascón was sworn in as Los Angeles County DA in December 2020, \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/george-gasca%C2%B3n-sworn-in-da-extensive-ambitious-reforms\">he promised to fix\u003c/a> what he called a broken criminal justice system, one he said often victimized poor Black and Latino defendants without improving public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“LA is the poster child for the failed tough-on-crime approach,” he said at the time. “The status quo hasn’t made us safer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon after taking office, Gascón proposed a sweeping package of criminal justice reforms that emphasized rehabilitation over punishment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But following \u003ca href=\"https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/new-crime-stats-revealed-homicides-in-los-angeles-soared-in-2021/\">last year’s spike in homicides\u003c/a>, and amid ongoing concerns about rising rates of violent crime in the region, a campaign to recall Gascón from office is now gathering steam, with a growing number of local officials calling for his ouster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s an effort that closely mirrors \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11908825/a-blame-game-criminal-justice-experts-debate-effort-to-recall-sf-da-chesa-boudin\">the drive to unseat DA Chesa Boudin\u003c/a>, Gascón’s progressive successor in San Francisco — a recall measure that goes before that city’s voters in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, the anti-Gascón campaign needs to gather more than 560,000 signatures by July 6 to get its recall measure on the ballot — \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-09-15/first-effort-to-recall-los-angeles-district-attorney-george-gascon-fizzles-out-but-a-retry-is-coming\">a threshold it failed to reach\u003c/a> in a similar push last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want George Gascón to be replaced as district attorney because he is functionally, with his policies, endangering the public,” said Steve Cooley, a former DA in the county, who has emerged as one of the key leaders in \u003ca href=\"https://www.recalldageorgegascon.com/\">the current recall effort\u003c/a>. “He does that through his many, many directives that basically show great empathy and sympathy for criminals, especially violent and serious criminals, murderers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11909716\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Cooley-scaled-e1648594303373.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11909716\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Cooley-scaled-e1648594303373.jpg\" alt=\"An older man with a beard sitting at a desk.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former LA County District Attorney Steve Cooley, one of the leaders of the campaign to recall Gascón, at his office on Feb. 17, 2022. Cooley portrays Gascón's criminal justice reforms as a menace to the residents of the county. \u003ccite>(Saul Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To turn public opinion against Gascón, recall backers are highlighting recent violent crime statistics, like LA’s 397 homicides in 2021, a 15-year high. Some of those incidents received an enormous amount of media coverage, like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-12-01/wife-of-music-executive-clarence-avant-fatally-shot-at-trousdale-estates-home\">December slaying of prominent philanthropist Jacqueline Avant\u003c/a> — the wife of legendary music producer Clarence Avant — during a robbery attempt at her Beverly Hills home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Gascón’s defenders argue that recall supporters, like Cooley, are bent on portraying him as a soft-on-crime stereotype, a characterization they call wholly disingenuous given his deep law enforcement experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“DA Gascón spent 30 years as a police officer, 30 years in LAPD. He has dedicated his entire life to making the communities safe,” said Cristine Soto DeBerry, executive director of the Prosecutors Alliance of California, a group that supports progressive DAs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeBerry believes the campaign to unseat Gascón is part of a wider effort among conservative law enforcement groups and donors to stop long-overdue criminal justice system reforms that are being championed by a new generation of prosecutors, like Gascón and Boudin.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","postid":"forum_2010101887969,news_11906253,news_11908825"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Well, I think there's vested interests, right? A big majority of the funds coming into these campaigns are from police associations, police lobbying money,” DeBerry said. “And they have an approach that's both based in their political beliefs, but also the benefit of having a large police force, a large jail system, a large probation system. All of those things create jobs for [their] members and continue their political power in the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Gascón’s critics say recent reform initiatives, like his vow not to pursue the death penalty in the most egregious cases, and his move to ban prosecutors from seeking enhanced sentences for defendants, undermine the deterrence effect of LA’s harder-line crime policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón’s reforms also have created significant opposition within his own office. In February, the Association of Deputy District Attorneys for Los Angeles, which represents about 700 rank-and-file prosecutors, \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/22/los-angeles-prosecutors-progressive-da-gascon-00010798\">voted 98% in support\u003c/a> of Gascón’s recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as the effort to replace him heats up, Gascón appears to be retreating from some past positions. He recently said he was open to \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/criminal-justice/la-da-gascon-issues-statement-explaining-why-hes-changing-course-on-juvenile-policy-reversal\">trying as adults some juveniles\u003c/a> who are accused of especially heinous crimes, and to seek life sentences without the possibility of parole for some adult defendants — both practices he previously vowed to ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to recall strategies, Cooley contends that unlike last year’s failed campaign against Gascón — one he says was run by “amateurs” — the effort this time around is better organized and funded, with a war chest of some $3.5 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current campaign, Cooley adds, also benefits from growing public anxiety about safety, an issue he predicts will generate voter support from more suburban and affluent areas of LA County that traditionally haven’t worried as much about crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think you're going to need, across the board, individuals that feel this is directly affecting me and I fear for my children, my family, my neighborhood, my community and, to a certain extent, my county,” Cooley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, \u003ca href=\"https://www.standwithgascon.org/\">Gascón and his allies\u003c/a> are fighting back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a press conference in December to mark his first year in office, more than a dozen progressive district attorneys from across the country praised Gascón’s reform efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11909717\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Gascon-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11909717\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Gascon-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a suit stands at a lectern, with multiple men and women behind him.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Gascon-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Gascon-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Gascon-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Gascon-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Gascon-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Gascon-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Gascon-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">LA DA George Gascón at a press conference on Dec. 8, 2021, marking his one-year anniversary on the job. Behind him are multiple progressive prosecutors from around the country, who support his criminal justice reform efforts. \u003ccite>(Saul Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I am proud to stand alongside District Attorney Gascón, who is implementing smart, evidence-based policies that will deliver safer, healthier communities in Los Angeles,” said Parisa Dehghani-Tafti, the Commonwealth’s Attorney for Arlington County, Virginia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón also used the moment to push back against critics, accusing them of political opportunism and undermining efforts to meaningfully improve public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rather than turning every tragedy into a political football and blame game, I ask that those people join us,” Gascón said. “We can do better and go further if we all work together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even some of Gascón’s allies argue he has often been flat-footed in effectively explaining his ambitious reforms to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those that are against reforms are taking the narrative and steering it the way they want,” said Sam Lewis, the executive director of LA’s Anti-Recidivism Coalition, which fights to end mass incarceration in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Formerly incarcerated and having benefited from rehabilitation programs, Lewis says Gascón needs to find people who can talk in very personal terms about the toll the criminal justice system has had on poor people of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would suggest using surrogates like myself, people who have gone through our criminal justice system and have righted their moral compass, in many instances not because of the system but despite the system,” he said. “And you didn’t have to keep them in prison for 300 years.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11909665/mounting-bid-against-la-district-attorney-gascon-mirrors-da-recall-effort-in-sf","authors":["11621"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_24162","news_17626","news_30830","news_546","news_22456"],"featImg":"news_11909718","label":"news"},"news_11839914":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11839914","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11839914","score":null,"sort":[1601219082000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"pge-begins-series-of-shutoffs-to-prevent-wildfires","title":"PG&E Begins Series of Shutoffs to Prevent Wildfires","publishDate":1601219082,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>On Sunday morning, PG&E began a temporary shut off of power to residents in portions of four counties in \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/PGE4Me/status/1310145950300725248\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Northern Sierra and North Valley\u003c/a>. The planned power shut offs to prevent wildfires sparked by electrical equipment are expected to impact residents of 16 counties and a tribe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E said it planned to initially shut off power to about 15,000 customers in Butte, Plumas, Shasta and Tehema counties starting midnight Saturday. Power will be shut off to another 74,000 customers in 12 other counties and one tribe on Sunday evening, the company said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The customers are expected to get power back on Monday night, the company said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/PGE4Me/status/1310145950300725248\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E said during the shutoffs, employees will check power lines for any damage. The company has also opened \u003ca href=\"https://pgealerts.alerts.pge.com/updates/psps-events/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">28 community resource centers\u003c/a> to help customers who lost power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shutoffs come as the state prepares for a new siege of hot, dry weather with potentially strong winds that could cause power lines to spark new blazes in parched vegetation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Red Flag warnings for extreme fire weather conditions went into effect in northern and central areas of the state at 9 p.m. Saturday and last into Monday, the National Weather Service said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/NWSBayArea/status/1309943722168082432\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A second burst of winds was expected in those regions late Sunday into Monday, while in Southern California the most critical wind conditions were expected Monday although it was unclear how strong they would be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 8,000 California wildfires so far this year have scorched 5,600 square miles, destroyed more than 7,000 buildings and killed 26 people. [aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"power-shutoffs\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the loss has occurred since a massive outbreak of fires ignited by a freakish frenzy of dry lightning strikes in mid-August. The causes of other fires remain under investigation and authorities have said one was caused by a pyrotechnic device at a gender reveal event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The renewed concern came with some 17,000 firefighters still on the lines of 25 major wildfires statewide, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, known as Cal Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent weather has been moderate, and Cal Fire said in a statement Saturday that firefighters have made “excellent progress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new threat stemmed from predictions of a fall heat wave caused by a ridge of high pressure building off the West Coast that was expected to move eastward and settle on top of Northern California well into the coming week, the weather service said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"width: 100%;height: 750px;overflow: hidden\" align=\"center\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://pgealerts.alerts.pge.com/outages/map/?type=forecasted\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" style=\"position: relative; top: -160px;\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Such pressure causes dry, warming winds to flow from the interior toward the Pacific, reversing the normal flow of moist ocean air. Some canyons, passes and valleys are prone to high windspeeds as the air squeezes through on its rush offshore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A combination of the very dry fuels, low relative humidity values, and windy conditions will lead to dangerously critical fire weather conditions,” the weather service’s Sacramento office wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The so-called Public Safety Power Shutoff programs used by PG&E and other utilities have been developed in response to disasters. Wildfires sparked by PG&E equipment include the wind-driven 2018 Camp Fire that destroyed much of Paradise and killed 85 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E has said it is refining the process to narrow the scope and shorten the length of power cuts after being sharply criticized for intentional outages last year that affected millions of people and sometimes lasted for days. When high winds were predicted earlier this month, the utility was able to implement a shutdown that affected just 167,000 customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility also began airing \u003ca href=\"https://www.iheart.com/podcast/47-prep-for-public-safety-powe-71667198/episode/preparing-for-public-safety-power-shutoffs-71667246/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">30-minute radio\u003c/a> and TV programs during the weekend to familiarize customers with its wildfire safety process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Numerous studies in recent years have linked bigger U.S. wildfires to global warming from the burning of coal, oil and gas, especially because climate change has made California much drier. A drier California means plants are more flammable.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The latest round of PG&E shutoffs have begun in some areas. Customers are expected to get power back on Monday night, the company said.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1601232480,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":true,"iframeSrcs":["https://pgealerts.alerts.pge.com/outages/map/"],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":20,"wordCount":676},"headData":{"title":"PG&E Begins Series of Shutoffs to Prevent Wildfires | KQED","description":"The latest round of PG&E shutoffs have begun in some areas. Customers are expected to get power back on Monday night, the company said.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"PG&E Begins Series of Shutoffs to Prevent Wildfires","datePublished":"2020-09-27T15:04:42.000Z","dateModified":"2020-09-27T18:48:00.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11839914 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11839914","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2020/09/27/pge-begins-series-of-shutoffs-to-prevent-wildfires/","disqusTitle":"PG&E Begins Series of Shutoffs to Prevent Wildfires","nprByline":"John Antczak \u003cbr> Associated Press ","path":"/news/11839914/pge-begins-series-of-shutoffs-to-prevent-wildfires","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On Sunday morning, PG&E began a temporary shut off of power to residents in portions of four counties in \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/PGE4Me/status/1310145950300725248\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Northern Sierra and North Valley\u003c/a>. The planned power shut offs to prevent wildfires sparked by electrical equipment are expected to impact residents of 16 counties and a tribe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E said it planned to initially shut off power to about 15,000 customers in Butte, Plumas, Shasta and Tehema counties starting midnight Saturday. Power will be shut off to another 74,000 customers in 12 other counties and one tribe on Sunday evening, the company said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The customers are expected to get power back on Monday night, the company said.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1310145950300725248"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>PG&E said during the shutoffs, employees will check power lines for any damage. The company has also opened \u003ca href=\"https://pgealerts.alerts.pge.com/updates/psps-events/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">28 community resource centers\u003c/a> to help customers who lost power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shutoffs come as the state prepares for a new siege of hot, dry weather with potentially strong winds that could cause power lines to spark new blazes in parched vegetation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Red Flag warnings for extreme fire weather conditions went into effect in northern and central areas of the state at 9 p.m. Saturday and last into Monday, the National Weather Service said.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1309943722168082432"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>A second burst of winds was expected in those regions late Sunday into Monday, while in Southern California the most critical wind conditions were expected Monday although it was unclear how strong they would be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 8,000 California wildfires so far this year have scorched 5,600 square miles, destroyed more than 7,000 buildings and killed 26 people. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"related coverage ","tag":"power-shutoffs"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the loss has occurred since a massive outbreak of fires ignited by a freakish frenzy of dry lightning strikes in mid-August. The causes of other fires remain under investigation and authorities have said one was caused by a pyrotechnic device at a gender reveal event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The renewed concern came with some 17,000 firefighters still on the lines of 25 major wildfires statewide, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, known as Cal Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent weather has been moderate, and Cal Fire said in a statement Saturday that firefighters have made “excellent progress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new threat stemmed from predictions of a fall heat wave caused by a ridge of high pressure building off the West Coast that was expected to move eastward and settle on top of Northern California well into the coming week, the weather service said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"width: 100%;height: 750px;overflow: hidden\" align=\"center\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://pgealerts.alerts.pge.com/outages/map/?type=forecasted\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" style=\"position: relative; top: -160px;\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Such pressure causes dry, warming winds to flow from the interior toward the Pacific, reversing the normal flow of moist ocean air. Some canyons, passes and valleys are prone to high windspeeds as the air squeezes through on its rush offshore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A combination of the very dry fuels, low relative humidity values, and windy conditions will lead to dangerously critical fire weather conditions,” the weather service’s Sacramento office wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The so-called Public Safety Power Shutoff programs used by PG&E and other utilities have been developed in response to disasters. Wildfires sparked by PG&E equipment include the wind-driven 2018 Camp Fire that destroyed much of Paradise and killed 85 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E has said it is refining the process to narrow the scope and shorten the length of power cuts after being sharply criticized for intentional outages last year that affected millions of people and sometimes lasted for days. When high winds were predicted earlier this month, the utility was able to implement a shutdown that affected just 167,000 customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility also began airing \u003ca href=\"https://www.iheart.com/podcast/47-prep-for-public-safety-powe-71667198/episode/preparing-for-public-safety-power-shutoffs-71667246/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">30-minute radio\u003c/a> and TV programs during the weekend to familiarize customers with its wildfire safety process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Numerous studies in recent years have linked bigger U.S. wildfires to global warming from the burning of coal, oil and gas, especially because climate change has made California much drier. A drier California means plants are more flammable.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11839914/pge-begins-series-of-shutoffs-to-prevent-wildfires","authors":["byline_news_11839914"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_1386","news_27626","news_140","news_20592","news_26787","news_26806","news_22456"],"featImg":"news_11839918","label":"news"},"news_11795699":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11795699","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11795699","score":null,"sort":[1578845125000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-sends-earthquake-response-experts-to-puerto-rico","title":"California Sends Earthquake Response Experts to Puerto Rico","publishDate":1578845125,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>California is sending 31 disaster specialists to Puerto Rico after a magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck the island’s southern coast on Saturday, the latest in a series of quakes over the past week that have toppled homes and schools and left more than 4,000 people in shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom said the deployment comes in response to the Puerto Rican government’s request for assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='earthquake' label='Related Coverage.']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Governor’s Office of Emergency Services says in a statement that the team will depart from Sacramento on Sunday and will spend 16 days working with emergency management and public safety officials there. The group consists of experts in incident and emergency management, engineering and safety assessment, planning, public information, debris management and crisis counseling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week, Newsom approved the deployment of four firefighters to assist with search and rescue operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ground in southwest Puerto Rico has been shaking since Dec. 28, with more than 1,100 earthquakes, of which more than 100 were felt and more than 66 were of magnitude 3.5 or greater. Saturday’s quake occurred four days after a 6.4 magnitude quake in the same area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Gov. Gavin Newsom said the deployment comes in response to the Puerto Rican government’s request for assistance.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1578845125,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":8,"wordCount":204},"headData":{"title":"California Sends Earthquake Response Experts to Puerto Rico | KQED","description":"Gov. 