A former Tesla employee claims he was fired after raising complaints about how the extreme heat of his work environment was causing his hearing aids to malfunction.

The man, Hans Kohls, made the allegations in a lawsuit against the Elon Musk owned automaker, which was filed Monday and obtained by The Independent.

Kohls, who is deaf, previously worked at Tesla’s enormous Gigafactory in Austin, Texas, where he was given a job melting aluminum at 1,220 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the reporting. The “extreme heat and moisture” of the casting department, which “far exceed standard industrial heat levels,” the lawsuit said, caused his hearing aids to fail, something that was not only a massive inconvenience, but dangerous: it would be impossible for Kohl to hear alarms and other safety al

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