SpaceX Neglects With Employee Safety To Injury Level Soar

JAKARTA SpaceX's security, Elon Musk's commercial space company, has reportedly experienced a decline by Reuters. There are hundreds of cases of injuries that the company appears to be hiding.

This report is supported by statements by employees and former employees who Reuters gathered. According to them, Musk was too aggressive to pursue human landing projects on Mars, ignoring the appropriate bureaucracy and protocols.

There are more than 600 injuries that have not been publicly reported since 2014. In fact, the average injury rate in some SpaceX facilities is much higher than other industrial facilities, which is 0.8 injuries or illnesses among 100 workers.

At the SpaceX facility in Brownsville, the injury rate reaches 4.8 per 100 workers in 2022. Meanwhile, in manufacturing facilities, the rate reaches 1.8 and in McGregor it reaches 2.7.

So far, the series of injuries experienced by employees are fractures, lacerations, shattered fingers, burns, electric shocks, head injuries, and blindness. In fact, Reuters reports also noted that employees in Francisco have been in a coma since January 2022.

In 2014, one of the employees at McGregor named totaling LeBlanc was killed by the wind causing him to fall from the truck trailer. However, SpaceX seemed reluctant to compensate for LeBlanc's death as the company only paid the Job Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) worth 7,000 US dollars (Rp109 million).

Of the two dozen employees and former employees questioned by Reuters, one of SpaceX's former managers said that, "Workers keep their own safety."

This means that the safety at Musk's company is so bad that they cannot maintain the safety of their employees. SpaceX's indications of negligence can also be seen from the failed injury data repeatedly reported to regulators.