The Labor Department initially sided with tech companies to block the data, but released it after Reveal filed a lawsuit.
Will Evans
Senior Reporter and Producer
Will Evans is a senior reporter and producer for Reveal, covering labor and tech. His reporting has prompted government investigations, legislation, reforms and prosecutions. A series on working conditions at Amazon warehouses was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize and won a Gerald Loeb Award. His work has also won multiple Investigative Reporters and Editors Awards, including for a series on safety problems at Tesla. Other investigations have exposed secret spying at Uber, illegal discrimination in the temp industry and rampant fraud in California's drug rehab system for the poor. Prior to joining The Center for Investigative Reporting in 2005, Evans was a reporter at The Sacramento Bee. He is based in Reveal's Emeryville, California, office.
Posted inInsult to Injury, Workers’ Rights
California officials grill Tesla on safety problems exposed in Reveal investigation
The electric carmaker’s top safety executive made several misleading statements to a state board that doles out lucrative tax exemptions.
Posted inInequality, Silicon Valley Diversity
We got the government to reverse its longtime policy to get Silicon Valley diversity data
For years, the Labor Department has allowed federal contractors to block public records requests for their demographics by calling them trade secrets.
Posted inInsult to Injury, Worked Over
A user’s guide to Tesla’s worker safety problems
Everything you need to know to get caught up on the long-running issues at Tesla’s Silicon Valley factory.
Posted inInsult to Injury
Inside Tesla’s factory, a medical clinic designed to ignore injured workers
The clinic’s practices are unsafe and unethical, five former clinic employees said.
Posted inInsult to Injury
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Working through the pain at Tesla
After being called out for hiding worker injuries at its factory, Tesla decides to double down. Plus, a report card on diversity in Silicon Valley.
Posted inInequality, Kids on the Line
Lawmaker on center for immigrant kids: ‘We cannot allow this house of horrors to continue to operate’
Twenty-five children continue to be held at Shiloh Treatment Center, which has documented cases of child deaths and serial abuse.
Posted inKids on the Line
Federal agency sent immigrant kids to dangerous youth facility, despite warning signs
Just as Texas stopped sending foster children to centers operated by one man, the U.S. government tossed him a new source of money: immigrant kids.
Posted inImpact, Insult to Injury, Worked Over, Workers’ Rights
Tesla fired safety official for reporting unsafe conditions, lawsuit says
A former Tesla safety director’s suit says he was fired for reporting unsafe working conditions such as chemical exposures and fires at the company.
Posted inInsult to Injury, Techsploitation, Workers’ Rights
Musk claims Tesla’s safety record is better than average, despite data
Elon Musk claims: “Tesla factory safety has improved every safety has improved every year & is now better than industry avg.” But that’s not true.