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Gavin Newsom said the deployment comes in response to the Puerto Rican government’s request for assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"earthquake","label":"Related Coverage. "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Governor’s Office of Emergency Services says in a statement that the team will depart from Sacramento on Sunday and will spend 16 days working with emergency management and public safety officials there. The group consists of experts in incident and emergency management, engineering and safety assessment, planning, public information, debris management and crisis counseling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week, Newsom approved the deployment of four firefighters to assist with search and rescue operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ground in southwest Puerto Rico has been shaking since Dec. 28, with more than 1,100 earthquakes, of which more than 100 were felt and more than 66 were of magnitude 3.5 or greater. Saturday’s quake occurred four days after a 6.4 magnitude quake in the same area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11795699/california-sends-earthquake-response-experts-to-puerto-rico","authors":["byline_news_11795699"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_1012","news_22456","news_21683"],"featImg":"news_11795700","label":"source_news_11795699"},"news_11742275":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11742275","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11742275","score":null,"sort":[1556060804000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"defendants-must-pay-for-a-public-defender-new-bill-aims-to-end-that-admin-fee-and-others","title":"Defendants Must Pay for a Public Defender. New Bill Aims to End That Fee (And Others)","publishDate":1556060804,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Defendants in California's criminal justice system often face numerous fees related to their cases: Counties can charge them for things like using a public defender ($50) or being arrested ($25).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11350207' label='New Bill Aims to Stop Charging Parents of Incarcerated Kids']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB144\">Senate Bill 144,\u003c/a> sponsored by state Sen. Holly Mitchell (D-Los Angeles), would prevent counties from assessing and collecting those administrative fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This practice inflicts unfair debt on incarcerated people and their families long after they have served their time,\" she said Tuesday in introducing the bill at a press conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angelique Evans, who joined the press conference, said she faced so many fees when she was released from prison — more than $300 a month — that she struggled to take care of her son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To make ends meet, I took on jobs that I knew my body could not handle, such as landscaping and solar installation,\" said Evans, who lives in Los Angeles. \"I was literally wearing myself out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell said recent studies show most counties don't even track collection rates. Those that did keep track found low collection rates and a high cost of collection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Communities, courts, counties and evidence-based studies make it abundantly clear that the fees are high pain and low gain,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2017 Mitchell authored a similar bill, \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB190\">SB 190\u003c/a>, that eliminated the fees for juvenile offenders.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Defendants in California's criminal justice system often face numerous fees related to their cases: Counties can charge them for things like using a public defender ($50) or being arrested ($25).","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1556063562,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":11,"wordCount":238},"headData":{"title":"Defendants Must Pay for a Public Defender. New Bill Aims to End That Fee (And Others) | KQED","description":"Defendants in California's criminal justice system often face numerous fees related to their cases: Counties can charge them for things like using a public defender ($50) or being arrested ($25).","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Defendants Must Pay for a Public Defender. New Bill Aims to End That Fee (And Others)","datePublished":"2019-04-23T23:06:44.000Z","dateModified":"2019-04-23T23:52:42.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11742275 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11742275","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/04/23/defendants-must-pay-for-a-public-defender-new-bill-aims-to-end-that-admin-fee-and-others/","disqusTitle":"Defendants Must Pay for a Public Defender. New Bill Aims to End That Fee (And Others)","path":"/news/11742275/defendants-must-pay-for-a-public-defender-new-bill-aims-to-end-that-admin-fee-and-others","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Defendants in California's criminal justice system often face numerous fees related to their cases: Counties can charge them for things like using a public defender ($50) or being arrested ($25).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11350207","label":"New Bill Aims to Stop Charging Parents of Incarcerated Kids "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB144\">Senate Bill 144,\u003c/a> sponsored by state Sen. Holly Mitchell (D-Los Angeles), would prevent counties from assessing and collecting those administrative fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This practice inflicts unfair debt on incarcerated people and their families long after they have served their time,\" she said Tuesday in introducing the bill at a press conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angelique Evans, who joined the press conference, said she faced so many fees when she was released from prison — more than $300 a month — that she struggled to take care of her son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To make ends meet, I took on jobs that I knew my body could not handle, such as landscaping and solar installation,\" said Evans, who lives in Los Angeles. \"I was literally wearing myself out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell said recent studies show most counties don't even track collection rates. Those that did keep track found low collection rates and a high cost of collection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Communities, courts, counties and evidence-based studies make it abundantly clear that the fees are high pain and low gain,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2017 Mitchell authored a similar bill, \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB190\">SB 190\u003c/a>, that eliminated the fees for juvenile offenders.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11742275/defendants-must-pay-for-a-public-defender-new-bill-aims-to-end-that-admin-fee-and-others","authors":["11200"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_17725","news_20621","news_22456"],"featImg":"news_11742282","label":"news_72"},"news_11732654":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11732654","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11732654","score":null,"sort":[1552506840000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"u-s-will-ground-all-flights-of-boeing-737-max-8-and-max-9-trump-says","title":"FAA Grounds Boeing 737 Max Planes In U.S., Pending Investigation","publishDate":1552506840,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 12:54 p.m. PST\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Federal Aviation Administration says it is temporarily grounding all Boeing 737 Max aircraft operated by U.S. airlines or in U.S. territory. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcement Wednesday afternoon follows decisions by many other countries to ground the planes after 157 people died in Sunday's crash of an Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The grounding will remain in effect pending further investigation, including examination of information from the aircraft's flight data recorders and cockpit voice recorders,\" the FAA said \u003ca href=\"https://www.faa.gov/news/updates/?newsId=93206\">in a statement\u003c/a>. \"The agency made this decision as a result of the data gathering process and new evidence collected at the site and analyzed today. This evidence, together with newly refined satellite data available to FAA this morning, led to this decision.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=”right” citation=\"Peter Goelz, former NTSB managing director\"]'I am beginning to be concerned about this airplane.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.faa.gov/news/updates/media/Emergency_Order.pdf\">The emergency order\u003c/a> is effective immediately. Any Boeing 737 Max 8 and Max 9 planes that were in flight when the order was issued \"may proceed to and complete their soonest planned landing\" — but they are not permitted to take off again. The order remains in effect until the FAA rescinds or modifies it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FAA says it made the decision on the basis of new information it discovered in the course of investigating wreckage from the Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302. The agency says there are 74 Boeing 737 Max 8 and Max 9 planes registered in the U.S., and 387 worldwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement Wednesday, Boeing said it \"continues to have full confidence in the safety of the 737 MAX.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"However, after consultation with the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), and aviation authorities and its customers around the world, Boeing has determined — out of an abundance of caution and in order to reassure the flying public of the aircraft's safety — to recommend to the FAA the temporary suspension of operations of the entire global fleet of 371 737 MAX aircraft.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11732498]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For days, the FAA had said the planes are safe to fly. Major U.S. airlines such as Southwest — which uses 34 of the Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft — also expressed confidence in the plane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Southwest seemed to indicate in \u003ca href=\"https://www.swamedia.com/releases/release-daf60ecafe4ecff4f2a50ff5c0020cdc-statement-regarding-the-boeing-737-max-8\">a statement\u003c/a> Wednesday that it had been caught off guard by the U.S. decision to ground the planes, saying the airline is \"aware of media reports stating that the Boeing 737 MAX 8 fleet will be grounded in the United States. We are currently seeking confirmation and additional guidance from the FAA and will respond accordingly in the interest of aviation safety.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>American Airlines said it had been informed earlier in the day that the entire Boeing 737 Max fleet would be grounded \"out of an abundance of caution.\" The emergency order will affect 24 of the airline's planes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FAA said Monday that it would require Boeing to improve how the 737 Max flight control systems work, along with other design changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Sunday's crash, Ethiopian Airlines grounded its four remaining 737 Max 8 planes. Dozens of countries, including Germany and China, also grounded their airlines' 737 Max 8s. In some places, such as India, Australia and the European Union, aviation authorities have banned the entire 737 Max family of planes from their airspace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Canada took action Wednesday, with Transport Minister Marc Garneau \u003ca href=\"https://www.canada.ca/en/transport-canada/news/2019/03/minister-garneau-statement-regarding-restricting-airspace-to-boeing-737-max-8-and-9-aircraft.html\">announcing restrictions\u003c/a> barring \"any air operator, both domestic and foreign,\" from flying the Boeing 737 Max 8 and 9 through Canadian airspace. Air Canada has taken delivery of 23 of the 737 Max planes, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.boeing.com/commercial/#/orders-deliveries\">Boeing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite previous reassurances in the U.S. about safety, concerns have continued to mount. Peter Goelz, a former managing director of the National Transportation Safety Board, told NPR:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have to say that yesterday was the first time I started to really have concerns myself, because I've worked with the British investigators and regulators. I've also worked with the German investigators. And I have the highest regard for them. These are not folks that would make haphazard judgments. So, I am concerned that some of the finest regulatory and investigative groups have now called for the grounding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am beginning to be concerned about this airplane.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/702936894/703012942\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Describing how the FAA functions, Goelz said the agency — which has sent a team of investigators to the crash site in Ethiopia — is \"data-driven\" and doesn't make decisions on anecdotal evidence. \"They really have a close working and regulatory relationship with Boeing,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. aviation system is essentially governed through cooperative and voluntary relationships between the government and manufacturers, Goelz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are not enough inspectors on the payroll to really have a 'Gotcha!' oversight,\" he said. \"So they cooperate very closely. And it's a relationship that encourages the admittance of mistakes, it's a relationship that has given us a very great system. But in times like this, it's a relationship that certainly people question.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those questions include speculation about whether Boeing executives might have tried to influence the Trump administration in an effort to tamp down safety concerns about the 737 Max 8 — the fastest-selling plane in Boeing's history, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/03/11/702211493/boeing-737-max-involved-in-two-crashes-is-fastest-selling-plane-in-companys-hist\">more than 5,000 ordered\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg has spoken directly to Trump about the crash, \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ethiopia-airlines-trump/ties-between-boeing-and-trump-run-deep-idUSKBN1QT2MQ\">according to Reuters\u003c/a>, which notes that the two men have also spoken several times in the past — including negotiations over the price of the new Air Force One. The news agency also notes that acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan was a longtime Boeing manager. And Nikki Haley, Trump's former U.N. ambassador, has been nominated to join Boeing's board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The questions are surfacing months after U.S. pilots criticized Boeing in the wake of the Lion Air disaster, saying the plane-maker had not provided enough information or training about a critical aspect of its new flight control system, as \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/11/15/668135787/airline-pilots-raise-concerns-about-boeings-737-max\">NPR's David Schaper reported\u003c/a> in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pilot of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 reported having flight control problems with the Boeing 737 Max 8 in the minutes before it crashed, airline CEO Tewolde GebreMariam says, providing new details about the disaster that killed 157 people on Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11732655\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/boeing-737max-ethiopian-airlines-267708a79c1ab9412d6e21dbec4b4329fea8b6d4-800x599.jpg\" alt=\"Relatives of the 157 people who died in Sunday's crash of a Boeing 737 Max 8 were allowed to visit the site of the disaster Wednesday. Ethiopian Airlines says its pilot was well-trained — and that he had reported trouble with the jetliner's flight controls just before the plane went down.\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11732655\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Relatives of the 157 people who died in Sunday's crash of a Boeing 737 Max 8 were allowed to visit the site of the disaster Wednesday. Ethiopian Airlines says its pilot was well-trained — and that he had reported trouble with the jetliner's flight controls just before the plane went down. \u003ccite>(Baz Ratner/Reuters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pilot Yared Getachew, who had more than 8,000 flight hours of experience, \"was having difficulties with the flight control\" and requested a return to the airport in Addis Ababa, GebreMariam told CNN, citing recordings of communications between the plane and air traffic controllers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clearance for an immediate return was granted. But the plane didn't make it back, crashing just six minutes after takeoff and stoking concerns about Boeing's new Max 8 passenger jet — which was involved in another deadly crash under similar circumstances in Indonesia less than five months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In both disasters, flight tracking data shows the pilots struggled to keep their aircrafts' noses up and maintain altitude — an issue that U.S. regulators sought to address late last year, sending an emergency directive for all Boeing 737 Max 8 and Max 9 planes and warning of an \"unsafe condition\" that could lead to \"excessive nose-down attitude, significant altitude loss, and possible impact with terrain.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Federal Aviation Administration ordered changes to the planes' flight manuals and procedures in November — and Ethiopian Air says it followed those guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/flyethiopian/status/1105746231308046336\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There was an AD [airworthiness directive] released by Boeing\" that was circulated to the airline's pilots, GebreMariam said, referring to the emergency airworthiness directive that came out shortly after the Lion Air crash in Indonesian in October 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There was also a briefing on the AD,\" the CEO said. \"So yes, the pilots were well-briefed on the airworthiness directive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several U.S. pilots who reported having trouble controlling Boeing 737 Max planes early in their flights used NASA's Aviation Safety Reporting System to flag issues they encountered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In two cases, pilots flying in the U.S. late last year had their planes pitch down unexpectedly after departures. Both times, the crew disengaged the autopilot and were able to keep flying safely,\" NPR's Russell Lewis reports. \"In a third report, a pilot complained that the Boeing 737 MAX's flight manual was inadequate and 'almost criminally insufficient.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, the Allied Pilots Association, which represents American Airlines' 15,000 pilots, \u003ca href=\"https://www.alliedpilots.org/News/ID/6769/Allied-Pilots-Association-Remains-Confident-in-Boeing-737-Max\">issued a statement\u003c/a> saying the union \"remains confident in the Boeing 737 Max and in our members' ability to safely fly it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group said its pilots \"have the necessary training and experience to troubleshoot problems and take decisive actions on the flight deck to protect our passengers and crew.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the union endorsed the continued use of the 737 Max, it added, \"The flying public should also be aware that American Airlines' Boeing 737 Max planes are unique.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The two dozen 737 Max aircraft in the American Airlines fleet are the only ones equipped with two AOA [Angle of Attack] displays, one for each pilot, providing an extra layer of awareness and warning,\" the union said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those displays could be crucial in avoiding a sudden downward pitch, which Boeing and the FAA have acknowledged as a risk in the airworthiness bulletin that was issued shortly after the crash of Lion Air Flight 610.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The airworthiness directive said Boeing had found the automated anti-stall system on its 737 Max 8 and Max 9 models can be triggered by a sensor reporting an erroneously high angle of attack — meaning the system believes the nose is too high and the plane is stalling, even though it's not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem presents \"a potential for repeated nose-down trim commands,\" the directive states, noting, \"This condition, if not addressed, could cause the flight crew to have difficulty controlling the airplane\" and possibly resulting in a crash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigation into the Ethiopian crash is still in its early stages, and experts have warned against drawing conclusions, despite similarities between the two deadly disasters. The Ethiopian Airlines plane's digital flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder were recovered Monday, and GebreMariam said they will be sent overseas for analysis, likely to either the U.S. or a European country. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=FAA+Grounds+Boeing+737+Max+Planes+In+U.S.%2C+Pending+Investigation&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The announcement Wednesday afternoon follows decisions by many other countries to ground the planes in the wake of Sunday's deadly crash of an Ethiopian Airlines flight.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1552508833,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":45,"wordCount":1792},"headData":{"title":"FAA Grounds Boeing 737 Max Planes In U.S., Pending Investigation | KQED","description":"The announcement Wednesday afternoon follows decisions by many other countries to ground the planes in the wake of Sunday's deadly crash of an Ethiopian Airlines flight.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"FAA Grounds Boeing 737 Max Planes In U.S., Pending Investigation","datePublished":"2019-03-13T19:54:00.000Z","dateModified":"2019-03-13T20:27:13.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11732654 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11732654","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/03/13/u-s-will-ground-all-flights-of-boeing-737-max-8-and-max-9-trump-says/","disqusTitle":"FAA Grounds Boeing 737 Max Planes In U.S., Pending Investigation","source":"NPR","sourceUrl":"https://www.npr.org/","nprImageCredit":"Baz Ratner","nprByline":"Laurel Wamsley","nprImageAgency":"Reuters","nprStoryId":"702936894","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=702936894&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2019/03/13/702936894/ethiopian-pilot-had-problems-with-boeing-737-max-8-flight-controls-he-wasnt-alon?ft=nprml&f=702936894","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Wed, 13 Mar 2019 16:00:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Wed, 13 Mar 2019 12:43:00 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Wed, 13 Mar 2019 16:00:37 -0400","nprAudio":"https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2019/03/20190313_me_why_did_a_boeing_737_max_8_crash_on_sunday_the_investigation_is_in_its_early_stages.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1006&d=333&story=702936894&ft=nprml&f=702936894","nprAudioM3u":"http://api.npr.org/m3u/1703012942-10df81.m3u?orgId=1&topicId=1006&d=333&story=702936894&ft=nprml&f=702936894","audioTrackLength":334,"path":"/news/11732654/u-s-will-ground-all-flights-of-boeing-737-max-8-and-max-9-trump-says","audioUrl":"https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2019/03/20190313_me_why_did_a_boeing_737_max_8_crash_on_sunday_the_investigation_is_in_its_early_stages.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1006&d=333&story=702936894&ft=nprml&f=702936894","parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 12:54 p.m. PST\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Federal Aviation Administration says it is temporarily grounding all Boeing 737 Max aircraft operated by U.S. airlines or in U.S. territory. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcement Wednesday afternoon follows decisions by many other countries to ground the planes after 157 people died in Sunday's crash of an Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The grounding will remain in effect pending further investigation, including examination of information from the aircraft's flight data recorders and cockpit voice recorders,\" the FAA said \u003ca href=\"https://www.faa.gov/news/updates/?newsId=93206\">in a statement\u003c/a>. \"The agency made this decision as a result of the data gathering process and new evidence collected at the site and analyzed today. This evidence, together with newly refined satellite data available to FAA this morning, led to this decision.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'I am beginning to be concerned about this airplane.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"”right”","citation":"Peter Goelz, former NTSB managing director","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.faa.gov/news/updates/media/Emergency_Order.pdf\">The emergency order\u003c/a> is effective immediately. Any Boeing 737 Max 8 and Max 9 planes that were in flight when the order was issued \"may proceed to and complete their soonest planned landing\" — but they are not permitted to take off again. The order remains in effect until the FAA rescinds or modifies it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FAA says it made the decision on the basis of new information it discovered in the course of investigating wreckage from the Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302. The agency says there are 74 Boeing 737 Max 8 and Max 9 planes registered in the U.S., and 387 worldwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement Wednesday, Boeing said it \"continues to have full confidence in the safety of the 737 MAX.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"However, after consultation with the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), and aviation authorities and its customers around the world, Boeing has determined — out of an abundance of caution and in order to reassure the flying public of the aircraft's safety — to recommend to the FAA the temporary suspension of operations of the entire global fleet of 371 737 MAX aircraft.