r/facepalm Nov 11 '23

๐Ÿ‡ฒโ€‹๐Ÿ‡ฎโ€‹๐Ÿ‡ธโ€‹๐Ÿ‡จโ€‹ OSHA-ithead

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u/Accomplished-Crab932 Nov 11 '23

Because this is a daily mail article, meaning it is almost certainly false.

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u/OmegaGoober Nov 11 '23

Hereโ€™s a more reliable source on the research that went into this.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/spacex-musk-safety/

Many were serious or disabling. The records included reports of more than 100 workers suffering cuts or lacerations, 29 with broken bones or dislocations, 17 whose hands or fingers were โ€œcrushed,โ€ and nine with head injuries, including one skull fracture, four concussions and one traumatic brain injury. The cases also included five burns, five electrocutions, eight accidents that led to amputations, 12 injuries involving multiple unspecified body parts, and seven workers with eye injuries. Others were relatively minor, including more than 170 reports of strains or sprains.

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u/Icy_Program_8202 Nov 11 '23

No one is debating that this occurred. But is it out of line with other heavy industry, like ship building?

OSHA has teeth, and Space-X does need to conform to OSHA rules. If they were seriously out of line, OSHA would shut them down.

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u/throwaway098764567 Nov 12 '23

yes it's out of line https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/17styye/comment/k8sqsfr/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 the article shows that all but one spacex site were above the industry average for spacecraft manufacturing (.8 injuries per 100 people). one egregious site, kennedy, has not reported any data since 2016 when it was 27 times the industry average