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At SpaceX, worker injuries soar in Elon Musk's rush to Mars

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Re: At SpaceX, worker injuries soar in Elon Musk's rush to Mars

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Post by jasfi »

I've always thought making people work long hours, repeatedly, would have a negative impact on their health. These injuries are far worse than I expected, but then I was only thinking about a desk job.

I love what SpaceX and Tesla are doing, but it's difficult to be an Elon fan when people are being seriously hurt because of bad policies.

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Post by robertlagrant »

dwighttk wrote: post #3

> Other major space companies have also failed to report annual injury data to OSHA in some recent years. This is all about higher than average injury rates at SpaceX, but just tucks this in after comparing the injury rates

I don't know the reality; it's awful for people involved in these accidents, disappointing if it is as cavalier as it's being painted, but it does also feel like I'm being told a version of events by the attorney for the plaintiff, rather than an impartial fact-contextualiser.

Re: At SpaceX, worker injuries soar in Elon Musk's rush to Mars

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Post by robertlagrant »

FrustratedMonky wrote: post #5

In a lot of US manufacturing plants, this stuff would get you fired. How does SpaceX get to skirt regulations?

Happy to be corrected here with citations, but I'm not sure that regulations are actually what get people fired. It's company policy.
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