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11732498","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For days, the FAA had said the planes are safe to fly. Major U.S. airlines such as Southwest — which uses 34 of the Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft — also expressed confidence in the plane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Southwest seemed to indicate in \u003ca href=\"https://www.swamedia.com/releases/release-daf60ecafe4ecff4f2a50ff5c0020cdc-statement-regarding-the-boeing-737-max-8\">a statement\u003c/a> Wednesday that it had been caught off guard by the U.S. decision to ground the planes, saying the airline is \"aware of media reports stating that the Boeing 737 MAX 8 fleet will be grounded in the United States. We are currently seeking confirmation and additional guidance from the FAA and will respond accordingly in the interest of aviation safety.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>American Airlines said it had been informed earlier in the day that the entire Boeing 737 Max fleet would be grounded \"out of an abundance of caution.\" The emergency order will affect 24 of the airline's planes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FAA said Monday that it would require Boeing to improve how the 737 Max flight control systems work, along with other design changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Sunday's crash, Ethiopian Airlines grounded its four remaining 737 Max 8 planes. Dozens of countries, including Germany and China, also grounded their airlines' 737 Max 8s. In some places, such as India, Australia and the European Union, aviation authorities have banned the entire 737 Max family of planes from their airspace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Canada took action Wednesday, with Transport Minister Marc Garneau \u003ca href=\"https://www.canada.ca/en/transport-canada/news/2019/03/minister-garneau-statement-regarding-restricting-airspace-to-boeing-737-max-8-and-9-aircraft.html\">announcing restrictions\u003c/a> barring \"any air operator, both domestic and foreign,\" from flying the Boeing 737 Max 8 and 9 through Canadian airspace. Air Canada has taken delivery of 23 of the 737 Max planes, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.boeing.com/commercial/#/orders-deliveries\">Boeing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite previous reassurances in the U.S. about safety, concerns have continued to mount. Peter Goelz, a former managing director of the National Transportation Safety Board, told NPR:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have to say that yesterday was the first time I started to really have concerns myself, because I've worked with the British investigators and regulators. I've also worked with the German investigators. And I have the highest regard for them. These are not folks that would make haphazard judgments. So, I am concerned that some of the finest regulatory and investigative groups have now called for the grounding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am beginning to be concerned about this airplane.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/702936894/703012942\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Describing how the FAA functions, Goelz said the agency — which has sent a team of investigators to the crash site in Ethiopia — is \"data-driven\" and doesn't make decisions on anecdotal evidence. \"They really have a close working and regulatory relationship with Boeing,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. aviation system is essentially governed through cooperative and voluntary relationships between the government and manufacturers, Goelz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are not enough inspectors on the payroll to really have a 'Gotcha!' oversight,\" he said. \"So they cooperate very closely. And it's a relationship that encourages the admittance of mistakes, it's a relationship that has given us a very great system. But in times like this, it's a relationship that certainly people question.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those questions include speculation about whether Boeing executives might have tried to influence the Trump administration in an effort to tamp down safety concerns about the 737 Max 8 — the fastest-selling plane in Boeing's history, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/03/11/702211493/boeing-737-max-involved-in-two-crashes-is-fastest-selling-plane-in-companys-hist\">more than 5,000 ordered\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg has spoken directly to Trump about the crash, \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ethiopia-airlines-trump/ties-between-boeing-and-trump-run-deep-idUSKBN1QT2MQ\">according to Reuters\u003c/a>, which notes that the two men have also spoken several times in the past — including negotiations over the price of the new Air Force One. The news agency also notes that acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan was a longtime Boeing manager. And Nikki Haley, Trump's former U.N. ambassador, has been nominated to join Boeing's board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The questions are surfacing months after U.S. pilots criticized Boeing in the wake of the Lion Air disaster, saying the plane-maker had not provided enough information or training about a critical aspect of its new flight control system, as \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/11/15/668135787/airline-pilots-raise-concerns-about-boeings-737-max\">NPR's David Schaper reported\u003c/a> in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pilot of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 reported having flight control problems with the Boeing 737 Max 8 in the minutes before it crashed, airline CEO Tewolde GebreMariam says, providing new details about the disaster that killed 157 people on Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11732655\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/boeing-737max-ethiopian-airlines-267708a79c1ab9412d6e21dbec4b4329fea8b6d4-800x599.jpg\" alt=\"Relatives of the 157 people who died in Sunday's crash of a Boeing 737 Max 8 were allowed to visit the site of the disaster Wednesday. Ethiopian Airlines says its pilot was well-trained — and that he had reported trouble with the jetliner's flight controls just before the plane went down.\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11732655\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Relatives of the 157 people who died in Sunday's crash of a Boeing 737 Max 8 were allowed to visit the site of the disaster Wednesday. Ethiopian Airlines says its pilot was well-trained — and that he had reported trouble with the jetliner's flight controls just before the plane went down. \u003ccite>(Baz Ratner/Reuters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pilot Yared Getachew, who had more than 8,000 flight hours of experience, \"was having difficulties with the flight control\" and requested a return to the airport in Addis Ababa, GebreMariam told CNN, citing recordings of communications between the plane and air traffic controllers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clearance for an immediate return was granted. But the plane didn't make it back, crashing just six minutes after takeoff and stoking concerns about Boeing's new Max 8 passenger jet — which was involved in another deadly crash under similar circumstances in Indonesia less than five months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In both disasters, flight tracking data shows the pilots struggled to keep their aircrafts' noses up and maintain altitude — an issue that U.S. regulators sought to address late last year, sending an emergency directive for all Boeing 737 Max 8 and Max 9 planes and warning of an \"unsafe condition\" that could lead to \"excessive nose-down attitude, significant altitude loss, and possible impact with terrain.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Federal Aviation Administration ordered changes to the planes' flight manuals and procedures in November — and Ethiopian Air says it followed those guidelines.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1105746231308046336"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\"There was an AD [airworthiness directive] released by Boeing\" that was circulated to the airline's pilots, GebreMariam said, referring to the emergency airworthiness directive that came out shortly after the Lion Air crash in Indonesian in October 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There was also a briefing on the AD,\" the CEO said. \"So yes, the pilots were well-briefed on the airworthiness directive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several U.S. pilots who reported having trouble controlling Boeing 737 Max planes early in their flights used NASA's Aviation Safety Reporting System to flag issues they encountered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In two cases, pilots flying in the U.S. late last year had their planes pitch down unexpectedly after departures. Both times, the crew disengaged the autopilot and were able to keep flying safely,\" NPR's Russell Lewis reports. \"In a third report, a pilot complained that the Boeing 737 MAX's flight manual was inadequate and 'almost criminally insufficient.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, the Allied Pilots Association, which represents American Airlines' 15,000 pilots, \u003ca href=\"https://www.alliedpilots.org/News/ID/6769/Allied-Pilots-Association-Remains-Confident-in-Boeing-737-Max\">issued a statement\u003c/a> saying the union \"remains confident in the Boeing 737 Max and in our members' ability to safely fly it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group said its pilots \"have the necessary training and experience to troubleshoot problems and take decisive actions on the flight deck to protect our passengers and crew.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the union endorsed the continued use of the 737 Max, it added, \"The flying public should also be aware that American Airlines' Boeing 737 Max planes are unique.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The two dozen 737 Max aircraft in the American Airlines fleet are the only ones equipped with two AOA [Angle of Attack] displays, one for each pilot, providing an extra layer of awareness and warning,\" the union said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those displays could be crucial in avoiding a sudden downward pitch, which Boeing and the FAA have acknowledged as a risk in the airworthiness bulletin that was issued shortly after the crash of Lion Air Flight 610.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The airworthiness directive said Boeing had found the automated anti-stall system on its 737 Max 8 and Max 9 models can be triggered by a sensor reporting an erroneously high angle of attack — meaning the system believes the nose is too high and the plane is stalling, even though it's not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem presents \"a potential for repeated nose-down trim commands,\" the directive states, noting, \"This condition, if not addressed, could cause the flight crew to have difficulty controlling the airplane\" and possibly resulting in a crash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigation into the Ethiopian crash is still in its early stages, and experts have warned against drawing conclusions, despite similarities between the two deadly disasters. The Ethiopian Airlines plane's digital flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder were recovered Monday, and GebreMariam said they will be sent overseas for analysis, likely to either the U.S. or a European country. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=FAA+Grounds+Boeing+737+Max+Planes+In+U.S.%2C+Pending+Investigation&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11732654/u-s-will-ground-all-flights-of-boeing-737-max-8-and-max-9-trump-says","authors":["byline_news_11732654"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_8","news_13","news_1397"],"tags":["news_25200","news_25198","news_1323","news_22456"],"affiliates":["news_253"],"featImg":"news_11732667","label":"source_news_11732654"},"news_11699521":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11699521","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11699521","score":null,"sort":[1540402521000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"after-workers-death-on-muni-project-s-f-grapples-with-how-to-vet-contractor-safety-records","title":"After Worker's Death on Muni Project, S.F. Grapples With How to Vet Contractor Safety Records","publishDate":1540402521,"format":"image","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>In the aftermath of an August incident in which a worker died working in a Muni tunnel, San Francisco agencies say they do not yet have a comprehensive system in place to warn each other about contractors who have had safety problems while working on city construction projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, city officials say they've begun building a database in which departments can enter information about contractors — including any documented safety concerns — that other agencies will be able to access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue was raised last week in a Board of Supervisors committee meeting prompted by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11686567/worker-dies-after-twin-peaks-tunnel-project-construction-accident\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Aug. 10 death\u003c/a> of Patrick Ricketts, 51, a worker with Shimmick Construction killed by a falling steel beam in Muni's Twin Peaks Tunnel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the hearing of the board's Government Audit and Oversight Committee, Supervisor Norman Yee asked John Thomas, a San Francisco Public Works engineer and deputy director for infrastructure, whether the department notifies other city agencies about contractors that have had safety issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Is this information used for future potential contracts?\" Yee asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If, for instance, you see a pattern and it doesn't really stop and they haven't done any corrective actions, do you use that information to say 'you know something, we can't be giving this particular company a new contract?\" Yee inquired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At this point, no, it is not used as part of the selection process,\" Thomas answered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11700900\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/NormanYee-800x524.jpg\" alt=\"Supervisor Norman Yee called a hearing last week in response to questions that arose after a worker's death near West Portal Station.\" width=\"800\" height=\"524\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11700900\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/NormanYee-800x524.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/NormanYee-160x105.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/NormanYee-960x629.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/NormanYee-240x157.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/NormanYee-375x246.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/NormanYee-520x341.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/NormanYee.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Norman Yee called a hearing last week in response to questions that arose after a worker's death near West Portal Station. \u003ccite>(Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When asked about Thomas' remarks, Public Works spokeswoman Rachel Gordon said city departments have begun a pilot project using an internal website, completed last February, where they can store reviews of construction jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, records from eight projects have been entered in the site. City officials plan to add more in the coming months as the project continues to roll out, Gordon said in emailed responses to questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said documenting city officials' concerns is key.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The issue is largely about making a fair decision that is supported by documentation of poor performance,\" she said. \"If a department doesn't award a contract because of its concerns about the ability of the contractor to perform, it must backup that decision with documentation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gordon also pushed back against the idea that city agencies don't have access to safety information about contractors that bid on city projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Departments may ask about safe work history on past work for the city,\" Gordon said in an email. \"The department may check references by asking its employees or those of other city departments,\" Gordon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee called last week's hearing in response to questions that arose after Ricketts' death near West Portal Station.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11686976/muni-chief-downplays-safety-concerns-in-sf-tunnel-project-after-worker-death\">Muni Chief Downplays Safety Concerns in S.F. Tunnel Project After Worker's Death\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11686976/muni-chief-downplays-safety-concerns-in-sf-tunnel-project-after-worker-death\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/tunnel-1180x592.png\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In the days after the incident, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11686976/muni-chief-downplays-safety-concerns-in-sf-tunnel-project-after-worker-death\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news reports disclosed\u003c/a> his employer, Oakland-based Shimmick Construction, was tied to dozens of workplace violations over the last decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But prior to beginning work on the Twin Peaks Tunnel, the company and its partner on the project, Con-Quest, answered \"no\" on a San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority questionnaire that asked whether they had been cited for any serious and willful violations by California's Division of Occupational Safety and Health, or Cal/OSHA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the alleged violations for which Cal/OSHA has fined Shimmick were \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/pls/imis/establishment.inspection_detail?id=1192534.015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">three serious infractions\u003c/a> involving the death of a forklift driver in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shimmick, which faces a $46,800 penalty in the case, is contesting Cal/OSHA's findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Aaron Peskin said city agencies that use similar questionnaires should change the way they ask about contractor safety records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It can take years to close out a case,\" Peskin said. He urged all departments to ask contractors to list all workplace safety incidents they're associated with, even those still under investigation or appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Siew-Chin Yeong, SFMTA's director of capital programs and construction, said that her agency wants to require contractors to submit annual summaries of work-related injuries when bidding on a project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Yee pointed out that on many city construction jobs, the project's main contractor hires smaller companies to do large parts of the work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"How do we control that?\" Yee asked, looking for city rules on how the agencies track the safety records of subcontractors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The general contractor is fully responsible for the safety site including the safety of the sub-contractor,\" Yeong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the focus of the hearing and of previous news coverage has focused on weaknesses in vetting the safety records of contractors, it should be noted that city officials in recent years have been meeting to collaborate more efficiently on what they know about construction companies, emphasized Nicholas King, a process improvement analyst for Public Works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know that you've heard from three departments today, and you guys are asking questions and the public's here and the press is watching,\" King said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just want to be clear that we're all on the same page, and we're all on the same team, and we're all committed to safety.\"\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"San Francisco doesn't yet have a comprehensive system in place for agencies to check on whether bidders for city projects have had safety complaints.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1540402521,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":29,"wordCount":868},"headData":{"title":"After Worker's Death on Muni Project, S.F. Grapples With How to Vet Contractor Safety Records | KQED","description":"San Francisco doesn't yet have a comprehensive system in place for agencies to check on whether bidders for city projects have had safety complaints.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"After Worker's Death on Muni Project, S.F. Grapples With How to Vet Contractor Safety Records","datePublished":"2018-10-24T17:35:21.000Z","dateModified":"2018-10-24T17:35:21.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11699521 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11699521","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/10/24/after-workers-death-on-muni-project-s-f-grapples-with-how-to-vet-contractor-safety-records/","disqusTitle":"After Worker's Death on Muni Project, S.F. Grapples With How to Vet Contractor Safety Records","path":"/news/11699521/after-workers-death-on-muni-project-s-f-grapples-with-how-to-vet-contractor-safety-records","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In the aftermath of an August incident in which a worker died working in a Muni tunnel, San Francisco agencies say they do not yet have a comprehensive system in place to warn each other about contractors who have had safety problems while working on city construction projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, city officials say they've begun building a database in which departments can enter information about contractors — including any documented safety concerns — that other agencies will be able to access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue was raised last week in a Board of Supervisors committee meeting prompted by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11686567/worker-dies-after-twin-peaks-tunnel-project-construction-accident\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Aug. 10 death\u003c/a> of Patrick Ricketts, 51, a worker with Shimmick Construction killed by a falling steel beam in Muni's Twin Peaks Tunnel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the hearing of the board's Government Audit and Oversight Committee, Supervisor Norman Yee asked John Thomas, a San Francisco Public Works engineer and deputy director for infrastructure, whether the department notifies other city agencies about contractors that have had safety issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Is this information used for future potential contracts?\" Yee asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If, for instance, you see a pattern and it doesn't really stop and they haven't done any corrective actions, do you use that information to say 'you know something, we can't be giving this particular company a new contract?\" Yee inquired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At this point, no, it is not used as part of the selection process,\" Thomas answered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11700900\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/NormanYee-800x524.jpg\" alt=\"Supervisor Norman Yee called a hearing last week in response to questions that arose after a worker's death near West Portal Station.\" width=\"800\" height=\"524\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11700900\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/NormanYee-800x524.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/NormanYee-160x105.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/NormanYee-960x629.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/NormanYee-240x157.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/NormanYee-375x246.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/NormanYee-520x341.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/NormanYee.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Norman Yee called a hearing last week in response to questions that arose after a worker's death near West Portal Station. \u003ccite>(Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When asked about Thomas' remarks, Public Works spokeswoman Rachel Gordon said city departments have begun a pilot project using an internal website, completed last February, where they can store reviews of construction jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, records from eight projects have been entered in the site. City officials plan to add more in the coming months as the project continues to roll out, Gordon said in emailed responses to questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said documenting city officials' concerns is key.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The issue is largely about making a fair decision that is supported by documentation of poor performance,\" she said. \"If a department doesn't award a contract because of its concerns about the ability of the contractor to perform, it must backup that decision with documentation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gordon also pushed back against the idea that city agencies don't have access to safety information about contractors that bid on city projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Departments may ask about safe work history on past work for the city,\" Gordon said in an email. \"The department may check references by asking its employees or those of other city departments,\" Gordon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee called last week's hearing in response to questions that arose after Ricketts' death near West Portal Station.