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submitted 11 months ago by bedrooms@kbin.social to c/news@lemmy.world

Three U.S. lawmakers are calling for greater scrutiny of worker safety at Elon Musk's SpaceX following a Reuters investigation that documented hundreds of injuries at the rocket company's U.S. manufacturing and launch sites.

The Nov. 10 Reuters report detailed at least 600 previously unreported workplace injuries since 2014 at SpaceX including crushed limbs, amputations, head injuries and one death.

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[-] girlfreddy@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Same-source article posted 22 hrs ago. Please remove this.

[-] Cjwii@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

Are you a cop or something

[-] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Probably works for Elon.

[-] hh93@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

There was a report about the Tesla factory in Germany having an insane injury rate a couple of months ago

Seems like the Elon guy doesn't really care about the people working for him

this post was submitted on 19 Nov 2023
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