SAN FRANCISCO -- For years, Tesla Inc. has refuted issues about employee security at its foremost meeting plant by describing opinions from a California regulator as vindication.

However new paperwork and statements from the company contradict these claims.

Tesla omitted a whole lot of accidents that the corporate listed in logs at its manufacturing unit from annual abstract knowledge that the corporate sends to the federal government, in accordance with a memorandum the states workplace-safety company despatched in December. Californias Division of Occupational Security and Well being, or Cal/OSHA, additionally hit Tesla with a quotation that month for failing to correctly report different accidents in its logs since 2015.

The paperwork, a few of which have been obtained by means of a public-records request, undermine statements Tesla executives have made about its plant in Fremont, Calif. CEO Elon Musk devoted a portion of an October 2018 earnings name to transient buyers about workplace-safety efforts. He mentioned Cal/OSHA had investigated the corporate and...