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11686976/muni-chief-downplays-safety-concerns-in-sf-tunnel-project-after-worker-death\">Muni Chief Downplays Safety Concerns in S.F. Tunnel Project After Worker's Death\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11686976/muni-chief-downplays-safety-concerns-in-sf-tunnel-project-after-worker-death\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/tunnel-1180x592.png\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In the days after the incident, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11686976/muni-chief-downplays-safety-concerns-in-sf-tunnel-project-after-worker-death\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news reports disclosed\u003c/a> his employer, Oakland-based Shimmick Construction, was tied to dozens of workplace violations over the last decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But prior to beginning work on the Twin Peaks Tunnel, the company and its partner on the project, Con-Quest, answered \"no\" on a San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority questionnaire that asked whether they had been cited for any serious and willful violations by California's Division of Occupational Safety and Health, or Cal/OSHA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the alleged violations for which Cal/OSHA has fined Shimmick were \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/pls/imis/establishment.inspection_detail?id=1192534.015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">three serious infractions\u003c/a> involving the death of a forklift driver in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shimmick, which faces a $46,800 penalty in the case, is contesting Cal/OSHA's findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Aaron Peskin said city agencies that use similar questionnaires should change the way they ask about contractor safety records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It can take years to close out a case,\" Peskin said. He urged all departments to ask contractors to list all workplace safety incidents they're associated with, even those still under investigation or appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Siew-Chin Yeong, SFMTA's director of capital programs and construction, said that her agency wants to require contractors to submit annual summaries of work-related injuries when bidding on a project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Yee pointed out that on many city construction jobs, the project's main contractor hires smaller companies to do large parts of the work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"How do we control that?\" Yee asked, looking for city rules on how the agencies track the safety records of subcontractors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The general contractor is fully responsible for the safety site including the safety of the sub-contractor,\" Yeong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the focus of the hearing and of previous news coverage has focused on weaknesses in vetting the safety records of contractors, it should be noted that city officials in recent years have been meeting to collaborate more efficiently on what they know about construction companies, emphasized Nicholas King, a process improvement analyst for Public Works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know that you've heard from three departments today, and you guys are asking questions and the public's here and the press is watching,\" King said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just want to be clear that we're all on the same page, and we're all on the same team, and we're all committed to safety.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11699521/after-workers-death-on-muni-project-s-f-grapples-with-how-to-vet-contractor-safety-records","authors":["258"],"categories":["news_8","news_13","news_1397"],"tags":["news_19904","news_320","news_24364","news_22456","news_38","news_1334","news_23007"],"featImg":"news_11700887","label":"news"},"news_11696396":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11696396","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11696396","score":null,"sort":[1538647207000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"this-is-only-a-test-san-franciscos-tuesday-noon-siren","title":"This Is Only a Test: San Francisco's Tuesday Noon Siren","publishDate":1538647207,"format":"audio","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>If you live or work in San Francisco, you're likely familiar with the siren that goes off every Tuesday at noon. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My entire life I’ve been hearing this siren,\" says \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/baycurious\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> listener Jennifer Corbell, who grew up in the Sunset District. \"Even if I get up in the morning and I know it’s Tuesday, it doesn’t really click for me until I hear that alarm going off.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corbell wanted to know more about the siren, so she asked Bay Curious to look into its history and how it works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen below or read \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/10/04/7-things-to-know-about-san-franciscos-tuesday-noon-siren\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">7 Things to Know About San Francisco's Tuesday Noon Siren\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/new-bay-curious/2018/10/NoonSiren.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/noonsiren.jpg\" Title=\"This Is Only a Test: San Francisco's Tuesday Noon Siren\" program=\"Bay Curious\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"This weekly siren test even has its own Yelp page. Average rating: 4 stars.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1538627015,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":6,"wordCount":160},"headData":{"title":"This Is Only a Test: San Francisco's Tuesday Noon Siren | KQED","description":"This weekly siren test even has its own Yelp page. 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Cameron, a 65-year-old volunteer in the neighborhood, asked the drug user to move across the street. He knew hundreds of schoolchildren soon would be walking by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Guys were sitting there snorting coke and smoking dope and didn't want to move,” said Cameron, who grew up in the Tenderloin. “You know, they want time. But we got these babies coming by!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cameron is one of about two dozen volunteers with Safe Passage, a citizens’ effort that transforms the Tenderloin’s sidewalks into a more kid-friendly environment a couple of hours every schoolday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2018/06/RomeroSafePassageTenderloin.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-800x528.jpg\" Title=\"Creating a Safe Passage for Kids in San Francisco's Gritty Tenderloin\" program=\"The California Report\"] \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Tenderloin is notorious for the homelessness on its streets and open drug use and sales. But it is also one of the few affordable neighborhoods left in one of the most expensive cities in the nation, and is home to hundreds of low-income and immigrant families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. census figures report 2,200 children live in the Tenderloin, but local nonprofits estimate there are \u003ca href=\"https://www.bawcc.org/pdf/Survey_of_TL_Family_and_Children's_Issues_2016.pdf\">more than 3,000 \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.bawcc.org/pdf/Survey_of_TL_Family_and_Children's_Issues_2016.pdf\">kids\u003c/a> in that neighborhood, between Union Square and the Civic Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, the Tenderloin has attracted immigrant families and workers because of its high density of affordable housing. In a city where median rents have skyrocketed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/san-francisco-ca/home-values/\">nearly $4,200\u003c/a> a month, the Tenderloin represents an island of affordable studios, one-bedroom apartments and residential hotels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a whole different world than the rest of San Francisco,” said Randy Shaw, who directs the nonprofit Tenderloin Housing Clinic and has worked in the neighborhood for about 40 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 80 percent of the housing units in the neighborhood are under rent control or permanently affordable, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.tndc.org/wp-content/uploads/TLDWDI-Action-Plan-June-2017.pdf\">a report\u003c/a> by the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11671750\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11671750\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-800x528.jpg\" alt=\"Margarita Mena, 60, stops traffic for pedestrians in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood on April 24, 2018. Mena, a Tenderloin resident, helped start the Safe Passage program.\" width=\"800\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-800x528.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-1020x673.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-1200x791.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-1180x778.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-960x633.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-240x158.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-375x247.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-520x343.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Margarita Mena, 60, stops traffic for pedestrians in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood on April 24, 2018. Mena, a Tenderloin resident, helped start the Safe Passage program. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Working-class families worried about safety in the Tenderloin have few options to move to other parts of the city where rents are higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard for an adult to live here, and I don’t recommend it for kids,” said Margarita Mena, 60, who lives with three grandchildren in an apartment building for low-income families. “Children see people shooting up, people lying on the street, and syringes thrown out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over 10 years ago, Mena and other moms in the Tenderloin began meeting with the goal of making streets safer for kids walking to and from three schools in the neighborhood. That push became Safe Passage.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It's been fantastic. I've seen improvement in the cleanliness of the street. I've noticed that there's less crime and calls for service.'\u003ccite>Eric Robinson, SFPD\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“We said, ‘We need to do something!’ ” said Mena, who has lived in the Tenderloin since she immigrated to the United States from Mexico. “We need for somebody to be on the corners when kids are off school, helping them cross the street.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During morning and afternoon shifts, Mena, Cameron and other volunteers head out in pairs to their assigned corners. The walkie-talkies they carry frequently crackle with short messages about what’s happening on their route -- if human waste litters sidewalks, or if people hanging out on the corners need medical attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “corner captains” are easily recognizable because of the neon-green vests they wear as they hold up stop signs and help kids cross the busy intersections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Safe Passage volunteers, most of whom are Tenderloin residents and parents, are now familiar faces to 8-year old Diana Eusebio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We always say hi because they are nice and because they're helping us not to be crushed by a car,” said Diana, a student at Tenderloin Community Elementary School. “They actually really make the streets nicer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11671789\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11671789\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-800x566.jpg\" alt=\"Kate Robinson (R) greets school children after Safe Passage volunteers cleared the Tenderloin sidewalk of people openly using drugs on April 24, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-800x566.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-160x113.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-1020x721.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-1200x849.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-1180x835.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-960x679.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-240x170.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-375x265.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-520x368.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kate Robinson (R) greets schoolchildren after Safe Passage volunteers cleared the Tenderloin sidewalk of people openly using drugs on April 24, 2018. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some of the Tenderloin streets that Diana and her classmates walk on are considered some of San Francisco’s biggest \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4489309-LEAD-BaselineCrimeAnalysis-PolicyCommittee-5-22-17.html\">“drug hotspots”\u003c/a> by city agencies. But when Safe Passage volunteers are out there, the community sees improved safety, said San Francisco police Officer Eric Robinson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it's been fantastic. I've seen improvement in the cleanliness of the street. I've noticed that there's less crime and calls for service,” said Robinson, who walks the Tenderloin beat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Often, a couple of SFPD officers are visible along the Safe Passage route to help keep “a positive atmosphere,” said Kate Robinson, who directs Safe Passage and has no relation to Officer Robinson. It’s an example of the many collaborations people in the program have built over the years to be effective in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11665527/why-hasnt-the-tenderloin-gentrified-like-the-rest-of-san-francisco\">Why Hasn't the Tenderloin Gentrified Like the Rest of San Francisco?\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11665527/why-hasnt-the-tenderloin-gentrified-like-the-rest-of-san-francisco\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/20171217_113056-e1525128581450-1180x885.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people who don't spend time in the Tenderloin, they only see trash on the ground or people openly shooting up. And yes, we do grapple with that,” said Kate Robinson, who has worked in the area for over a decade. “But it has amazed me, you know, just how much community is here and how amazing the people who live here are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The experience of standing at the same corner for about six years has shown her a different side of the Tenderloin. She points to the time she witnessed a child falling out of a fourth-floor window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A group of drug dealers caught her and saved her life and nobody would know that story. We were standing there and we saw this happen,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout its history, the Tenderloin has welcomed working people and, since the 1970s, many immigrant families. The neighborhood has also been an area for vice, said Katie Conry, executive director of the nonprofit Tenderloin Museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That looked really different in the ’20s, ’30s and ’40s. It was more glitzy. The primary underground economy was gambling, but it’s still a vice area in a lot of ways,” said Conry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11671791\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11671791\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5-800x485.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5-800x485.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5-160x97.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5-1020x619.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5-1200x728.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5-1180x716.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5-960x583.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5-240x146.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5-375x228.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5-520x316.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5.jpg 1648w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Safe Passage volunteer Michael Cameron takes pride in helping children navigate the Tenderloin. “I love what I do, and I really feel like I make a difference,” said Cameron, 65. \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An often misunderstood or ignored neighborhood, the Tenderloin is an area where larger issues collide, such as income inequality and the housing crisis, said Conry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About half of the \u003ca href=\"http://hsh.sfgov.org/research-reports/san-francisco-homeless-point-in-time-count-reports/\">city’s homeless population\u003c/a> -- and services for them -- are concentrated in the Tenderloin and a neighboring area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Tenderloin is this place that’s really empathetic and supportive that didn’t cause all these issues to happen,” said Conry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As San Francisco and the state wrestle with those huge problems, Margarita Mena said she’s proud of what she and other residents have accomplished with Safe Passage, which is now part of the nonprofit Tenderloin Community Benefit District. She will continue volunteering for the program as long as she lives in the Tenderloin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes you feel good, because you are doing something good for children and for your community,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Farida Jhabvala Romero reports on immigration, economic opportunity, and race and ethnicity for KQED.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/californiadream/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Dream series\u003c/a> is a statewide media collaboration of CALmatters, KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the James Irvine Foundation and the College Futures Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11660142\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1867\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner.jpg 1867w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-160x44.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-800x219.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-1020x280.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-1180x324.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-960x263.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-240x66.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-375x103.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-520x143.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1867px) 100vw, 1867px\">\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The Tenderloin is notorious for drug use and sales on its streets. But it's also one of the few affordable neighborhoods left in one of the nation’s most expensive cities.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1528475499,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":34,"wordCount":1361},"headData":{"title":"Creating a Safe Passage for Kids in San Francisco's Gritty Tenderloin | KQED","description":"The Tenderloin is notorious for drug use and sales on its streets. 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Cameron, a 65-year-old volunteer in the neighborhood, asked the drug user to move across the street. He knew hundreds of schoolchildren soon would be walking by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Guys were sitting there snorting coke and smoking dope and didn't want to move,” said Cameron, who grew up in the Tenderloin. “You know, they want time. But we got these babies coming by!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cameron is one of about two dozen volunteers with Safe Passage, a citizens’ effort that transforms the Tenderloin’s sidewalks into a more kid-friendly environment a couple of hours every schoolday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"audio","attributes":{"named":{"src":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2018/06/RomeroSafePassageTenderloin.mp3","image":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-800x528.jpg","title":"Creating a Safe Passage for Kids in San Francisco's Gritty Tenderloin","program":"The California Report","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Tenderloin is notorious for the homelessness on its streets and open drug use and sales. But it is also one of the few affordable neighborhoods left in one of the most expensive cities in the nation, and is home to hundreds of low-income and immigrant families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. census figures report 2,200 children live in the Tenderloin, but local nonprofits estimate there are \u003ca href=\"https://www.bawcc.org/pdf/Survey_of_TL_Family_and_Children's_Issues_2016.pdf\">more than 3,000 \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.bawcc.org/pdf/Survey_of_TL_Family_and_Children's_Issues_2016.pdf\">kids\u003c/a> in that neighborhood, between Union Square and the Civic Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, the Tenderloin has attracted immigrant families and workers because of its high density of affordable housing. In a city where median rents have skyrocketed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/san-francisco-ca/home-values/\">nearly $4,200\u003c/a> a month, the Tenderloin represents an island of affordable studios, one-bedroom apartments and residential hotels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a whole different world than the rest of San Francisco,” said Randy Shaw, who directs the nonprofit Tenderloin Housing Clinic and has worked in the neighborhood for about 40 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 80 percent of the housing units in the neighborhood are under rent control or permanently affordable, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.tndc.org/wp-content/uploads/TLDWDI-Action-Plan-June-2017.pdf\">a report\u003c/a> by the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11671750\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11671750\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-800x528.jpg\" alt=\"Margarita Mena, 60, stops traffic for pedestrians in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood on April 24, 2018. Mena, a Tenderloin resident, helped start the Safe Passage program.\" width=\"800\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-800x528.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-1020x673.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-1200x791.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-1180x778.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-960x633.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-240x158.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-375x247.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/MenaTL-520x343.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Margarita Mena, 60, stops traffic for pedestrians in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood on April 24, 2018. Mena, a Tenderloin resident, helped start the Safe Passage program. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Working-class families worried about safety in the Tenderloin have few options to move to other parts of the city where rents are higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard for an adult to live here, and I don’t recommend it for kids,” said Margarita Mena, 60, who lives with three grandchildren in an apartment building for low-income families. “Children see people shooting up, people lying on the street, and syringes thrown out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over 10 years ago, Mena and other moms in the Tenderloin began meeting with the goal of making streets safer for kids walking to and from three schools in the neighborhood. That push became Safe Passage.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It's been fantastic. I've seen improvement in the cleanliness of the street. I've noticed that there's less crime and calls for service.'\u003ccite>Eric Robinson, SFPD\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“We said, ‘We need to do something!’ ” said Mena, who has lived in the Tenderloin since she immigrated to the United States from Mexico. “We need for somebody to be on the corners when kids are off school, helping them cross the street.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During morning and afternoon shifts, Mena, Cameron and other volunteers head out in pairs to their assigned corners. The walkie-talkies they carry frequently crackle with short messages about what’s happening on their route -- if human waste litters sidewalks, or if people hanging out on the corners need medical attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “corner captains” are easily recognizable because of the neon-green vests they wear as they hold up stop signs and help kids cross the busy intersections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Safe Passage volunteers, most of whom are Tenderloin residents and parents, are now familiar faces to 8-year old Diana Eusebio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We always say hi because they are nice and because they're helping us not to be crushed by a car,” said Diana, a student at Tenderloin Community Elementary School. “They actually really make the streets nicer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11671789\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11671789\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-800x566.jpg\" alt=\"Kate Robinson (R) greets school children after Safe Passage volunteers cleared the Tenderloin sidewalk of people openly using drugs on April 24, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-800x566.