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NEW DELHI: SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s hatred for bright colours has put its workers’ lives at risk, according to Reuters.
As per the new investigation, Elon Musk, during his visit to the SpaceX facility in Hawthorne, Texas, asked his employees to not wear the safety vests as he disliked bright colours, posted the New York Post.
The companies also failed to separate the areas for safety measures due to which the workers sometime walk too close to the dangerous areas.
According to the investigation, there are around 600 workers, who were injured while working at SpaceX since 2014.
One undocumented incident took place in 2014 when a new employee and his co-workers were tasked with transporting foam insulation to the company’s main hangar but didn’t have straps to secure it.
Former Marine Lonnie LeBlanc decided to use his weight to hold down the foam by sitting on top it in the back of a truck’s trailer, but a gust of wind knocked him off, sending him headfirst into the pavement, where he was pronounced dead.
SpaceX had failed to protect LeBlanc from a clear hazard, as the employees had no convenient access to “tie-downs” and no process or oversight for transporting the cargo, as per the new investigation by the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
The relaxed safety culture comes as Musk is gearing up to land his space crafts on Mars to save the human race.
“Elon’s concept that SpaceX is on this mission to go to Mars as fast as possible and save humanity permeates every part of the company,” Tom Moline, a former SpaceX senior avionics engineer said.
“The company justifies casting aside anything that could stand in the way of accomplishing that goal, including worker safety.”
Moline was part of a group of nine employees fired in the summer of 2022 after they wrote an open letter raising workplace complaints against Musk’s “harmful behavior” on social media.
Another aspect of safety allegedly overlooked by the company is the amount of hours an employee works a week as employees work “grueling hours trying to meet Musk’s deadlines.”
At points, employees slept overnight at the facility to work upwards of 80 hours a week, the New York Post noted.
In an attempt to speed up work while cutting costs, the company manufactured rocket parts inside tents near a Gulf of Mexico beach, with workers welding in temperatures over 100 degrees.
As per the new investigation, Elon Musk, during his visit to the SpaceX facility in Hawthorne, Texas, asked his employees to not wear the safety vests as he disliked bright colours, posted the New York Post.
The companies also failed to separate the areas for safety measures due to which the workers sometime walk too close to the dangerous areas.
According to the investigation, there are around 600 workers, who were injured while working at SpaceX since 2014.
One undocumented incident took place in 2014 when a new employee and his co-workers were tasked with transporting foam insulation to the company’s main hangar but didn’t have straps to secure it.
Former Marine Lonnie LeBlanc decided to use his weight to hold down the foam by sitting on top it in the back of a truck’s trailer, but a gust of wind knocked him off, sending him headfirst into the pavement, where he was pronounced dead.
SpaceX had failed to protect LeBlanc from a clear hazard, as the employees had no convenient access to “tie-downs” and no process or oversight for transporting the cargo, as per the new investigation by the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
The relaxed safety culture comes as Musk is gearing up to land his space crafts on Mars to save the human race.
“Elon’s concept that SpaceX is on this mission to go to Mars as fast as possible and save humanity permeates every part of the company,” Tom Moline, a former SpaceX senior avionics engineer said.
“The company justifies casting aside anything that could stand in the way of accomplishing that goal, including worker safety.”
Moline was part of a group of nine employees fired in the summer of 2022 after they wrote an open letter raising workplace complaints against Musk’s “harmful behavior” on social media.
Another aspect of safety allegedly overlooked by the company is the amount of hours an employee works a week as employees work “grueling hours trying to meet Musk’s deadlines.”
At points, employees slept overnight at the facility to work upwards of 80 hours a week, the New York Post noted.
In an attempt to speed up work while cutting costs, the company manufactured rocket parts inside tents near a Gulf of Mexico beach, with workers welding in temperatures over 100 degrees.
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