SAN FRANCISCO — A former Tesla Inc. building supervisor has filed a lawsuit towards the EV firm alleging he was fired for reporting widespread security violations and race discrimination at Tesla’s factories.

Within the lawsuit filed with Alameda County Superior Court docket on Friday, Marc Cage, an African American, claimed to have reported security violations that risked huge explosions at Tesla’s battery manufacturing facility in Nevada and systematic failures by the corporate to reveal critical on-the-job accidents.

“Tesla’s commitments to unrealistic manufacturing targets and frantic efforts to ramp up its manufacturing, usually to make good on rash guarantees, overrode any dedication to worker security,” the grievance says.

He additionally alleged that Tesla workers, with the complete information of the corporate’s administration, denigrated and harassed him on the premise of his race.

“Nearly each restroom in Tesla’s Fremont facility contained writings or carvings of racist symbols and slurs, together with swastikas and outstanding shows of the n-word,” Cage mentioned in his grievance.

Tesla didn’t instantly reply to a request for touch upon the lawsuit.

A California state company earlier this month sued Tesla over allegations by some Black employees that they had been subjected to racist slurs and drawings and assigned probably the most bodily demanding jobs at Tesla’s manufacturing facility in Fremont, Calif.

That lawsuit, which Tesla mentioned was “misguided,” mentioned the corporate tolerated racial discrimination, including to claims made in a number of different lawsuits towards the world’s most respected automaker.

Tesla and CEO Elon Musk have escalated a battle with regulators who’ve scrutinized his social media posts, the corporate’s remedy of its employees and its testing of semi-automated driving programs on public roads.

Musk on Tuesday accused the U.S. Securities and Alternate Fee of being a multi-layered “corruption onion.” A day earlier, the corporate had accused the company of leaking info from a Tesla-related probe.

Tesla disclosed earlier this month that it had obtained a subpoena from the SEC about its compliance with a 2018 settlement over Musk’s tweets about taking the corporate personal.

Final week, the corporate and Musk accused the SEC of harassing them with an investigation to punish Musk for being an outspoken critic of the federal government.