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-160x113.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-1020x721.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-1200x849.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-1180x835.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-960x679.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-240x170.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-375x265.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin4-520x368.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kate Robinson (R) greets schoolchildren after Safe Passage volunteers cleared the Tenderloin sidewalk of people openly using drugs on April 24, 2018. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some of the Tenderloin streets that Diana and her classmates walk on are considered some of San Francisco’s biggest \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4489309-LEAD-BaselineCrimeAnalysis-PolicyCommittee-5-22-17.html\">“drug hotspots”\u003c/a> by city agencies. But when Safe Passage volunteers are out there, the community sees improved safety, said San Francisco police Officer Eric Robinson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it's been fantastic. I've seen improvement in the cleanliness of the street. I've noticed that there's less crime and calls for service,” said Robinson, who walks the Tenderloin beat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Often, a couple of SFPD officers are visible along the Safe Passage route to help keep “a positive atmosphere,” said Kate Robinson, who directs Safe Passage and has no relation to Officer Robinson. It’s an example of the many collaborations people in the program have built over the years to be effective in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11665527/why-hasnt-the-tenderloin-gentrified-like-the-rest-of-san-francisco\">Why Hasn't the Tenderloin Gentrified Like the Rest of San Francisco?\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11665527/why-hasnt-the-tenderloin-gentrified-like-the-rest-of-san-francisco\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/20171217_113056-e1525128581450-1180x885.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people who don't spend time in the Tenderloin, they only see trash on the ground or people openly shooting up. And yes, we do grapple with that,” said Kate Robinson, who has worked in the area for over a decade. “But it has amazed me, you know, just how much community is here and how amazing the people who live here are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The experience of standing at the same corner for about six years has shown her a different side of the Tenderloin. She points to the time she witnessed a child falling out of a fourth-floor window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A group of drug dealers caught her and saved her life and nobody would know that story. We were standing there and we saw this happen,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout its history, the Tenderloin has welcomed working people and, since the 1970s, many immigrant families. The neighborhood has also been an area for vice, said Katie Conry, executive director of the nonprofit Tenderloin Museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That looked really different in the ’20s, ’30s and ’40s. It was more glitzy. The primary underground economy was gambling, but it’s still a vice area in a lot of ways,” said Conry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11671791\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11671791\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5-800x485.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5-800x485.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5-160x97.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5-1020x619.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5-1200x728.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5-1180x716.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5-960x583.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5-240x146.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5-375x228.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5-520x316.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/Tenderloin5.jpg 1648w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Safe Passage volunteer Michael Cameron takes pride in helping children navigate the Tenderloin. “I love what I do, and I really feel like I make a difference,” said Cameron, 65. \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An often misunderstood or ignored neighborhood, the Tenderloin is an area where larger issues collide, such as income inequality and the housing crisis, said Conry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About half of the \u003ca href=\"http://hsh.sfgov.org/research-reports/san-francisco-homeless-point-in-time-count-reports/\">city’s homeless population\u003c/a> -- and services for them -- are concentrated in the Tenderloin and a neighboring area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Tenderloin is this place that’s really empathetic and supportive that didn’t cause all these issues to happen,” said Conry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As San Francisco and the state wrestle with those huge problems, Margarita Mena said she’s proud of what she and other residents have accomplished with Safe Passage, which is now part of the nonprofit Tenderloin Community Benefit District. She will continue volunteering for the program as long as she lives in the Tenderloin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes you feel good, because you are doing something good for children and for your community,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Farida Jhabvala Romero reports on immigration, economic opportunity, and race and ethnicity for KQED.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/californiadream/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Dream series\u003c/a> is a statewide media collaboration of CALmatters, KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the James Irvine Foundation and the College Futures Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11660142\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1867\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner.jpg 1867w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-160x44.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-800x219.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-1020x280.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-1180x324.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-960x263.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-240x66.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-375x103.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-520x143.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1867px) 100vw, 1867px\">\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11671736/creating-a-safe-passage-for-kids-in-san-franciscos-gritty-tenderloin","authors":["8659"],"programs":["news_72"],"series":["news_21879"],"categories":["news_1758","news_457","news_6266","news_1169","news_8"],"tags":["news_21434","news_2043","news_2587","news_4020","news_1585","news_22456","news_38","news_3181","news_150"],"featImg":"news_11671745","label":"news_72"},"news_11662641":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11662641","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11662641","score":null,"sort":[1523970031000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"tesla-says-its-factory-is-safer-but-it-left-injuries-off-the-books","title":"Tesla Says Its Factory Is Safer, but It Left Injuries Off the Books","publishDate":1523970031,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, a nonprofit news organization based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Learn more at \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/\">revealnews.org\u003c/a> and subscribe to the Reveal podcast, produced with PRX, at \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/podcast\">revealnews.org/podcast\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]I[/dropcap]nside Tesla’s electric car factory, giant red robots – some named for X-Men characters – heave car parts in the air, while workers wearing black toil on aluminum car bodies. Forklifts and tuggers zip by on gray-painted floors, differentiated from pedestrian walkways by another shade of gray.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s one color, though, that some of Tesla’s former safety experts wanted to see more of: yellow – the traditional hue of caution used to mark hazards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concerned about bone-crunching collisions and the lack of clearly marked pedestrian lanes at the Fremont, California, plant, the general assembly line’s then-lead safety professional went to her boss, who she said told her, “Elon does not like the color yellow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The melding of cutting-edge technology and world-saving vision is Tesla Inc.’s big draw. Many, including Justine White, the safety lead, went to work there inspired by Elon Musk, a CEO with star power and now a\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/science/shortcuts/2018/feb/07/forget-the-car-in-space-why-elon-musks-reusable-rockets-are-more-than-a-publicity-stunt\"> groundbreaking rocket\u003c/a> in space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What she and some of her colleagues found, they said, was a chaotic factory floor where style and speed trumped safety. Musk’s name often was invoked to justify shortcuts and shoot down concerns, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under fire for mounting injuries, Tesla recently\u003ca href=\"https://www.tesla.com/blog/becoming-safest-car-factory-world\"> touted a sharp drop\u003c/a> in its injury rate for 2017, which it says came down to meet the auto industry average of about 6.2 injuries per 100 workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But things are not always as they seem at Tesla. An \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/article/tesla-says-its-factory-is-safer-but-it-left-injuries-off-the-books\">investigation\u003c/a> by \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org/\">Reveal\u003c/a> from The Center for Investigative Reporting found that Tesla has failed to report some of its serious injuries on legally mandated reports, making the company’s injury numbers look better than they actually are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11662656\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-employee-injury-rate-final-2-800x613.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"613\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-employee-injury-rate-final-2-800x613.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-employee-injury-rate-final-2-160x123.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-employee-injury-rate-final-2-1020x782.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-employee-injury-rate-final-2-1180x904.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-employee-injury-rate-final-2-960x736.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-employee-injury-rate-final-2-240x184.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-employee-injury-rate-final-2-375x287.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-employee-injury-rate-final-2-520x399.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-employee-injury-rate-final-2.png 1190w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last April, Tarik Logan suffered debilitating headaches from the fumes of a toxic glue he had to use at the plant. He texted his mom: “I’m n hella pain foreal something ain’t right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The searing pain became so unbearable he couldn’t work, and it plagued him for weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Logan’s inhalation injury, as it was diagnosed, never made it onto the official injury logs that state and federal law requires companies to keep. Neither did reports from other factory workers of sprains, strains and repetitive stress injuries from piecing together Tesla’s sleek cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, company officials labeled the injuries personal medical issues or minor incidents requiring only first aid, according to internal company records obtained by Reveal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Undercounting injuries is one symptom of a more fundamental problem at Tesla: The company has put its manufacturing of electric cars above safety concerns, according to five former members of its environment, health and safety team who left the company last year. That, they said, has put workers unnecessarily in harm’s way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point, White said she warned superiors about a potential explosion hazard but was told they would defer to production managers because fixing the problem would require stopping the production line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From September 2016 to January 2017, White oversaw safety for thousands of workers on Tesla’s general assembly line, in charge of responding to injuries, reviewing injury records, teaching safety classes and assessing the factory for hazards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything took a back seat to production,” White said. “It’s just a matter of time before somebody gets killed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla, worth about $50 billion, employs more than 10,000 workers at its Fremont factory. Alongside the company’s remarkable rise, workers have been sliced by machinery, crushed by forklifts, burned in electrical explosions and sprayed with molten metal. Tesla recorded \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4419499-Tesla-300A-2017.html\">722 injuries\u003c/a> last year, about two a day. The rate of serious injuries, requiring time off or a work restriction, was 30 percent worse than the previous year’s industry average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frantic growth, constant changes and lax rules, combined with a CEO whom senior managers were afraid to cross, created an atmosphere in which few dared to stand up for worker safety, the former environment, health and safety team members told Reveal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in addition to yellow, Musk was said to dislike too many signs in the factory and the warning beeps forklifts make when backing up, former team members said. His preferences, they said, were well known and led to cutting back on those standard safety signals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If someone said, ‘Elon doesn’t like something,’ you were concerned because you could lose your job,” said Susan Rigmaiden, former environmental compliance manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few months into her job, White became so alarmed that she \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4419515-Justine-Email-to-HR.html\">wrote\u003c/a> to a human resources manager that “the risk of injury is too high. People are getting hurt every day and near-hit incidents where people are getting almost crushed or hit by cars is unacceptable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day, she \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4416595-Justine-White-Email-to-Sam-Teller.html\">emailed\u003c/a> Sam Teller, Musk’s chief of staff, that safety team leaders were failing to address the hazards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know what can keep a person up at night regarding safety,” she wrote. “I must tell you that I can’t sleep here at Tesla.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she never heard back from Musk’s office. She transferred departments and quit a couple of months later, disillusioned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her March 2017 \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4437759-Resignation-Letter-Excerpt.html\">resignation letter,\u003c/a> White recounted the time she told her boss, Seth Woody, “that the plant layout was extremely dangerous to pedestrians.” Woody, head of the safety team, told her “that Elon didn’t want signs, anything yellow (like caution tape) or to wear safety shoes in the plant” and acknowledged it “was a mess,” she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She sent the letter directly to Musk and the head of human resources at the time – to no response, she said. Woody did not respond to inquiries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662661\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662661\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/031118_TESLA_DennisCruz_02-1024x683-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Tesla quality inspector Dennis Cruz has had a series of injuries that took him off the production line. At one point, living on workers’ compensation payments because of work-induced tendinitis, he ended up living in his car, unable to afford rent.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/031118_TESLA_DennisCruz_02-1024x683-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/031118_TESLA_DennisCruz_02-1024x683-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/031118_TESLA_DennisCruz_02-1024x683-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/031118_TESLA_DennisCruz_02-1024x683-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/031118_TESLA_DennisCruz_02-1024x683-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/031118_TESLA_DennisCruz_02-1024x683-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/031118_TESLA_DennisCruz_02-1024x683-520x347.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/031118_TESLA_DennisCruz_02-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tesla quality inspector Dennis Cruz has had a series of injuries that took him off the production line. At one point, living on workers’ compensation payments because of work-induced tendinitis, he ended up living in his car, unable to afford rent. \u003ccite>(Emily Harger/Reveal)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tesla officials dismissed all of White’s concerns as unsubstantiated. They insisted that the company records injuries accurately and cares deeply about the safety of its workers. As proof, company officials said a recent anonymous internal survey found 82 percent of employees agreed that “Tesla is committed to my health, safety and well-being.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before publication of this story, a Tesla spokesman sent a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4432415-Tesla-Statement.html\">statement\u003c/a> accusing Reveal of being a tool in an ongoing unionization drive and portraying “a completely false picture of Tesla and what it is actually like to work here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In our view, what they portray as investigative journalism is in fact an ideologically motivated attack by an extremist organization working directly with union supporters to create a calculated disinformation campaign against Tesla,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla’s spokesman also sent photos of rails and posts in the factory that were painted yellow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reveal interviewed more than three dozen current and former employees and managers and reviewed hundreds of pages of documents. Some of the workers who spoke to Reveal have supported the unionization effort, while many others – including safety professionals – had no involvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Chaotic Factory Floor\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On one hand, Tesla boasts state-of-the-art machinery that makes it “like working for Iron Man,” as one former employee described it. On the other, the company relied on hoists that weren’t engineered or inspected before they were used to lift heavy car parts, according to a former safety team member, resulting in repeated accidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662666\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662666\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent-800x529.jpg\" alt=\"At Tesla’s electric car factory in Fremont, CEO Elon Musk’s name often was invoked to justify shortcuts and shoot down safety concerns, former safety experts for the company say. \" width=\"800\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent-800x529.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent-1020x675.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent-1200x794.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent-1180x781.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent-960x635.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent-240x159.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent-375x248.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent-520x344.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At Tesla’s electric car factory in Fremont, CEO Elon Musk’s name often was invoked to justify shortcuts and shoot down safety concerns, former safety experts for the company say. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The company is under immense pressure to ramp up manufacturing of the new Model 3 sedan, its first mass-market vehicle at $35,000. Musk initially said Tesla would be producing\u003ca href=\"https://mashable.com/2017/10/03/tesla-model-3-production-woes-analysis/#KH37hHQFemqw\"> 20,000 of them per month\u003c/a> by the end of 2017, but the company \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2018/04/03/tesla-misses-model-3-production-goal-once-again/?utm_term=.6679155b2d34\">just missed\u003c/a> its scaled-back promise to produce half that number.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla is often in a state of frenzied production. Former employees said they faced 12-hour workdays, faulty equipment and paltry training as they scrambled to come up with workarounds on the fly to get cars out the door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hustle meant that health and safety protocols could literally get left in the dust. Last year, construction workers cut through concrete to build the new Model 3 assembly line, spreading silica dust – which can cause cancer – without containing and testing it first, Rigmaiden and two other former members of the health and safety team said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the high stakes for life and limb, the safety professionals maintain safety training has been woefully inadequate. The company said all workers receive at least four days of training. But new employees often were pulled out of training early to fill spots on the factory floor, White and another former safety team member said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Team members were reluctant to speak to reporters, but said they agreed to in order to help improve conditions for current and future Tesla workers. Some asked to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals or hurting their careers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview, Tesla Chief People Officer Gaby Toledano, who joined the company in May, repeatedly questioned the motives of the former health and safety professionals and suggested they might have been “failing at their own job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toledano touted the hiring in October of Laurie Shelby as Tesla’s first vice president for environment, health and safety as an improvement in itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anybody who walks through our doors into this factory is our responsibility, and we care about them,” said Shelby, formerly safety vice president at aluminum manufacturer Alcoa. “I have a passion for safety and it’s about caring.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla disputed each of Reveal’s findings. The company said that it had no information that workers were exposed to silica dust and that it does regular air monitoring. It said that while some hoists did fail and injure workers, it was not due to a lack of engineering or inspections, and they have been improved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662669\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662669\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9143-1024x683-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Tesla officials Laurie Shelby (L) and Gaby Toledano read the concerns of then-safety lead Justine White, who emailed CEO Elon Musk’s chief of staff in 2016. “I know what can keep a person up at night regarding safety,” she wrote. “I must tell you that I can’t sleep here at Tesla.” Tesla says her concerns were unsubstantiated. \" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9143-1024x683-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9143-1024x683-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9143-1024x683-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9143-1024x683-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9143-1024x683-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9143-1024x683-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9143-1024x683-520x347.