The news wire’s analysis came from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s 2023 newly released records from SpaceX, the most comprehensive yet from the Elon Musk-owned company that builds rockets for NASA.
In 2022, Reuters notes, the company only gave injury reports from five facilities, and before that, it didn’t provide any records of the kind at all, which makes it hard to parse just how longstanding the issue is.
A unit that retrieves its spent rocket boosters from the Pacific Ocean, meanwhile, had 7.6 injuries per 100 employees, which is more than nine times the industry average of 0.8.
Building off Reuters’ prior reporting on more than 600 previously undisclosed SpaceX worker injuries from last year, these figures are troubling enough on their own.
Now an occupational health professor at the George Washington University, Michaels told Reuters that “NASA should be concerned about the quality of the work” if SpaceX’s injury rates are this high.
Even its East Coast rocket recovery team, which serves the same purpose as its West Coast counterpart by retrieving rocket boosters from the Atlantic, had significantly fewer injuries per 100 workers than both that team and the Brownsville factory’s, while its Redmond, Washington factory came in with just 1.5 injuries per 100 workers, the lowest of the bunch.
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The news wire’s analysis came from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s 2023 newly released records from SpaceX, the most comprehensive yet from the Elon Musk-owned company that builds rockets for NASA.
In 2022, Reuters notes, the company only gave injury reports from five facilities, and before that, it didn’t provide any records of the kind at all, which makes it hard to parse just how longstanding the issue is.
A unit that retrieves its spent rocket boosters from the Pacific Ocean, meanwhile, had 7.6 injuries per 100 employees, which is more than nine times the industry average of 0.8.
Building off Reuters’ prior reporting on more than 600 previously undisclosed SpaceX worker injuries from last year, these figures are troubling enough on their own.
Now an occupational health professor at the George Washington University, Michaels told Reuters that “NASA should be concerned about the quality of the work” if SpaceX’s injury rates are this high.
Even its East Coast rocket recovery team, which serves the same purpose as its West Coast counterpart by retrieving rocket boosters from the Atlantic, had significantly fewer injuries per 100 workers than both that team and the Brownsville factory’s, while its Redmond, Washington factory came in with just 1.5 injuries per 100 workers, the lowest of the bunch.
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