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"We couldn't believe that it was almost like past our feet, the sewage and we even asked like 'Are we gonna shut it down? This is ridiculous.'" Duran said on the podcast."They were like: 'No, no we need to keep running. This is not going to stop a line.'"
The ex-Tesla worker said the company made a pathway that the workers could walk on over the raw sewage. Duran and three other Tesla employees originallyabout the incident in 2018. At the time, a spokesperson for Tesla told Insider that the company was not aware of any instances in which managers told workers to walk through sewage.
Duran told The Verge he worked for Tesla for five years before he left the company. During that time, he said he worked through a fire and saw a man's leg crushed by a car on the assembly line. Duran has since become vocal about his experience at the factory and called the carmaker a"modern day sweatshop" in ahe filmed with the More Perfect Union in 2021.
"Nothing is more important to us than the safety of our employees," A Tesla representative told Insider when Bloomberg first published Duran and other worker's safety complaints in 2018."This is not to say that there aren't real issues that need to be dealt with at Tesla or that we've made no mistakes with any of the 40,000 people who work at our company.
Another former Tesla employee, Melvin Berry, said Musk was on a short fuse during the early stages of Model 3 production ramp-up which the"Let's say you dropped something, let's say you do something wrong, you get fired on the spot because Elon is coming out of a room looking down at you," Berry said of his experience at the company in 2015 and 2016.
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