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9143-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tesla officials Laurie Shelby (L) and Gaby Toledano read the concerns of then-safety lead Justine White, who emailed CEO Elon Musk’s chief of staff in 2016. “I know what can keep a person up at night regarding safety,” she wrote. “I must tell you that I can’t sleep here at Tesla.” Tesla says her concerns were unsubstantiated. \u003ccite>(Paul Kuroda/Reveal)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Toledano and Shelby said they had never heard of Musk’s purported aesthetic preferences and pointed out that the factory does have some yellow. Both distanced themselves from what might have happened before their tenure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all injured workers have given up on Tesla, either. Dennis Cruz has had his share of injuries, yet he still wants to get back to the production line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point, out on workers’ compensation because of work-induced tendinitis, Cruz ended up living in his car, unable to afford rent. Then, in late 2016, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4436216-SDS-BM4601.html\">toxic\u003c/a> adhesive many workers complain about got in his eye, damaging his cornea. And in September, as a quality inspector, Cruz says he put out a fire that broke out on a car body, inhaling fumes from burning chemicals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cruz, 42, is on light duty as he struggles with shortness of breath, coughing spells and headaches. But he wants to provide for his family, apply his skills and get promoted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t do that on workers’ comp. I can’t do that away from the factory,” he said. “That’s why I push to go back. I push to go back into the fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Discrepancies in Injury Counts\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In Tesla’s internal injury tracking system, a supervisor wrote that a worker couldn’t come to work one day in February 2017 because “his left arm was in pain from installing Wiper motors during his shift.” One worker “fainted and hit head on floor” because “team member was working in a group setting and became uncomfortably hot.” Another employee, a supervisor noted, was “highly relied upon at this workstation” but injured her shoulder from repetitive motion due to an “Unfriendly Ergonomic Process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla is required by law to report every work-related injury that results in days away from work, job restrictions or medical treatment beyond first aid. But those injuries were labeled “personal medical” cases, meaning work had nothing to do with them. So they weren’t counted when Tesla tallied its injuries on legally mandated reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662683\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662683\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Y5I6227-1024x683-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"New Tesla employees learn how to use tools safely in a training session at the Fremont factory. State safety regulators have cited Tesla eight times since 2013 for deficient training, including twice in the last year. \" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Y5I6227-1024x683-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Y5I6227-1024x683-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Y5I6227-1024x683-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Y5I6227-1024x683-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Y5I6227-1024x683-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Y5I6227-1024x683-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Y5I6227-1024x683-520x347.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Y5I6227-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">New Tesla employees learn how to use tools safely in a training session at the Fremont factory. State safety regulators have cited Tesla eight times since 2013 for deficient training, including twice in the last year. \u003ccite>(Paul Kuroda/Reveal)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The list of the uncounted goes on. One worker had back spasms when reaching for boxes, one sprained her back carrying something to a work table and one got a pinch in his back from bending over to apply sealer and couldn’t walk off the pain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By law, if something at work contributed to an injury – even if work wasn’t the only cause – the injury \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/t8/14300_5.html\">must be counted\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A former Tesla safety professional, however, said the company systematically undercounted injuries by mislabeling them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I saw injuries on there like broken bones and lacerations that they were saying were not recordable” as injuries, said the safety professional, who asked to remain anonymous. “I saw a lot of stuff that was like, ‘Wow, this is crazy.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reveal compared records from Tesla’s internal tracking system, obtained from a source, with the official logs, which were requested by an employee and provided to Reveal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a dozen examples provided to the company by Reveal, Tesla stood by its decision to not count them. It said workers may have thought they were injured because of their jobs, and supervisors may have assumed the same. But later, Tesla said, a medical professional – sometimes contracted or affiliated with the company – determined there was no connection to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel very strongly,” Shelby said. “We are doing proper recordkeeping here at Tesla.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reveal also provided Tesla’s internal descriptions of the injuries, along with the company’s case-by-case response, to Doug Parker, executive director of Worksafe, an Oakland-based organization that \u003ca href=\"http://worksafe.typepad.com/files/worksafe_tesla5_24.pdf\">previously analyzed\u003c/a> Tesla’s official injury logs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The examples you’ve given me are concerning, troubling,” he said. “They suggest that Tesla isn’t reporting all the workplace injuries that they should be reporting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen to the podcast:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/429374469&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health has cited Tesla for more than 40 violations since 2013. Tesla’s rate of serious injuries that required time off or job restrictions was\u003ca href=\"http://worksafe.org/file_download/inline/83a169a1-2af7-4c2e-81a5-21b6965ff996\"> 83 percent higher\u003c/a> than the industry in 2016. Since then, however, Tesla says it has turned things around on its way to “\u003ca href=\"https://www.tesla.com/blog/becoming-safest-car-factory-world\">becoming the safest car factory in the world\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Musk claimed in a \u003ca href=\"https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/24/elon-musk-addresses-working-condition-claims-in-tesla-staff-wide-email/\">staffwide email\u003c/a> and at a \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/06/06/elon-musk-says-tesla-is-on-its-way-to-lowering-employees-injury-rate/\">shareholder meeting\u003c/a> that the company’s injury rate was much better than the industry average. A company \u003ca href=\"https://www.tesla.com/blog/creating-the-safest-car-factory-in-the-world\">blog post\u003c/a> said that to be average would be “to go backwards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then Tesla apparently did hit reverse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our 2017 data showed that we are at industry average, so we’re happy about that,” Shelby said, explaining the earlier claims as a “snapshot in time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Musk also \u003ca href=\"https://electrek.co/2017/06/02/elon-musk-tesla-injury-factory/\">emailed\u003c/a> his staff last year saying he was meeting weekly with the safety team and “would like to meet every injured person as soon as they are well, so that I can understand from them exactly what we need to do to make it better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toledano said Musk did meet with some injured workers, but no longer meets weekly with the safety team because it isn’t necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now I can’t claim he’s met with every injured worker,” she said. “I think that’s absurd.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several former members of the environment, health and safety team said they had other reasons to doubt Tesla’s official numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company, for example, didn’t always count injuries among the plant’s temporary workers, they said. Tesla fills some of its factory positions with temp workers who later may be offered permanent jobs. Companies must count those injuries if they supervise the temps, as Tesla does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the law,” agreed Tesla’s Shelby. “Based on my review of our data, we’ve always done that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662689\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662689\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9150-1024x683-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Laurie Shelby, Tesla’s vice president for environment, health and safety, points to the principles of her department listed on a placard at the car plant in Fremont.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9150-1024x683-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9150-1024x683-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9150-1024x683-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9150-1024x683-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9150-1024x683-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9150-1024x683-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9150-1024x683-520x347.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9150-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laurie Shelby, Tesla’s vice president for environment, health and safety, points to the principles of her department listed on a placard at the car plant in Fremont. \u003ccite>(Paul Kuroda/Reveal)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At one point, though, White said she asked her supervisor why the injury rate seemed off, and he told her they weren’t counting temp worker injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They knew they were reporting incorrect numbers,” White said. “Those workers were being injured on the floor and that wasn’t being captured, and they knew that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla began to fix that problem in 2017, former employees said, but it’s unclear how consistently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11662690\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final-800x537.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final-800x537.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final-160x107.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final-1020x684.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final-1200x805.png 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final-1180x792.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final-960x644.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final-240x161.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final-375x252.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final-520x349.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final.png 1592w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After workers requested the company’s injury logs last year, Tesla\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4419502-Tesla-300A-2016-Amended.html\"> amended\u003c/a> its\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4419503-Tesla-300A-2016-initial.html\"> original\u003c/a> 2016 report to add 135 injuries that hadn’t been counted previously. The company said it changed the numbers after it discovered injuries that hadn’t been shared with Tesla by its temp agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Toxic Workplace Chemicals\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In April 2017, Tarik Logan – a temporary worker – was assigned to patch parts in Tesla’s battery packs with Henkel Loctite AA H3500. The powerful adhesive includes \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2016-09/documents/methyl-methacrylate.pdf\">toxic chemicals\u003c/a> that can cause \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4433392-LoctiteH3500-SDS-1808799.html\">allergic reactions and even genetic defects\u003c/a>. Logan and a former co-worker said they went through more than 100 tubes of the glue a day without adequate ventilation or protection from the fumes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First it brought dizziness, then headaches – the worst pain he’s ever felt, Logan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s a strong person,” said Toni Porter, his mother. “For him to cry out, it was terrifying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla referred Logan, then 23, to a medical clinic that diagnosed an “acute reaction to car adhesive glue causing headaches, dizziness, and some respiratory discomfort.” The doctor gave him prescription-strength painkillers and told him to avoid the glue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My head still hurt tho,” he texted Porter. “This Shit hurrrrrts!!!!!!!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These texts are among those sent by Tarik Logan to his mother, Toni Porter, while Logan worked at the Tesla factory in Fremont, California in April 2017:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11662690\" src=\"https://www.revealnews.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/texts34.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"537\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He missed work and ended up at the hospital multiple times, Logan and Porter said. Then Tesla declined to take him on as a permanent employee, citing attendance issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla, in response to Reveal’s inquiries, said it doesn’t agree with the doctor’s determination that Logan’s pain was work-related. In any case, Tesla said, it doesn’t count as an injury because it didn’t require any medical treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By law, however, just the prescription of pain medication – documented in medical records obtained by Reveal – \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/standardinterpretations/2007-02-06-1\">requires\u003c/a> that his injury be counted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Logan handled only a very small amount of the chemical and exposure levels were within standards, Tesla stated. The company also said Logan didn’t complain about headaches until he told a doctor a month later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That statement is contradicted by medical records and internal company records, which show that Logan’s supervisor put it in Tesla’s injury tracking system and Logan was diagnosed by a doctor a week after his headaches started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former safety team member who asked to remain anonymous said Tesla told workers that their reactions to workplace chemicals were personal medical problems instead of treating them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have employees at work that don’t know what they’re being exposed to, and nobody’s taking care of them,” the safety professional said. “It’s heartbreaking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662701\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662701\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_05-1024x679-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Eberley, 48, was diagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome in 2014. He injured his hand welding thousands of studs to car wheelhouses during nearly 12-hour days at Tesla.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_05-1024x679-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_05-1024x679-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_05-1024x679-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_05-1024x679-960x637.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_05-1024x679-240x159.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_05-1024x679-375x249.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_05-1024x679-520x345.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_05-1024x679.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Eberley, 48, was diagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome in 2014. He injured his hand welding thousands of studs to car wheelhouses during nearly 12-hour days at Tesla. \u003ccite>(Emily Harger/Reveal)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One worker is described in internal records as having gone to Tesla’s nurse “expressing concerns with the fumes in the area. Saying he feels like he is dying.” It was marked a personal medical issue, with a note that stated, “Beyond my skillset.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shelby, the safety vice president, said Tesla checks thoroughly for chemical exposures and “nowhere are we over any of the exposure limits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, regulators \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4390644-Inspection-1268303-Citations-Copy.html\">cited\u003c/a> the company for failing to “effectively assess the workplace” for chemical hazards, which Tesla is appealing.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Thrown to the Wolves’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If Tesla has been improving, it wasn’t fast enough for Alaa Alkhafagi, who joined Tesla in 2017 as an engineering technician servicing robots that spray paint on car bodies. Alkhafagi said he received no safety instruction specific to the paint department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, Alkhafagi, 27, said he was told to go underneath the painting booth to clear excess paint from a clogged hose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unsure of how to get down there, workers would pry up a piece of the metal flooring and jump in, he said. When he did, Alkhafagi’s foot got stuck in paint, his hand slipped and he fell forward, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4436269-Alkhafagi-Injury.html\">smashing\u003c/a> his head and arm. He ended up unable to make a fist or go back to his job, filing a workers’ compensation claim, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident didn’t end up on Tesla’s official injury logs. The company said it wasn’t recorded because Alkhafagi initially received only first aid. But his inability to go back to his normal work duties would mean that the injury should have been counted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s more than the accident,” Alkhafagi said. “They haven’t trained anyone properly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla said that after his injury, the company made sure only specially trained workers did that job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lack of adequate training was a problem throughout the factory, said Roger Croney, who oversaw workers in three different departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New employees with no factory experience were sent to Tesla’s die-casting operation – where aluminum is melted and molded into parts – without basic training specific to the job, said Croney, former associate manager in that department. Some didn’t know they’d be working with 1,200-degree molten metal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was far different from the General Motors plant in Ohio where Croney had worked for eight years, he said. So Croney took it upon himself to develop his own training program. A blast of liquid metal had burned his face and hands not long after he came to Tesla in 2012, and he took safety seriously. But other supervisors didn’t, Croney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662702\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662702\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AJ53579-1024x683-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Roger Croney oversaw workers in three different departments at Tesla. He took it upon himself to develop his own training program for new employees, whom he said were sometimes sent to work with no factory experience or basic training specific to the job. \" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AJ53579-1024x683-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AJ53579-1024x683-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AJ53579-1024x683-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AJ53579-1024x683-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AJ53579-1024x683-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AJ53579-1024x683-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AJ53579-1024x683-520x347.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AJ53579-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roger Croney oversaw workers in three different departments at Tesla. He took it upon himself to develop his own training program for new employees, whom he said were sometimes sent to work with no factory experience or basic training specific to the job. \u003ccite>(AJ Mast/Reveal)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“A lot of workers come in and they get thrown to the wolves,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Croney quit in March 2017 with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4432391-Roger-Croney-Resignation-Letter.html\">letter\u003c/a> alleging a pattern of discriminatory treatment. Croney, who is black, said he was passed over repeatedly by white people with less experience and then demoted to a supervisor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Tesla said Croney didn’t mention racial discrimination in his letter or exit interview. Croney has a pending claim of racial discrimination at Tesla with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State safety regulators have cited Tesla eight times since 2013 for deficient training, including twice in the last year, according to a Reveal review of records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla defended its training regimen, saying all new production employees get a day of orientation, a day of classroom instruction and two days of hands-on training in which they’re shown how to hold and use tools while avoiding injury. Workers building the Model 3 get an additional two days of virtual training on computers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Four days is pretty intensive,” Toledano said, “and then there’s ongoing training, so training is central.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Repetitive Stress Injuries\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Acknowledging that repetitive stress injuries are the most common way workers get hurt there, Tesla officials emphasize ergonomic improvements to the new Model 3 assembly line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We actually redesigned it so it’s safer for our employees to make,” Shelby said. “It’s super cool to see when it’s on the line how much easier it is to make the Model 3.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla, however, wouldn’t let reporters see that assembly line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662703\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662703\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory-800x528.jpg\" alt=\"Inside Tesla’s electric car factory in Fremont, the company is under immense pressure to ramp up production of the new Model 3 sedan, its first mass-market vehicle at $35,000.\" width=\"800\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory-800x528.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory-1020x673.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory-1200x791.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory-1180x778.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory-960x633.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory-240x158.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory-375x247.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory-520x343.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inside Tesla’s electric car factory in Fremont, the company is under immense pressure to ramp up production of the new Model 3 sedan, its first mass-market vehicle at $35,000. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When building Tesla’s other cars, former workers said they had to sacrifice their bodies to save time. Some workers, for example, lifted heavy car seats over their shoulders because the mechanical assists designed to ease the load were too slow, said Joel Barraza, a former production associate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People would carry a seat because they’d be like, ‘Oh, I gotta get this done.’ I personally carried a seat,” Barraza said. “They’re supposed to move. Move it on, move it on, keep the line going.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White, the former safety lead, also said workers sometimes lifted seats manually, but Tesla, in a statement, said it doesn’t happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barraza said he was fired along with hundreds of other workers last fall. Tesla said employees were\u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/10/13/4819750/\"> terminated en masse\u003c/a> due to performance issues, though some workers have argued they were \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/17/tesla-firings-former-and-current-employees-allege-layoffs.html\">cost-cutting layoffs\u003c/a> or used to \u003ca href=\"http://www.autonews.com/article/20171026/OEM01/171029793/tesla-uaw-labor-dispute-california\">punish union supporters\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662704\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662704\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_03-1024x682-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Eberley shows his scar from surgery after carpal tunnel syndrome left him unable to continue work at the Tesla factory in Fremont. He has been out of work for years. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_03-1024x682-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_03-1024x682-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_03-1024x682-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_03-1024x682-960x639.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_03-1024x682-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_03-1024x682-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_03-1024x682-520x346.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_03-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Eberley shows his scar from surgery after carpal tunnel syndrome left him unable to continue work at the Tesla factory in Fremont. He has been out of work for years. \u003ccite>(Emily Harger/Reveal)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Barraza said he and others hurt their backs through repetitive movements, but few complained because “supervisors would be like, ‘Oh, he’s just being a little bitch.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers’ accounts from 2017 didn’t sound much different from those who were injured years earlier. In 2014, Mark Eberley was diagnosed with Tesla-induced carpal tunnel syndrome. He wrecked his hand welding thousands of studs to car wheelhouses during nearly 12-hour days, he said. He needed surgery and was out of work and on workers’ compensation for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No matter what we were doing, it was hustle, hustle, hustle,” he said. “If you didn’t get your numbers, they’d be complaining to you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pressure could be crushing for white-collar workers as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At his office job at the Fremont factory, senior analyst Ali Khan prepared Tesla’s financial filings required by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. In 2016, the office was understaffed, and he worked at least 12 hours every day, he said – no weekends, holidays or days off at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pain from repetitive motion started in his wrists, radiated up his arms, then to his neck and back. He said he would have trouble holding a glass of water and couldn’t play with his 1-year-old daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khan said he asked for an ergonomic evaluation, but Tesla’s safety team told his manager they were too busy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My boss is telling me, ‘Oh, if you are going to take time off, it’s going to slow us down, it’s going to affect your reviews,'\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla eventually sent him to one of its preferred health clinics. A doctor there diagnosed him with work-related muscle strains and tendinitis, repeatedly prescribing painkillers and work restrictions, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4433386-Khan-Medical-Records.html\">medical records show\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That meant Khan had to be listed on Tesla’s injury logs. He wasn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khan said he still wasn’t allowed the doctor-ordered breaks. Forfeiting lucrative stock options, he submitted his resignation in August 2016. But his body hasn’t recovered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These things were preventable – that’s what makes me upset,” he said. “All of this could have been addressed, and it just wasn’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"ctx-article-root\">\u003c!-- -->\u003c/span> \u003cimg id=\"pixel-ping-tracker\" src=\"https://pixel.revealnews.org/pixel.gif?key=pixel.3rdrevnews.tesla-says-its-factory-is-safer-but-it-left-injuries-off-the-books.htkl4vtololw22goiwba\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\">\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Undercounting injuries is a symptom of a bigger problem: Tesla has put electric car manufacturing above safety concerns, former safety experts say.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1524009304,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":129,"wordCount":4970},"headData":{"title":"Tesla Says Its Factory Is Safer, but It Left Injuries Off the Books | KQED","description":"Undercounting injuries is a symptom of a bigger problem: Tesla has put electric car manufacturing above safety concerns, former safety experts say.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Tesla Says Its Factory Is Safer, but It Left Injuries Off the Books","datePublished":"2018-04-17T13:00:31.000Z","dateModified":"2018-04-17T23:55:04.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11662641 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11662641","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/04/17/tesla-says-its-factory-is-safer-but-it-left-injuries-off-the-books/","disqusTitle":"Tesla Says Its Factory Is Safer, but It Left Injuries Off the Books","source":"Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting","sourceUrl":"https://www.revealnews.org/","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2018/04/Evans2wayTesla.mp3","nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/author/willevans\" rel=\"author\">Will Evans\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/author/alyssa-jeong-perry\" rel=\"author\">Alyssa Jeong Perry\u003c/a>","path":"/news/11662641/tesla-says-its-factory-is-safer-but-it-left-injuries-off-the-books","audioDuration":260000,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, a nonprofit news organization based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Learn more at \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/\">revealnews.org\u003c/a> and subscribe to the Reveal podcast, produced with PRX, at \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/podcast\">revealnews.org/podcast\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">I\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>nside Tesla’s electric car factory, giant red robots – some named for X-Men characters – heave car parts in the air, while workers wearing black toil on aluminum car bodies. Forklifts and tuggers zip by on gray-painted floors, differentiated from pedestrian walkways by another shade of gray.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s one color, though, that some of Tesla’s former safety experts wanted to see more of: yellow – the traditional hue of caution used to mark hazards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concerned about bone-crunching collisions and the lack of clearly marked pedestrian lanes at the Fremont, California, plant, the general assembly line’s then-lead safety professional went to her boss, who she said told her, “Elon does not like the color yellow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The melding of cutting-edge technology and world-saving vision is Tesla Inc.’s big draw. Many, including Justine White, the safety lead, went to work there inspired by Elon Musk, a CEO with star power and now a\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/science/shortcuts/2018/feb/07/forget-the-car-in-space-why-elon-musks-reusable-rockets-are-more-than-a-publicity-stunt\"> groundbreaking rocket\u003c/a> in space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What she and some of her colleagues found, they said, was a chaotic factory floor where style and speed trumped safety. Musk’s name often was invoked to justify shortcuts and shoot down concerns, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under fire for mounting injuries, Tesla recently\u003ca href=\"https://www.tesla.com/blog/becoming-safest-car-factory-world\"> touted a sharp drop\u003c/a> in its injury rate for 2017, which it says came down to meet the auto industry average of about 6.2 injuries per 100 workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But things are not always as they seem at Tesla. An \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/article/tesla-says-its-factory-is-safer-but-it-left-injuries-off-the-books\">investigation\u003c/a> by \u003ca href=\"http://revealnews.org/\">Reveal\u003c/a> from The Center for Investigative Reporting found that Tesla has failed to report some of its serious injuries on legally mandated reports, making the company’s injury numbers look better than they actually are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11662656\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-employee-injury-rate-final-2-800x613.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"613\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-employee-injury-rate-final-2-800x613.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-employee-injury-rate-final-2-160x123.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-employee-injury-rate-final-2-1020x782.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-employee-injury-rate-final-2-1180x904.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-employee-injury-rate-final-2-960x736.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-employee-injury-rate-final-2-240x184.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-employee-injury-rate-final-2-375x287.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-employee-injury-rate-final-2-520x399.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-employee-injury-rate-final-2.png 1190w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last April, Tarik Logan suffered debilitating headaches from the fumes of a toxic glue he had to use at the plant. He texted his mom: “I’m n hella pain foreal something ain’t right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The searing pain became so unbearable he couldn’t work, and it plagued him for weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Logan’s inhalation injury, as it was diagnosed, never made it onto the official injury logs that state and federal law requires companies to keep. Neither did reports from other factory workers of sprains, strains and repetitive stress injuries from piecing together Tesla’s sleek cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, company officials labeled the injuries personal medical issues or minor incidents requiring only first aid, according to internal company records obtained by Reveal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Undercounting injuries is one symptom of a more fundamental problem at Tesla: The company has put its manufacturing of electric cars above safety concerns, according to five former members of its environment, health and safety team who left the company last year. That, they said, has put workers unnecessarily in harm’s way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point, White said she warned superiors about a potential explosion hazard but was told they would defer to production managers because fixing the problem would require stopping the production line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From September 2016 to January 2017, White oversaw safety for thousands of workers on Tesla’s general assembly line, in charge of responding to injuries, reviewing injury records, teaching safety classes and assessing the factory for hazards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything took a back seat to production,” White said. “It’s just a matter of time before somebody gets killed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla, worth about $50 billion, employs more than 10,000 workers at its Fremont factory. Alongside the company’s remarkable rise, workers have been sliced by machinery, crushed by forklifts, burned in electrical explosions and sprayed with molten metal. Tesla recorded \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4419499-Tesla-300A-2017.html\">722 injuries\u003c/a> last year, about two a day. The rate of serious injuries, requiring time off or a work restriction, was 30 percent worse than the previous year’s industry average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frantic growth, constant changes and lax rules, combined with a CEO whom senior managers were afraid to cross, created an atmosphere in which few dared to stand up for worker safety, the former environment, health and safety team members told Reveal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in addition to yellow, Musk was said to dislike too many signs in the factory and the warning beeps forklifts make when backing up, former team members said. His preferences, they said, were well known and led to cutting back on those standard safety signals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If someone said, ‘Elon doesn’t like something,’ you were concerned because you could lose your job,” said Susan Rigmaiden, former environmental compliance manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few months into her job, White became so alarmed that she \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4419515-Justine-Email-to-HR.html\">wrote\u003c/a> to a human resources manager that “the risk of injury is too high. People are getting hurt every day and near-hit incidents where people are getting almost crushed or hit by cars is unacceptable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day, she \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4416595-Justine-White-Email-to-Sam-Teller.html\">emailed\u003c/a> Sam Teller, Musk’s chief of staff, that safety team leaders were failing to address the hazards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know what can keep a person up at night regarding safety,” she wrote. “I must tell you that I can’t sleep here at Tesla.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she never heard back from Musk’s office. She transferred departments and quit a couple of months later, disillusioned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her March 2017 \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4437759-Resignation-Letter-Excerpt.html\">resignation letter,\u003c/a> White recounted the time she told her boss, Seth Woody, “that the plant layout was extremely dangerous to pedestrians.” Woody, head of the safety team, told her “that Elon didn’t want signs, anything yellow (like caution tape) or to wear safety shoes in the plant” and acknowledged it “was a mess,” she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She sent the letter directly to Musk and the head of human resources at the time – to no response, she said. Woody did not respond to inquiries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662661\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662661\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/031118_TESLA_DennisCruz_02-1024x683-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Tesla quality inspector Dennis Cruz has had a series of injuries that took him off the production line. At one point, living on workers’ compensation payments because of work-induced tendinitis, he ended up living in his car, unable to afford rent.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/031118_TESLA_DennisCruz_02-1024x683-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/031118_TESLA_DennisCruz_02-1024x683-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/031118_TESLA_DennisCruz_02-1024x683-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/031118_TESLA_DennisCruz_02-1024x683-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/031118_TESLA_DennisCruz_02-1024x683-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/031118_TESLA_DennisCruz_02-1024x683-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/031118_TESLA_DennisCruz_02-1024x683-520x347.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/031118_TESLA_DennisCruz_02-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tesla quality inspector Dennis Cruz has had a series of injuries that took him off the production line. At one point, living on workers’ compensation payments because of work-induced tendinitis, he ended up living in his car, unable to afford rent. \u003ccite>(Emily Harger/Reveal)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tesla officials dismissed all of White’s concerns as unsubstantiated. They insisted that the company records injuries accurately and cares deeply about the safety of its workers. As proof, company officials said a recent anonymous internal survey found 82 percent of employees agreed that “Tesla is committed to my health, safety and well-being.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before publication of this story, a Tesla spokesman sent a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4432415-Tesla-Statement.html\">statement\u003c/a> accusing Reveal of being a tool in an ongoing unionization drive and portraying “a completely false picture of Tesla and what it is actually like to work here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In our view, what they portray as investigative journalism is in fact an ideologically motivated attack by an extremist organization working directly with union supporters to create a calculated disinformation campaign against Tesla,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla’s spokesman also sent photos of rails and posts in the factory that were painted yellow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reveal interviewed more than three dozen current and former employees and managers and reviewed hundreds of pages of documents. Some of the workers who spoke to Reveal have supported the unionization effort, while many others – including safety professionals – had no involvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Chaotic Factory Floor\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On one hand, Tesla boasts state-of-the-art machinery that makes it “like working for Iron Man,” as one former employee described it. On the other, the company relied on hoists that weren’t engineered or inspected before they were used to lift heavy car parts, according to a former safety team member, resulting in repeated accidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662666\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662666\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent-800x529.jpg\" alt=\"At Tesla’s electric car factory in Fremont, CEO Elon Musk’s name often was invoked to justify shortcuts and shoot down safety concerns, former safety experts for the company say. \" width=\"800\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent-800x529.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent-1020x675.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent-1200x794.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent-1180x781.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent-960x635.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent-240x159.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent-375x248.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MuskLaunchEvent-520x344.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At Tesla’s electric car factory in Fremont, CEO Elon Musk’s name often was invoked to justify shortcuts and shoot down safety concerns, former safety experts for the company say. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The company is under immense pressure to ramp up manufacturing of the new Model 3 sedan, its first mass-market vehicle at $35,000. Musk initially said Tesla would be producing\u003ca href=\"https://mashable.com/2017/10/03/tesla-model-3-production-woes-analysis/#KH37hHQFemqw\"> 20,000 of them per month\u003c/a> by the end of 2017, but the company \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2018/04/03/tesla-misses-model-3-production-goal-once-again/?utm_term=.6679155b2d34\">just missed\u003c/a> its scaled-back promise to produce half that number.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla is often in a state of frenzied production. Former employees said they faced 12-hour workdays, faulty equipment and paltry training as they scrambled to come up with workarounds on the fly to get cars out the door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hustle meant that health and safety protocols could literally get left in the dust. Last year, construction workers cut through concrete to build the new Model 3 assembly line, spreading silica dust – which can cause cancer – without containing and testing it first, Rigmaiden and two other former members of the health and safety team said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the high stakes for life and limb, the safety professionals maintain safety training has been woefully inadequate. The company said all workers receive at least four days of training. But new employees often were pulled out of training early to fill spots on the factory floor, White and another former safety team member said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Team members were reluctant to speak to reporters, but said they agreed to in order to help improve conditions for current and future Tesla workers. Some asked to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals or hurting their careers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview, Tesla Chief People Officer Gaby Toledano, who joined the company in May, repeatedly questioned the motives of the former health and safety professionals and suggested they might have been “failing at their own job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toledano touted the hiring in October of Laurie Shelby as Tesla’s first vice president for environment, health and safety as an improvement in itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anybody who walks through our doors into this factory is our responsibility, and we care about them,” said Shelby, formerly safety vice president at aluminum manufacturer Alcoa. “I have a passion for safety and it’s about caring.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla disputed each of Reveal’s findings. The company said that it had no information that workers were exposed to silica dust and that it does regular air monitoring. It said that while some hoists did fail and injure workers, it was not due to a lack of engineering or inspections, and they have been improved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662669\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662669\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9143-1024x683-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Tesla officials Laurie Shelby (L) and Gaby Toledano read the concerns of then-safety lead Justine White, who emailed CEO Elon Musk’s chief of staff in 2016. “I know what can keep a person up at night regarding safety,” she wrote. “I must tell you that I can’t sleep here at Tesla.” Tesla says her concerns were unsubstantiated. \" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9143-1024x683-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9143-1024x683-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9143-1024x683-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9143-1024x683-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9143-1024x683-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9143-1024x683-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9143-1024x683-520x347.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9143-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tesla officials Laurie Shelby (L) and Gaby Toledano read the concerns of then-safety lead Justine White, who emailed CEO Elon Musk’s chief of staff in 2016. “I know what can keep a person up at night regarding safety,” she wrote. “I must tell you that I can’t sleep here at Tesla.” Tesla says her concerns were unsubstantiated. \u003ccite>(Paul Kuroda/Reveal)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Toledano and Shelby said they had never heard of Musk’s purported aesthetic preferences and pointed out that the factory does have some yellow. Both distanced themselves from what might have happened before their tenure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all injured workers have given up on Tesla, either. Dennis Cruz has had his share of injuries, yet he still wants to get back to the production line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point, out on workers’ compensation because of work-induced tendinitis, Cruz ended up living in his car, unable to afford rent. Then, in late 2016, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4436216-SDS-BM4601.html\">toxic\u003c/a> adhesive many workers complain about got in his eye, damaging his cornea. And in September, as a quality inspector, Cruz says he put out a fire that broke out on a car body, inhaling fumes from burning chemicals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cruz, 42, is on light duty as he struggles with shortness of breath, coughing spells and headaches. But he wants to provide for his family, apply his skills and get promoted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t do that on workers’ comp. I can’t do that away from the factory,” he said. “That’s why I push to go back. I push to go back into the fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Discrepancies in Injury Counts\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In Tesla’s internal injury tracking system, a supervisor wrote that a worker couldn’t come to work one day in February 2017 because “his left arm was in pain from installing Wiper motors during his shift.” One worker “fainted and hit head on floor” because “team member was working in a group setting and became uncomfortably hot.” Another employee, a supervisor noted, was “highly relied upon at this workstation” but injured her shoulder from repetitive motion due to an “Unfriendly Ergonomic Process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla is required by law to report every work-related injury that results in days away from work, job restrictions or medical treatment beyond first aid. But those injuries were labeled “personal medical” cases, meaning work had nothing to do with them. So they weren’t counted when Tesla tallied its injuries on legally mandated reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662683\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662683\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Y5I6227-1024x683-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"New Tesla employees learn how to use tools safely in a training session at the Fremont factory. State safety regulators have cited Tesla eight times since 2013 for deficient training, including twice in the last year. \" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Y5I6227-1024x683-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Y5I6227-1024x683-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Y5I6227-1024x683-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Y5I6227-1024x683-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Y5I6227-1024x683-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Y5I6227-1024x683-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Y5I6227-1024x683-520x347.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Y5I6227-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">New Tesla employees learn how to use tools safely in a training session at the Fremont factory. State safety regulators have cited Tesla eight times since 2013 for deficient training, including twice in the last year. \u003ccite>(Paul Kuroda/Reveal)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The list of the uncounted goes on. One worker had back spasms when reaching for boxes, one sprained her back carrying something to a work table and one got a pinch in his back from bending over to apply sealer and couldn’t walk off the pain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By law, if something at work contributed to an injury – even if work wasn’t the only cause – the injury \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/t8/14300_5.html\">must be counted\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A former Tesla safety professional, however, said the company systematically undercounted injuries by mislabeling them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I saw injuries on there like broken bones and lacerations that they were saying were not recordable” as injuries, said the safety professional, who asked to remain anonymous. “I saw a lot of stuff that was like, ‘Wow, this is crazy.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reveal compared records from Tesla’s internal tracking system, obtained from a source, with the official logs, which were requested by an employee and provided to Reveal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a dozen examples provided to the company by Reveal, Tesla stood by its decision to not count them. It said workers may have thought they were injured because of their jobs, and supervisors may have assumed the same. But later, Tesla said, a medical professional – sometimes contracted or affiliated with the company – determined there was no connection to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel very strongly,” Shelby said. “We are doing proper recordkeeping here at Tesla.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reveal also provided Tesla’s internal descriptions of the injuries, along with the company’s case-by-case response, to Doug Parker, executive director of Worksafe, an Oakland-based organization that \u003ca href=\"http://worksafe.typepad.com/files/worksafe_tesla5_24.pdf\">previously analyzed\u003c/a> Tesla’s official injury logs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The examples you’ve given me are concerning, troubling,” he said. “They suggest that Tesla isn’t reporting all the workplace injuries that they should be reporting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen to the podcast:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/429374469&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health has cited Tesla for more than 40 violations since 2013. Tesla’s rate of serious injuries that required time off or job restrictions was\u003ca href=\"http://worksafe.org/file_download/inline/83a169a1-2af7-4c2e-81a5-21b6965ff996\"> 83 percent higher\u003c/a> than the industry in 2016. Since then, however, Tesla says it has turned things around on its way to “\u003ca href=\"https://www.tesla.com/blog/becoming-safest-car-factory-world\">becoming the safest car factory in the world\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Musk claimed in a \u003ca href=\"https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/24/elon-musk-addresses-working-condition-claims-in-tesla-staff-wide-email/\">staffwide email\u003c/a> and at a \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/06/06/elon-musk-says-tesla-is-on-its-way-to-lowering-employees-injury-rate/\">shareholder meeting\u003c/a> that the company’s injury rate was much better than the industry average. A company \u003ca href=\"https://www.tesla.com/blog/creating-the-safest-car-factory-in-the-world\">blog post\u003c/a> said that to be average would be “to go backwards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then Tesla apparently did hit reverse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our 2017 data showed that we are at industry average, so we’re happy about that,” Shelby said, explaining the earlier claims as a “snapshot in time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Musk also \u003ca href=\"https://electrek.co/2017/06/02/elon-musk-tesla-injury-factory/\">emailed\u003c/a> his staff last year saying he was meeting weekly with the safety team and “would like to meet every injured person as soon as they are well, so that I can understand from them exactly what we need to do to make it better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toledano said Musk did meet with some injured workers, but no longer meets weekly with the safety team because it isn’t necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now I can’t claim he’s met with every injured worker,” she said. “I think that’s absurd.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several former members of the environment, health and safety team said they had other reasons to doubt Tesla’s official numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company, for example, didn’t always count injuries among the plant’s temporary workers, they said. Tesla fills some of its factory positions with temp workers who later may be offered permanent jobs. Companies must count those injuries if they supervise the temps, as Tesla does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the law,” agreed Tesla’s Shelby. “Based on my review of our data, we’ve always done that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662689\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662689\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9150-1024x683-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Laurie Shelby, Tesla’s vice president for environment, health and safety, points to the principles of her department listed on a placard at the car plant in Fremont.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9150-1024x683-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9150-1024x683-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9150-1024x683-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9150-1024x683-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9150-1024x683-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9150-1024x683-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9150-1024x683-520x347.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/B82I9150-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laurie Shelby, Tesla’s vice president for environment, health and safety, points to the principles of her department listed on a placard at the car plant in Fremont. \u003ccite>(Paul Kuroda/Reveal)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At one point, though, White said she asked her supervisor why the injury rate seemed off, and he told her they weren’t counting temp worker injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They knew they were reporting incorrect numbers,” White said. “Those workers were being injured on the floor and that wasn’t being captured, and they knew that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla began to fix that problem in 2017, former employees said, but it’s unclear how consistently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11662690\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final-800x537.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final-800x537.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final-160x107.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final-1020x684.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final-1200x805.png 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final-1180x792.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final-960x644.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final-240x161.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final-375x252.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final-520x349.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/tesla-factory-injury-rate-final.png 1592w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After workers requested the company’s injury logs last year, Tesla\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4419502-Tesla-300A-2016-Amended.html\"> amended\u003c/a> its\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4419503-Tesla-300A-2016-initial.html\"> original\u003c/a> 2016 report to add 135 injuries that hadn’t been counted previously. The company said it changed the numbers after it discovered injuries that hadn’t been shared with Tesla by its temp agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Toxic Workplace Chemicals\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In April 2017, Tarik Logan – a temporary worker – was assigned to patch parts in Tesla’s battery packs with Henkel Loctite AA H3500. The powerful adhesive includes \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2016-09/documents/methyl-methacrylate.pdf\">toxic chemicals\u003c/a> that can cause \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4433392-LoctiteH3500-SDS-1808799.html\">allergic reactions and even genetic defects\u003c/a>. Logan and a former co-worker said they went through more than 100 tubes of the glue a day without adequate ventilation or protection from the fumes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First it brought dizziness, then headaches – the worst pain he’s ever felt, Logan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s a strong person,” said Toni Porter, his mother. “For him to cry out, it was terrifying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla referred Logan, then 23, to a medical clinic that diagnosed an “acute reaction to car adhesive glue causing headaches, dizziness, and some respiratory discomfort.” The doctor gave him prescription-strength painkillers and told him to avoid the glue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My head still hurt tho,” he texted Porter. “This Shit hurrrrrts!!!!!!!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These texts are among those sent by Tarik Logan to his mother, Toni Porter, while Logan worked at the Tesla factory in Fremont, California in April 2017:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11662690\" src=\"https://www.revealnews.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/texts34.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"537\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He missed work and ended up at the hospital multiple times, Logan and Porter said. Then Tesla declined to take him on as a permanent employee, citing attendance issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla, in response to Reveal’s inquiries, said it doesn’t agree with the doctor’s determination that Logan’s pain was work-related. In any case, Tesla said, it doesn’t count as an injury because it didn’t require any medical treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By law, however, just the prescription of pain medication – documented in medical records obtained by Reveal – \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/standardinterpretations/2007-02-06-1\">requires\u003c/a> that his injury be counted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Logan handled only a very small amount of the chemical and exposure levels were within standards, Tesla stated. The company also said Logan didn’t complain about headaches until he told a doctor a month later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That statement is contradicted by medical records and internal company records, which show that Logan’s supervisor put it in Tesla’s injury tracking system and Logan was diagnosed by a doctor a week after his headaches started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former safety team member who asked to remain anonymous said Tesla told workers that their reactions to workplace chemicals were personal medical problems instead of treating them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have employees at work that don’t know what they’re being exposed to, and nobody’s taking care of them,” the safety professional said. “It’s heartbreaking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662701\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662701\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_05-1024x679-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Eberley, 48, was diagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome in 2014. He injured his hand welding thousands of studs to car wheelhouses during nearly 12-hour days at Tesla.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_05-1024x679-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_05-1024x679-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_05-1024x679-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_05-1024x679-960x637.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_05-1024x679-240x159.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_05-1024x679-375x249.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_05-1024x679-520x345.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_05-1024x679.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Eberley, 48, was diagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome in 2014. He injured his hand welding thousands of studs to car wheelhouses during nearly 12-hour days at Tesla. \u003ccite>(Emily Harger/Reveal)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One worker is described in internal records as having gone to Tesla’s nurse “expressing concerns with the fumes in the area. Saying he feels like he is dying.” It was marked a personal medical issue, with a note that stated, “Beyond my skillset.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shelby, the safety vice president, said Tesla checks thoroughly for chemical exposures and “nowhere are we over any of the exposure limits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, regulators \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4390644-Inspection-1268303-Citations-Copy.html\">cited\u003c/a> the company for failing to “effectively assess the workplace” for chemical hazards, which Tesla is appealing.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Thrown to the Wolves’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If Tesla has been improving, it wasn’t fast enough for Alaa Alkhafagi, who joined Tesla in 2017 as an engineering technician servicing robots that spray paint on car bodies. Alkhafagi said he received no safety instruction specific to the paint department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, Alkhafagi, 27, said he was told to go underneath the painting booth to clear excess paint from a clogged hose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unsure of how to get down there, workers would pry up a piece of the metal flooring and jump in, he said. When he did, Alkhafagi’s foot got stuck in paint, his hand slipped and he fell forward, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4436269-Alkhafagi-Injury.html\">smashing\u003c/a> his head and arm. He ended up unable to make a fist or go back to his job, filing a workers’ compensation claim, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident didn’t end up on Tesla’s official injury logs. The company said it wasn’t recorded because Alkhafagi initially received only first aid. But his inability to go back to his normal work duties would mean that the injury should have been counted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s more than the accident,” Alkhafagi said. “They haven’t trained anyone properly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla said that after his injury, the company made sure only specially trained workers did that job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lack of adequate training was a problem throughout the factory, said Roger Croney, who oversaw workers in three different departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New employees with no factory experience were sent to Tesla’s die-casting operation – where aluminum is melted and molded into parts – without basic training specific to the job, said Croney, former associate manager in that department. Some didn’t know they’d be working with 1,200-degree molten metal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was far different from the General Motors plant in Ohio where Croney had worked for eight years, he said. So Croney took it upon himself to develop his own training program. A blast of liquid metal had burned his face and hands not long after he came to Tesla in 2012, and he took safety seriously. But other supervisors didn’t, Croney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662702\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662702\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AJ53579-1024x683-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Roger Croney oversaw workers in three different departments at Tesla. He took it upon himself to develop his own training program for new employees, whom he said were sometimes sent to work with no factory experience or basic training specific to the job. \" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AJ53579-1024x683-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AJ53579-1024x683-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AJ53579-1024x683-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AJ53579-1024x683-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AJ53579-1024x683-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AJ53579-1024x683-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AJ53579-1024x683-520x347.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/AJ53579-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roger Croney oversaw workers in three different departments at Tesla. He took it upon himself to develop his own training program for new employees, whom he said were sometimes sent to work with no factory experience or basic training specific to the job. \u003ccite>(AJ Mast/Reveal)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“A lot of workers come in and they get thrown to the wolves,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Croney quit in March 2017 with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4432391-Roger-Croney-Resignation-Letter.html\">letter\u003c/a> alleging a pattern of discriminatory treatment. Croney, who is black, said he was passed over repeatedly by white people with less experience and then demoted to a supervisor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Tesla said Croney didn’t mention racial discrimination in his letter or exit interview. Croney has a pending claim of racial discrimination at Tesla with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State safety regulators have cited Tesla eight times since 2013 for deficient training, including twice in the last year, according to a Reveal review of records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla defended its training regimen, saying all new production employees get a day of orientation, a day of classroom instruction and two days of hands-on training in which they’re shown how to hold and use tools while avoiding injury. Workers building the Model 3 get an additional two days of virtual training on computers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Four days is pretty intensive,” Toledano said, “and then there’s ongoing training, so training is central.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Repetitive Stress Injuries\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Acknowledging that repetitive stress injuries are the most common way workers get hurt there, Tesla officials emphasize ergonomic improvements to the new Model 3 assembly line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We actually redesigned it so it’s safer for our employees to make,” Shelby said. “It’s super cool to see when it’s on the line how much easier it is to make the Model 3.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla, however, wouldn’t let reporters see that assembly line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662703\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662703\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory-800x528.jpg\" alt=\"Inside Tesla’s electric car factory in Fremont, the company is under immense pressure to ramp up production of the new Model 3 sedan, its first mass-market vehicle at $35,000.\" width=\"800\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory-800x528.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory-1020x673.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory-1200x791.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory-1180x778.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory-960x633.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory-240x158.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory-375x247.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/TeslaFactory-520x343.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inside Tesla’s electric car factory in Fremont, the company is under immense pressure to ramp up production of the new Model 3 sedan, its first mass-market vehicle at $35,000. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When building Tesla’s other cars, former workers said they had to sacrifice their bodies to save time. Some workers, for example, lifted heavy car seats over their shoulders because the mechanical assists designed to ease the load were too slow, said Joel Barraza, a former production associate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People would carry a seat because they’d be like, ‘Oh, I gotta get this done.’ I personally carried a seat,” Barraza said. “They’re supposed to move. Move it on, move it on, keep the line going.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White, the former safety lead, also said workers sometimes lifted seats manually, but Tesla, in a statement, said it doesn’t happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barraza said he was fired along with hundreds of other workers last fall. Tesla said employees were\u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/10/13/4819750/\"> terminated en masse\u003c/a> due to performance issues, though some workers have argued they were \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/17/tesla-firings-former-and-current-employees-allege-layoffs.html\">cost-cutting layoffs\u003c/a> or used to \u003ca href=\"http://www.autonews.com/article/20171026/OEM01/171029793/tesla-uaw-labor-dispute-california\">punish union supporters\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662704\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11662704\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_03-1024x682-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Eberley shows his scar from surgery after carpal tunnel syndrome left him unable to continue work at the Tesla factory in Fremont. He has been out of work for years. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_03-1024x682-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_03-1024x682-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_03-1024x682-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_03-1024x682-960x639.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_03-1024x682-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_03-1024x682-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_03-1024x682-520x346.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/032018_Tesla_MarkEberley_03-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Eberley shows his scar from surgery after carpal tunnel syndrome left him unable to continue work at the Tesla factory in Fremont. He has been out of work for years. \u003ccite>(Emily Harger/Reveal)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Barraza said he and others hurt their backs through repetitive movements, but few complained because “supervisors would be like, ‘Oh, he’s just being a little bitch.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers’ accounts from 2017 didn’t sound much different from those who were injured years earlier. In 2014, Mark Eberley was diagnosed with Tesla-induced carpal tunnel syndrome. He wrecked his hand welding thousands of studs to car wheelhouses during nearly 12-hour days, he said. He needed surgery and was out of work and on workers’ compensation for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No matter what we were doing, it was hustle, hustle, hustle,” he said. “If you didn’t get your numbers, they’d be complaining to you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pressure could be crushing for white-collar workers as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At his office job at the Fremont factory, senior analyst Ali Khan prepared Tesla’s financial filings required by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. In 2016, the office was understaffed, and he worked at least 12 hours every day, he said – no weekends, holidays or days off at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pain from repetitive motion started in his wrists, radiated up his arms, then to his neck and back. He said he would have trouble holding a glass of water and couldn’t play with his 1-year-old daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khan said he asked for an ergonomic evaluation, but Tesla’s safety team told his manager they were too busy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My boss is telling me, ‘Oh, if you are going to take time off, it’s going to slow us down, it’s going to affect your reviews,'\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla eventually sent him to one of its preferred health clinics. A doctor there diagnosed him with work-related muscle strains and tendinitis, repeatedly prescribing painkillers and work restrictions, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4433386-Khan-Medical-Records.html\">medical records show\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That meant Khan had to be listed on Tesla’s injury logs. He wasn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khan said he still wasn’t allowed the doctor-ordered breaks. Forfeiting lucrative stock options, he submitted his resignation in August 2016. But his body hasn’t recovered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These things were preventable – that’s what makes me upset,” he said. “All of this could have been addressed, and it just wasn’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"ctx-article-root\">\u003c!-- -->\u003c/span> \u003cimg id=\"pixel-ping-tracker\" src=\"https://pixel.revealnews.org/pixel.gif?key=pixel.3rdrevnews.tesla-says-its-factory-is-safer-but-it-left-injuries-off-the-books.htkl4vtololw22goiwba\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\">\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11662641/tesla-says-its-factory-is-safer-but-it-left-injuries-off-the-books","authors":["byline_news_11662641"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_1758","news_457","news_6188","news_8","news_248","news_1397"],"tags":["news_3897","news_19542","news_66","news_19904","news_5555","news_22456","news_57","news_17041","news_21564","news_19377"],"featImg":"news_11662672","label":"source_news_11662641"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. 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